<story><title>Lofi Girl: YouTube sorry for taking down music stream</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-62133768</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>code51</author><text>Exactly.&lt;p&gt;Google is not paying my Admob money even after 5 months has passed (no violation, self-close of account)&lt;p&gt;Through the Kafkaesque maze of non-existent Adsense support, my case (they say) finally got escalated to a payment person at Google. Yet, I didn&amp;#x27;t hear update for the past month.&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#x27;t ask anything about your case and you can&amp;#x27;t get any time projection on when you&amp;#x27;ll hear anything back.&lt;p&gt;If you don&amp;#x27;t have big traffic or huge social reach, you are expendable and &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; get stuck in a never-ending hell.</text></item><item><author>mirashii</author><text>From a tweet: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;TeamYouTube&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1546419223466999809#m&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;TeamYouTube&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1546419223466999809#m&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;amp; thx for your patience as we sorted it out&lt;p&gt;But they haven&amp;#x27;t really sorted it out, have they? False copyright strike claims have been plaguing creators for years. This is just another case of someone needing social media and a huge reach or an inside connection to Google employees to get human eyes on a situation and &amp;quot;resolve&amp;quot; it, with no recourse on the lost revenue from the time it was down and no real guarantee it won&amp;#x27;t happen again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>In the old days, bigcorps just wouldn&amp;#x27;t engage with ISVs directly at all. Instead, as an ISV, you&amp;#x27;d engage the services of an &amp;#x27;integrator&amp;#x27; or &amp;#x27;reseller&amp;#x27; — a smaller-scale but still-large entity that you&amp;#x27;d have a support contract with — where &lt;i&gt;the integrator&lt;/i&gt; would then have a support contract with the bigcorp. If you were having an issue with the bigcorp&amp;#x27;s product, you&amp;#x27;d complain to the reseller, and then &lt;i&gt;they&amp;#x27;d&lt;/i&gt; complain to the bigcorp. And because the bigcorp only had a few such resellers as clients, each reseller would actually be able to get the bigcorp on the line.&lt;p&gt;This was (and still is) the IBM model for B2B software; and it was also the industry-standard model for game developers (interacting with the platform owner through a &amp;quot;publisher&amp;quot; — essentially taking the role here of an integrator.) It&amp;#x27;s probably still the industry-standard model for musicians to engage with big record labels.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m honestly not sure why Google &lt;i&gt;doesn&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; push for this model. Their focus on &amp;quot;scaling services as much as possible using as few human support staff as possible&amp;quot; means this model is essentially perfect for them. But they ignore it. Maybe because they think it&amp;#x27;d make them look like a dinosaur?&lt;p&gt;(I know they &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; do it in some places — we use GCP, and apparently, to be able to switch from card-based billing to invoice-based billing, we&amp;#x27;re required to also switch from direct GCP support, to a support-contract with a GCP reseller. So we&amp;#x27;d be paying the reseller — the invoices would be riding as accounts-receivable on the reseller&amp;#x27;s books, rather than on Google&amp;#x27;s!)</text></comment>
<story><title>Lofi Girl: YouTube sorry for taking down music stream</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-62133768</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>code51</author><text>Exactly.&lt;p&gt;Google is not paying my Admob money even after 5 months has passed (no violation, self-close of account)&lt;p&gt;Through the Kafkaesque maze of non-existent Adsense support, my case (they say) finally got escalated to a payment person at Google. Yet, I didn&amp;#x27;t hear update for the past month.&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#x27;t ask anything about your case and you can&amp;#x27;t get any time projection on when you&amp;#x27;ll hear anything back.&lt;p&gt;If you don&amp;#x27;t have big traffic or huge social reach, you are expendable and &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; get stuck in a never-ending hell.</text></item><item><author>mirashii</author><text>From a tweet: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;TeamYouTube&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1546419223466999809#m&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;TeamYouTube&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1546419223466999809#m&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;amp; thx for your patience as we sorted it out&lt;p&gt;But they haven&amp;#x27;t really sorted it out, have they? False copyright strike claims have been plaguing creators for years. This is just another case of someone needing social media and a huge reach or an inside connection to Google employees to get human eyes on a situation and &amp;quot;resolve&amp;quot; it, with no recourse on the lost revenue from the time it was down and no real guarantee it won&amp;#x27;t happen again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>somehnguy</author><text>Adsense held my funds for 6+ years in a never ending loop of bank account not valid-&amp;gt;can’t edit this bank account. Same kafkaesque maze of non-existent support. Beyond frustrating.
 One day it just suddenly let me fix the issue. No idea why.&lt;p&gt;Your point is spot on, if you don’t have a huge social media following you might as well be invisible. This &lt;i&gt;has&lt;/i&gt; to change, hopefully via law. Because it isn’t just a google problem.</text></comment>