YouTube has screwed me over again. For the third time YouTube decided to start live streaming even though I never started a stream from their dashboard. For more than three months I have been sending stream data to their servers but protected from having it become live by not explicitly starting a stream, but sometime in the last month that stopped being true and suddenly my streams containing a few songs that are more sensitive than others with regard to copyright started tripping their copyright strike things. YouTube did grant my first appeal, but after that no more. So now I have a “Warning” which is the first step before a “Strike” that is not at all my fault. YouTube chose to start a live stream without my authorization.
I had to disable live chat earlier because they cannot secure that either. It was full of harassment that could not be removed. So there’s another reason.
As of this moment, I am not planning on ever live streaming to YouTube again. You would think a company of that size and technical prowess would not make dumb-ass mistakes like this. But I’ve come to learn that the companies that are the best funded are never necessarily the best. They were just chosen by the VC capitalist gods to win while their better competitors are snuffed out. Those are the rules of the game.
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