It’s been a sad day for everyone on the internet as our beloved, famous LoFi music live stream that had been ongoing for years (yes, years) was taken down all of a sudden, no thanks to a fraudulent copyright strike. And that fraudulent copyright strike was done in the name of FMC Music Sdn Bhd Malaysia – which is obviously a music label that is based in Malaysia.
As a Malaysian, this is shameful. LoFi Girl only plays music from their own record label and does not infringe on anyone’s copyright.
However, YouTube’s copyright striking system is completely broken. You can strike someone and have it take effect first before the victim can do anything – which is what happened to LoFi Girl here. Moreover, YouTube isn’t exactly helpful when it comes to responding to these types of urgent issues – and LoFi Girl did what other YouTube creators will do – tweet at YouTube.
Luckily for LoFi Girl, YouTube did respond and said that this claim is indeed fraudulent but needs time for the strike to be reversed.
The implications
LoFi Girl has a live stream where chill, lofi beats are played 24/7/365 for about 2 years already. Unfortunately, since this fraudulent strike took down that live stream, the live stream streak had been reset back to zero.
There’s a new stream now but it’s sad to see all that 2 years of history within that live stream just getting wiped by a fraudulent copyright strike.
The aftermath
The LoFi Girl channel is back and they also provided an update on Twitter regarding the issue. It’s a long thread that I really hope you read, particularly tweet 2/7.
It highlights one big issue regarding YouTube’s copyright claim/strike system:
We’re shocked and disappointed to see that there’s still not any kind of protection or manual review of these false claims.
I mean, as a YouTube creator myself, I agree. There is no reason for the claim to take effect first even if it is fraudulent. The defendant needs to go through hoops and loops to get in contact with YouTube to resolve this issue effectively.
Even on LoFi Girl’s initial tweet regarding the copyright strike, there are many other people saying that their video also got claimed fraudulently as well but YouTube did nothing to help them.
The only reason why LoFi Girl got immediate assistance from YouTube is because of the vocal majority that hounded YouTube to take action. And also the LoFi Girl channel is big enough for YouTube to care.
What happened to FMC Music Sdn Bhd Malaysia?
From what I understand, every music label on YouTube has the tools to file a copyright strike or claim. As from personal experience, every video that we upload will have its waveform compared with all the music on YouTube and see if the waveform matches any of the copyrighted music. That is how an automated copyright claim or takedown is performed.
However, this seems to be a copyright strike done manually by FMC Music Sdn Bhd Malaysia. I think it is because of this action, the copyright strike is inarguably fraudulent.
What happened next, is justice. Somewhat.
The YouTube account of FMC Music Sdn Bhd Malaysia got terminated but it seems to be still up and running. Maybe it’s the record label rights that got terminated? I’m unsure – but I sure hope that the company can’t make any more false claims.
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