There's a good chance you've come across the Miyazaki art-style thumbnail at some point, but it's been taken down because it's a false copyrighted work.
The channel has amassed over ten million subscribers, with over 660 million people tuning into the stream for over two years and four months straight.
The stream has stopped because of a copyright strike.
The lofi radios have been taken down due to false copyright strikes.
The incident is close to resolution and the stream is still down.
The official account of YouTube said that the requests were abusive. It can take up to 48 hours for everything to be back to normal.
Despite the potential happy ending, it appears to be yet another example of the false accusations made by the content ID algorithm. The platform's automated copyright filters have caused a lot of headaches for creators of videos on the site.
"For anyone thinking this situation is absurd, or wrong, or completely illegal, just remember smaller artists have been abused by this system for years now and YouTube has refused to try to fix what's clearly broken," said the creator of the YouTube music channel.
"And to be clear, I recognize the importance of copyright law," he said, "but YouTube's Content ID system is not uphold the law at this time, its just creating avenues for real scumbags to scam channels out of any hard earned revenue they have."
According to the company's website, Content ID scans every uploaded video against a database of audio and visual content that's been submitted to YouTube by copyright owners.
The state of affairs has turned into a huge problem for creators because of the number of users on the site.
In the first half of the year, 772 million copyright claims were made through Content ID, according to a transparency report released by YouTube last year. One percent of complaints were Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) related.
99% of creators choose not to dispute the claims.
That is a large problem. The Electronic Frontier Foundation said in a report that YouTubers have no time or money to lobby for improvements to the video sharing site. They can't make their anger heard because they can't leave YouTube.
Given the platform's popularity, YouTubers don't have anything else to do.
The Content ID system is easy to abuse.
It's not every channel that's as popular as lofi girl. Smaller channels will have a harder time getting in touch with YouTube to dispute and reverse copyright claims.
According to the EFF, the company has a policy of not responding to copyrighted material within 30 days.
It's a sad place to be. The existence of creators on the platform is being undermined by the flawed copyright system.
This situation isn't helping the Copyright Law in the US.
It was taken down after a false copyright claim.
The creators of the horror video wouldn't let the creator reverse it.
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