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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OB1" data-source="post: 9426928" data-attributes="member: 6796241">For what it's worth, at my last job our company had a youTube channel where we would repost new trailers from upcoming films (which is allowed) but every month or two one of them would get struck down as a copyright violation and we'd have to spend a little time communicating with youTube and the studio to resolve the issue.  It wasn't anything to panic about or get mad at anyone for, it's just the result of the system being extremely sensitive to piracy concerns (and rightfully so).  I will say our CEO would completely freak out every time it happened, and the manager in charge of the channel would have to explain each time that it was fine, just part of the process.  The manager had a plan in place that if there were ever two unresolved strikes at once, he'd stop posting to the channel to prevent a full lock-out, but that never happened.The rules are strong because if they weren't, people could cause real harm to the owners of copyright material.  As mentioned, once the coffee is on the floor, it's near impossible to get it back in the cup.  Being overly proactive to prevent the spill is the only real way to prevent it.  That does mean that sometimes people are unfairly pinged, but as we've seen, it tends to get resolved quickly when the poster was acting in good faith to begin with.</blockquote>