"Ok YouTube was taken over by google and now videos are being removed by the tens of thousands each day for issues dealing with copyrighted songs. This has NEVER been an issue before. I personally do not like this at all. What do you think of this?"

Copyright has always been an issue and f a video infringes on said copyright, then it should be removed. I'm a working musician, and, apart from benefits for worthwhile causes, I DON'T play for free.

"I do not own or claim this song as my own"

this is one of the worst cop outs I've ever seen, and doesn't alter the fact that you or anyone else have no right to post copyrighted material you don't own. The old hippy-dippy "everything must be free, in the name of the people" was BS back then, and nothing has changed since.