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Hey all,

There's a lot of threads here and on other places, hopefully this sheds some light on the claim process, and what happened with eeplox's video.

Here's the sequence, as best as I understand it:

- eeplox posted a video to YouTube that contained bird sounds.
- The automated YouTube content identification system mistakenly assigned it to one of the tracks in our catalog.
- eeplox contested the automated claim, which sent it into the manual review queue.
- One of our reviewers reinstated the claim, which triggered the response eeplox received and posted above.

When we heard about the story on Slashdot, we reviewed the video and released it.

TL;DR: We messed up during the manual review process. We've cleared eeplox's video. We're working on fixing the manual review process.

I'm here in the discussion to answer what questions we can. We're not interested in screwing over independent musicians and video creators, and we want to be as open as possible about what's going on.

If you run into content claim issues with our catalog on YouTube, you're welcome to contact us directly at YouTubeContentID@rumblefish.com. We have a FAQ about the process here: http://rumblefish.com/id/youtube-content-id.php

Paul Anthony (the CEO) has an AMA thread over at Reddit where he's answering questions. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/q7via/im_the_ceo_of_rumblefish_i_guess_were_the_newest/

Thanks,
-Peat

Let them hear our collective opinion on this:

http://rumblefish.com/about-us.php#tabs-6
If this goes viral, then even better!

Read Rumblefish's bullshit reply too:

4. I don’t want advertising next to my video, I don’t like it.

YouTube provides a free video sharing service for hundreds of millions of users. The way that YouTube generates revenue to pay for the service is via advertising on pages where content has been identied. Supporting the Content ID system helps keep YouTube free for everyone and it’s a small price to pay

Basically "don't pay attention to the millions were making off you - it keeps youtube free and it's a small price to pay!" aka don't pay attention to the fact that youtube was free before advertising as well, and that it's not a small price to pay - inconvenience makes things not worth watching.

Which is why we should go to the company directly:
http://rumblefish.com/about-us.php

Email them and let them know that as a potential customer and citizen you find their behavior unacceptable.

Or more directly here: YouTubeContentID@rumblefish.com

Webpage: http://rumblefish.com/id/youtube-content-id.php

Which is why we should go to the company directly:
http://rumblefish.com/about-us.php

Email them and let them know that as a potential customer and citizen you find their behavior unacceptable.

Or more directly here: YouTubeContentID@rumblefish.com

Webpage: http://rumblefish.com/id/youtube-content-id.php

Which is why we should go to the company directly:
http://rumblefish.com/about-us.php

Email them and let them know that as a potential customer and citizen you find their behavior unacceptable.

Or more directly here: YouTubeContentID@rumblefish.com

Webpage: http://rumblefish.com/id/youtube-content-id.php

Which is why we should go to the company directly:
http://rumblefish.com/about-us.php

Email them and let them know that as a potential customer and citizen you find their behavior unacceptable.

A potential customer? You mean YOU, im_thatoneguy, are a huge, faceless, multinational music conglomerate with more money than God and delusions to BECOME God, if only to fix that pesky "free will" bug coded into humanity since Day One?

Wow! And you're posting on Slashdot! Will wonders never cease!

Which is why we should go to the company directly:
http://rumblefish.com/about-us.php

Email them and let them know that as a potential customer and citizen you find their behavior unacceptable.

http://rumblefish.com/about-us.php.