Annoying as forget yeah, but people are bringing up legal arguments, as if they are even relevant
there goes bisjac again dropping his unwanted two cents on something he was just too busy to look into for five seconds
News flash: filing false copyright claims to divert somebody else's royalties or revenue into your own bank account, no matter where it comes from, is pretty loving illegal. Nothing is getting done on it because the developers of youtube are stupid enough to not require personal information or confirmation that a copyright claim is legit
And the only automatic process on youtube is a content id match,
which doesn't take videos down