The Steal
How to post someone else's stream and never get caught.
Fight the strike, or say sorry?
Comment FIGHT or SORRY on the episode. Instagram, TikTok and YouTube all count.
Closes Oct 19, 2026 · 1pm ET
- Followers
- 800
- Earned
- €0
- Days left
- 29
You voted, and STEAL won. At 3:48 a.m., Hermes posts Apollo's fall on a second channel, on the same account, so his main channel stays safe.
Six hours later: ninety thousand views, and twelve followers became eight hundred. Money? Zero. No campaign pays for a clip nobody approved.
At 9:12 a.m., the tenth viewer sends Apollo the link. Apollo fills in one form, a copyright removal request. By noon the clip is gone, and the channel has a copyright strike.
Here is the trap: three strikes in ninety days, and YouTube can terminate the account along with every channel associated with it. The second channel was never a shield.
Hermes can fight with a counter notification, but it is only for a mistake or fair use, he signs it under penalty of perjury, and YouTube sends it to Apollo. Or he can say sorry and ask Apollo to retract the request.
Three strikes, and every channel goes
YouTube says that three copyright strikes within 90 days make an account subject to termination, along with any channels associated with it, and that a terminated user cannot create new YouTube channels. A strike expires after 90 days once Copyright School is completed.
A counter notification is sworn, and it goes to the claimant
A counter notification is meant for a removal made by mistake, or for a use that qualifies as an exception such as fair use. The uploader declares it under penalty of perjury. YouTube is legally required to share it with the person who filed the removal request, and misuse of the process can lead to the termination of the account or other legal consequences.
Saying sorry is a real way out
YouTube lists three ways to resolve a copyright strike: wait for it to expire after Copyright School, ask the person who filed the removal request to retract it, or submit a counter notification.
An unapproved clip earns nothing
Clipping campaigns only pay for views that meet their rules, approved content included (StreamClipping AI paid clipping rate index, October 18, 2026). A clip of someone else's stream posted without permission is outside every campaign.