<story><title>YouTube Copyright ID Scammers Must Pay Artists $3.3M Restitution</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-copyright-id-scammers-must-pay-artists-3-3m-restitution-231116/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acidburnNSA</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been getting 1960s public domain Atomic Energy Commission films scanned from 16mm reels at the National Archives and posting on YouTube. I noticed they were running a lot of ads even though I had monetization off. Turns out, each one got a few copyright claims from people who apparently release &amp;quot;remastered&amp;quot; old music in the 2010s. I got annoyed and disputed them all and as of yesterday the claims have all been released. What a pain.</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTube Copyright ID Scammers Must Pay Artists $3.3M Restitution</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-copyright-id-scammers-must-pay-artists-3-3m-restitution-231116/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AugustoCAS</author><text>I only skimmed through the article, but if I understood correctly the scammers made $23m, now have to repay $3.3m (which probably will never happen) and some of their assets were taken. They were given 4 and 6 year prison sentences (which might be cut short for good conduct I assume).&lt;p&gt;So in 3 years these blokes come out, with probably ~5m-10m stashed away? Not a bad ROI :(.</text></comment>