Cop Notice
Saw this for the first time on YouTube today:
My copywriting mind went immediately to how police state/patronizing this sounds, and how it could be rewritten to sound less so. “This audio track violates copyright laws, so it has been disabled” seems slightly better, but there’s no way around it seeming like a dick move by YouTube. Because it is. A better mechanism might be to disable copyright-breaking works* only once they breach a certain viewership, say 100,000 views. This video has only 450 views – why bother messing with that?
*At that point, it seems like everyone is better served if an ad-revenue sharing deal is worked out, and the work kept intact.