Washing machine chime scandal shows how absurd YouTube copyright abuse can get
by Ashley Belanger from Ars Technica - All content on (#6N5ZR)
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YouTube's Content ID system-which automatically detects content registered by rightsholders-is "completely fucking broken," a YouTuber called "Albino" declared in a rant on X (formerly Twitter) viewed more than 950,000 times.
Albino, who is also a popular Twitch streamer, complained that his YouTube video playing through Falloutwas demonetized because a Samsung washing machine randomly chimed to signal a laundry cycle had finished while he was streaming.
Apparently, YouTube had automatically scanned Albino's video and detected the washing machine chime as a song called "Done"-which Albino quickly saw was uploaded to YouTube by a musician known as Audego nine years ago.