*YouTube let a contentID scammer steal a popular video** * At considerable expense, Christian Friedrich Johannes Büttner, the man behind successful YouTube channel TheFatRat, recorded and posted an original music video. It ran up 47m views, helping to place him among the higher echeleons of YouTube's hitmakers. But then a scammer—someone with no posted videos, no working contact info and no significant internet presence—claimed ownership of it through YouTube's ContentID system. Büttner appealed and was denied. [...] continua qui: https://boingboing.net/2018/12/26/youtube-let-a-contentid-scamme.html