Posted Sep 8, 2012 4:07 UTC (Sat) by gmaxwell (subscriber, #30048)
Parent article: Security quotes of the week
It's not just "contentid", there appears to be a thriving little industry of people going around and fraudulently claiming ownership of random files— especially old uploads of inactive users— so they can collect ad income. It's not like youtube is incented to be be especially critical of the claims or repeat abusers— they make money on those adds too.
One of the lame side effects of this is an enormous amount of the whole youtube collection becoming inaccessible to Firefox HTML5/Webm: The ads require flash.