Destiny 2 Music Archivists Hit By Takedowns on YouTube, Tracks Deleted

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Destiny 2's The Witch Queen immediately became a huge success for Bungie, even before it was released, and the feedback from the community has been overwhelmingly positive since its launch. One of the highlights for every Destiny 2 release, including The Witch Queen, is often the soundtrack of the expansion or even that for seasonal content. As such, it's not uncommon for fans like to listen to the various tracks Bungie has produced either while playing or even when off the game. This is especially true for all the music that is now gone due to the Destiny Content Vault, or that of Destiny 2's predecessor.

There are several YouTube channels dedicated to hosting music archives for Destiny and Destiny 2, with some content creators even transforming the original soundtracks into remixed tracks. Even though this is good for the community, there may be issues with the legal department when a given video is just the full soundtrack on a static image. This is something that violates Bungie's guidelines on the matter, and it has resulted in videos being taken down, demonetized, or entirely removed from the platform.

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However, yesterday many Destiny 2 music archivists got multiple channel strikes for copyright reasons, resulting in a few accounts being terminated without notice and other YouTubers having enough time to delete the tracks themselves to keep their channel active. This strike and takedown wave was issued overnight for some creators, resulting in them not even seeing what was going on until it was too late. The community took this to Reddit to both get answers from Bungie and to alert other individuals who may be affected in the coming days.

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