Ya youtube is messed up for sure. I have had maybe 30 total claims all dropped over time however what the companies, or people, do is to claim high ranking videos during their bump and the big problem has been when a game gets released and reviews hit.. I had a 100,000+ view Destiny review that was claimed then revoked then claimed again by the same company. So many problems happened that I just reuploaded again under a slightly different name and they never caught on. Sadly the other company got everything. That has happened to 5 of my largest and most popular reviews. It is pretty much something I expect these days.



Google made it clear both in the forums and in the one single response I got from them in 30+ attempts at pointing out the issue that they flatly do not care. The response was, "we don't take responsibility for the usage of our claims tools." Or some such drivel.



FYI my reviews almost never have any game music in them for fear of REAL copyrights and those claimed were actually games with 0 musical content. Just the game being reviewed. They basically claimed my voice.