SoldierHawk wrote:

Sorry for the double post, but meh. God DAMN am I glad I took the time to download and re-upload all my videos last night. I didn't think they'd do it this fast, but sure enough, both of my accounts have been disabled. Thank GOD I downloaded my LPs before that happened. So I guess I'll just have to live with my first 6 LPs being a lot lower quality (thanks to the quality hit taken by downloading/reuploading.) Oh well. Oh, for the record, after an *hour and a half* on hold I finally got ahold of Google on the phone, only to promptly be told they don't do phone support for youtube. "Our support is all online." Translation: shut the fuck up, we're not going to help. Especially since their YT help email is practically nonexistent, and the only official rep in the help forum does nothing but dither about and toe the company line. (Which I don't blame her for, but basically that makes her useless for anything but the most rudimentary tech issues which anyone can answer.) So basically, YouTube and Google told me to go fuck myself. Except they didn't even listen long enough to let me say that. What the hell ever happened to "don't be evil," huh?

Hawk, we are talking about youtube and google which are free to anyone with internet access. What you are going through is basically why i gave up on uploading anything further on my youtube channel. Since the services are free they cannot be held responsible for even the slightest mistake you may have made. Now if you were paying for the service of youtube then all you had to do is threaten to sue and youtube would probably negotiate.

This is the problem with something like youtube, you maybe a consumer but you are not a paying consumer therefore any consumer rights you might have are thrown out the window. It's the price to pay for something free like youtube, if that makes any sense.

Youtube really can't manage itself properly or have any respect for it's consumers. Look at internet giants like AVGN and Nostalgia Critic who got their start on youtube and since youtube kept snubbing them over they made their own websites. And dare i say those sites are better then yt. By all means youtube should have picked them up and increased their publicity but instead they enlist Michael Buckley and Irate Gamer or . . . . shudder Fred . . .

There really hasn't been any movements for 'youtube consumer rights' yet mainly because the big corps that hold the copyright laws have the money and therefore the power and constantly put fear into youtube. I know i'm in a loop rant right now but your mass effect videos do not even come close to the other copyright infringements i've seen on youtube and it burns me up. Youtube is hypocritical, I found a channel that had been up a year, A YEAR posting nothing but old ghostbuster cartoons and youtube just got around to closing the channel after it was up for two years. I'm not saying what the creator of the channel did was right but youtube should have some damn consistency. How long were your videos up, not even a week and youtube jumped on you in a heartbeat. Youtube needs to get off it's lazy ass and start maintaining it's site better, that way they can weed out the perpetrators and start recognizing respectable consumers like Hawk and give them the help they need but since the service is FREE, that wont be happening any time soon.

There are plenty of youtube users like yourself that do care about their channel and should be given a chance to defend it. the problem is there are so many trolls and pirates that create bot-accounts, youtube has to adopt the policy of 'everyone is guilty period" mainly because it's easier that way. I keep saying that youtube should have a second chance law so anyone who had copyright material and wants to save their channel can remove it and have their record cleaned.

But no, youtube can't waste it's time trying to better it's services, instead it has to focus on more important things like reformatting everyone's channel which IMHFO is about as convenient as having my pants on my head.

Sorry Hawk, but youtube closing channels for retarded reasons is a topic i'm drawn too like a moth to a flame. I'm going to stop right now before i explode but i want you to know, you have my support.