Only after I reminded YouTube of My Constitutional Rights
as a United States Citizen, did they comply with my demand
for the names and contact details of my accusers under the
Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998, which is currently
enjoying widespread abuse.

YouTube didn't even have the integrity to follow its own
TOS, which require it to inform a user upon receipt of
a DMCA Takedown Notice of the material targeted, and
the filer of the notice itself.

I filed the required Counter-Notice, which contained
much more information than the minimum by HMS Royal
Mail Special Delivery Signed For, to ensure recording
of delivery.

Accomanying the affidavit were supporting
documents re the counterclaim, plus a demand
for the contact details of my accuser or accusers.
When I obtained the information, I found that
I'd been caught in the 100,000 plus takedown net
initiated by VIACOM, and said company had not a
leg to stand on legally.

Their agent, one of three current companies having
developed "digital fingerprint sniffing" technology
said merely that "a few mistakes are bound to happen
when a takedown of this scale is intiated", when
questioned as to why perfectly legal videos were
targeted by their system.

I for one, think that we are dealing once more
with "vaporware", ala MS and other big conglomerates
who release software without working all the bugs out
beforehand!