2021 May - Sony claims EarthBound soundtrack uploads; SNESMD16-OST channel terminated

I'm basically going to transcribe the entirety of this video from 20 May 2021 and its description here, as they know more about this topic than I do.

But what I will at least do is show evidence of SNESMD16-OST's termination and its millions of views on the EarthBound soundtrack: Before | After

> Recently, Sony Music has taken down THE ENTIRE EARTHBOUND OST from YouTube. They also took down uploads of the EarthBound Beginnings vocal album.
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> They also blocked the Pollyanna tribute animation.
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> Not only that, but a channel that uploads SNES OSTs, SNESMD16-OST, was TERMINATED.
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> If you're wondering why Sony is taking down the music, it's because they own the distribution rights to the EarthBound OST. They also own the rights to the EarthBound Beginnings vocal album.
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> This is bullshit, honestly. Why are they suddenly doing this now? They were fine up up ^sic until now.
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> The EarthBound Beginnings vocal album is on Spotify, but two tracks CAN'T BE STREAMED IN THE US. You can't stream Eight Melodies and the Smiles and Tears Demo Track.

> UPDATE: The Pollyanna animation has been restored. The soundtrack videos are still gone, and so is SNESMD16-OST's channel. Let's Plays, walkthroughs, reviews, YouTube streams, and commentary videos are also getting hit with Content ID claims, leading to Sony making money off of the claimed videos. BruTalc's EarthBound commentary video was also hit with a copyright strike, and it got deleted. I'm unsure if Twitch streams and VODs on Twitch are affected, but I'll continue to look into it.

As an update to their update, brutalc's commentary is once more online: Twitter post

/r/earthbound's reaction to the animation's removal: Reddit post

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2021 May - How Youtube Pays Short-Video Makers recently | ian kung
https://youtube.com/watch?v=K4K7iGUEw4A

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2021 May - Waterhead's YouTube account gets terminated due to getting 27 strikes from UMG/Universal Music "Broup"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un0IFy3kqRQ
https://twitter.com/\_Waterhead/status/1384867935945170944

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2021 May- "Someone Stole My Videos and YouTube is Terminating Me"
https://youtu.be/uuF5k4QB_zg

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2021 April - YouTube has demonetized all animators, meme creators, and short content creators. No explanation given by YouTube. Instead, YouTube has condescendingly blamed the creators.
https://youtu.be/H60EHQUo2VQ

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2021 April: News commentator Philip DeFranco has video about sexual assault allegations against Jake Paul and stories about police brutality heavily suppressed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t1Ng1mOEY0

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2020 February • Pretty late to post this now but I guess this issue needs to be brought to limelight here... Eric Archive's YouTube Channel got terminated around one month ago around January 2021. This probably happened because YouTube didn't like the kind of content the channel used to post
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/kvstc3/ericarchive_royaltyfree_music_channel_terminated/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

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2020 November - YouTube apparently shadow banning 'The CIA is a Terrorist Organization' by Second Thought, and he gets a visit from the DHS.
/r/BreadTube/comments/k2wt7j/youtube_apparently_shadow_banning_the_cia_is_a/

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2020 November - Ghetto house and techno channel Partiboi69 has been terminated for violating "YouTube's policy on nudity or sexual content"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Techno/comments/ju69or/partiboi69_youtube_account_suspended/

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2020 October - Animenz loses all rights to his IP, channel, music and piano after fallout with management
/r/piano/comments/jjp2f4/animenz_last_post/

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2020 October - House music channel EELF has been terminated (181k subscribers, 1400+ videos)
https://www.reddit.com/r/House/comments/jfm2b1/the_eelf_youtube_channel_has_been_terminated/

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2020 October - Youtube removes three months of RTGame's videos without explanation
https://twitter.com/RTGameCrowd/status/1317071636106010631

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2020 September - Ovatian Brands takes down "Old Country Buffet Training" videos and allegedly threatens civil litigation against any that remain

Yesterday, Chadtronic made this two-part tweet, which speaks for itself. I can't verify his claims of 10 channels getting striked.

> So apparently the videographer who made the old country buffet training video has risen from the ashes after several decades to copyright strike 10 youtubers using his ANCIENT AND DECRYPTED video. Fortunately, YT decided at least 3 of the videos (including mine) were fair use.

> Good news? Well no. The creator has also already threatened civil litigation against any video not taken down so in a few hours I will be removing my video. The video served as some good laughs, but it's ultimately not worth me entering a lawsuit with some ancient media cave man.

The two videos in that image other than Chadtronic's are both still up and well at the time of writing this post, and are by Drew Gooden and DEE davE.

The original YouTube upload of the video has also been taken down, but this is the internet so mirrors aren't hard to find.

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2020 September - Gaming channel horheristo (142k subs) has been hacked twice within a week with the hacker streaming cryptocurrency videos
https://twitter.com/horheristo/status/1310567108540076032?s=20

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2020 September • So, YouTube did that again...
https://youtu.be/hAEdFRoOYs0

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2020 September - Disco and house music channel Gazzz696 (85k subs) was hacked and starts posting Roblox cheats and malware
https://www.facebook.com/Gazzz696/posts/4342050209202423

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2020 September - A video by Thought Slime criticizing YouTube's failure to protect LGBT creators, published during the Steven Crowder drama awhile back, was removed and a strike issued for "harassment or cyberbullying".
https://twitter.com/ThoughtSlime/status/1305186884428144640

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2020 September - Charlie (penguinz0) exposing the disgusting animal abuse channels on youtube and addressing team YouTubes complete lack of action regarding the banning of those channels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OkT7dTMuj8

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2020 August - YouTube defaults every single monetized video over 10 minutes to include multiple midroll ads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnekbCdp_AE&feature=youtu.be

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2020 August - Leafy’s channel, LeafyIsHere, is taken down from YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/LeafyIsHere

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2020 July: YouTube threatens to remove Danish music content from the site due to a songwriter royalty dispute
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/youtube-threatens-to-remove-music-content-in-denmark-over-songwriter-royalty-fallout/

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