YouTube’s Content ID system even flagged indie maven Jonathan Blow for posting footage of his own game

Over the past week, video-sharing site YouTube has been striking down tons of videos that feature gameplay video or gaming music. Some content creators saw more than 80 of their videos flagged by the site’s Content ID bot that looks for copyrighted material in uploaded videos.

One of the major problems that YouTube uploaders have with this crackdown is that Content ID is flagging content for organizations that clearly don’t own the material they are claiming.

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