Originally Posted by Nathan

Ron,

As you pasted, YouTube does not say they remove all videos once they terminate access, they also do not say what a repeat infringer is. Unless I missed that part obviously.

And no, editorial rights, as per DMCA, is selecting content. We can for example not choose what content we like that gets uploaded and what we do not and then not let certain things come online. This is illegal as per DMCA. Deleting videos after the fact with a reason like "you uploaded 2000 videos and 2 were DMCA'd, obviously all other 1998 are infringing although interestingly enough we have only received 2 DMCA's in the last 2 months" does not sound so great to me. Of course we could just guess... but let's imagine this...

There is a user, he runs a service which uploads videos to tubes for content owners. The content owners hire him to upload. One of the content owners changes his mind and DMCA's the 2 videos he had him upload. So now we delete the other 1000 videos the user uploaded... We had no reason to do so in the end. Actually, in theory, one of the content owners could sue us because of unfair competition caused when we removed their video from our site and thus cost them branding views.

I know, I know, everyone will now again call me a thief and stupid and that I have no clue and that obviously I am just playing... still, I have the urge to comment... stupid me.