I'm not educated with the legal system and all, but can't YouTube/Google be sued for this garbage?
I'm like 99% sure they can't, and that they can do whatever they want with data stored on hardware they own.
I'm pretty sure most online service providers have some clause in their terms of services that basically States "we own all this data and can do whatever with it"
It's not like YouTube is going out of their way to remove your stuff on their own, it's just a really abusable copyright infringement reporting system.
IIRC, if your video gets taken down, there's a dispute button right on the "this video was taken down" page