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I have to commend Linus for how he handles these things, and I agree with what was said in the video.
 
I also have to add a personal admission/apology to Linus for my own past behavior on the forum. I very harshly criticized LTT for running this video a year and a half ago, a criticism to which Linus responded directly in a very similar drama-response-webcam-address. And while I stand by my negative opinion of the video itself, and from a channel quality standpoint I wish LTT never uploaded it, I jumped to conclusions and roasted Linus with totally conjectory statements - even while respecting Linus enormously for how far he went as a person since I started watching, for how far he's taken LTT with the talent he's brought on along the way, and for the many instances he demonstrated personal integrity that I admire. I was too willing to see LTT as a big machine that had essentially taken on a mind of its own and was no longer a direct extension of Linus's ideal content creation platform. I had no basis for reaching that conclusion except that LTT had grown and its content had changed accordingly. I should have either communicated with Linus directly or have shut up.
 
I was wrong to have said what I said, and I regretted it as soon as Linus read my comment in his video response. As time has gone on I've become more and more careful to moderate my initial reaction to new information before running off with my own (or others') flawed assumptions, to give the benefit of the doubt, and to talk to people directly before making judgments in drama-laden situations like this. It makes life better and easier for everyone.

I have to commend Linus for how he handles these things, and I agree with what was said in the video.
 
I also have to add a personal admission/apology to Linus for my own past behavior on the forum. I very harshly criticized LTT for running this video a year and a half ago, a criticism to which Linus responded directly in a very similar drama-response-webcam-address. And while I stand by my negative opinion of the video itself, and from a channel quality standpoint I wish LTT never uploaded it, I jumped to conclusions and roasted Linus with totally conjectory statements - even while respecting Linus enormously for how far he went as a person since I started watching, for how far he's taken LTT with the talent he's brought on along the way, and for the many instances he demonstrated personal integrity that I admire. I was too willing to see LTT as a big machine that had essentially taken on a mind of its own and was no longer a direct extension of Linus's ideal content creation platform. I had no basis for reaching that conclusion except that LTT had grown and its content had changed accordingly. I should have either communicated with Linus directly or have shut up.
 
I was wrong to have said what I said, and I regretted it as soon as Linus read my comment in his video response. As time has gone on I've become more and more careful to moderate my initial reaction to new information before running off with my own (or others') flawed assumptions, to give the benefit of the doubt, and to talk to people directly before making judgments in drama-laden situations like this. It makes life better and easier for everyone.

This is an excellent explanation of how these things work. 
 
I'd like to add that as long as the creator who gets the automated claim disputes it in a timely manner, there is no lost revenue during the period while it was "claimed". 
 
I've been down at IBM Think for the last couple of days and this thread is the first I'm hearing of this issue.. Aaaand it's already resolved. 
 
So, as far as I can tell, everything is working as it should...ish
 
We have noticed a significant uptick in copyright claims in the last couple of weeks, though, with some of them being in really really old content which suggests youtube has made some kind of change to ContentID and we've been trying to figure out how to address it.
 
We are generally pretty supportive of the creation of derivative works by our community and we want to make sure that they aren't being algorithmically claimed, but this change has caused other issues for us too. I woke up the other morning to a handful of claims made against Tech Quickie by LTT... Can't have that. 
 
I'm sure this will be resolved, but it's probably going to take some time for youtube to get their crap in order, as usual. 

This is such a filthy money grab. I understand perfectly well how much money it can take to sustain a large business, but wow. The only reasonable explanation is that LMG has vastly overextended and can't sustain its enormous payroll and unjustifiable expenses (how many hundreds of thousands in camera gear?) without selling out its integrity to the highest bidder.