Jim Sterling has been the latest Youtube personality giving his opinion and spreading the word about #WTFU, a growing movement of Youtubers trying to get Youtube to represent their interests better and protect fair use. After recently Doug Walker from Channel Awesome made a video explaining the hoops youtube makes it's content creators jump through and suggesting improvements to the system, the hashtag has been growing bigger.

Watch the Video if you're interested.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9mTOq6mP2I

I'm going to post the Doug Walker Video as well, because he makes a few good points:

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVqFAMOtwaI

I think a lot of people nowadays use youtube as a primary source of entertainment, so: What do you think about this? Do you think something can change? Do you even care? 

GradeA has been on it as well. I love these two videos. The second one just a couple days ago. Long but worth the watch.

Very informative!

Yeah, I totally agree with him. As a Nintendo fan this is maybe what pisses me the most about them, they have some shitty YT policies that are totally ridiculous.

I love Nintendo, but claiming a video that has like 10 seconds of Splatoon-footage from a trailer is really bad.

Yeah. Not to mention it was an edited snippet without sound on an unmonetized video. Nintendo like many others needs to respect fair use. But it's youtube who hands them this power.

Interesting videos. People can literally make a false claim and while it is being fought, they get all the money from the video they get to keep, even if the claim was false. I knew Youtube's content claim system is bad, but not to this extent. 

Guys, remember that Nintendo isn't the issue, here. The video was flagged by ContentID and automatically claimed for Nintendo. The issue is ContentID not respecting Fair Use, and more generally Youtube's policies and processes on claims being absurd.

it's the problem of the monopoly. Youtube has a monopoly and therefore can become abusive without having to worry about losing anything. So someone needs to make a competing service. I think these professional youtubers should get together ans start their own "Youtube Pro" service, although not call it "Youtube" of course. Call it "Fairtube" or something. Then leave youtube to become a wasteland of cat videos. They have the subscriber and viewer base to make a sustainable alternative, if enough of them get together and start their own thing.

That's kinda odd. I don't hear people (that I know of) complaining about claims from reacting from a direct, which has a lot of trailers, and music, which I can somewhat understand because..its music that they created.