@noiob @matt also one time I played Für Elise (badly) on my twitch stream and it was close enough to a recent recording that someone else registered that I got a content match on that too, although I was able to dispute that successfully because at least Twitch isn't as completely broken.
I mean if it were the ghost of Beethoven registering the copyright complaint that's one thing, but no it's just an algorithm that doesn't understand composition vs. recording. And a billion other things.
@noiob @matt Unfortunately it's a cottage industry at this point. People have submitted random birdsong recordings to ContentID and those get a surprising number of matches, I've had ContentID matches against my *completely original* tracks because someone else used a drum sample that was very similar to one of mine, and so on.
ContentID is fucking broken and YouTube doesn't care because it keeps the recording industry off their backs and makes them more money anyway.