Hi wmarais, sorry, I haven’t been able to get back to this thread earlier.
Well, I didn’t have millions of views and only have been on YouTube for about 6 months. I suppose over 40 Videos is not a lot then. Of course I have a backup, but you lose everything around it. A certain amount of traffic is lost as well as quite a view of my videos ranked kinda well. And I find it ironic that traffic to my site has since dropped to less than half of what it used to be (!!). It’s almost as if google added a little penalty on top of it.
In order to keep this thread useful:
I have since contacted the YouTube copyright department who (believe this?) got back to me within 2 days. So, now I will follow down the official counter claim route and see where that takes me. It’s hilarious, unless I didn’t contact the correct user who apparently flagged one of videos, he/she does not recall flagging anyone’s video in the first place. No idea what goes on behind the YouTube scenes, but I have a feeling they messed up properly…
Anyways, once I know more I’ll post it up here and let you know how things turn out – may be interesting for anyone who upon their daily YouTube visit finds him/herself unable to log in.
Cheers! 