Liam James Payne (born 29 August 1993) is an English singer and songwriter.
He rose to fame as a member of the boy band One Direction.
Payne made his debut as a singer when he auditioned for the British television series The X Factor in 2008. After being eliminated as a solo performer, he auditioned again in 2010 and was put into a group with four other contestants to form One Direction
Earlier this week, two of YouTube’s most popular and influential radio streams suddenly disappeared. Lofi Girl is the 10 million subscriber-strong YouTube account behind the seminal “lofi beats to study to,” streams which have logged over 668 million views over two years.
It’s a massive presence on YouTube by any measurement, yet on Sunday the channel announced that the streams "lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to" and "beats to sleep/chill to" had been deleted by a single false copyright strike, filed from someone purporting to be a Malaysian record label.
Within hours, YouTube apologized and pledged to restore the streams, but not before the issue became a flashpoint in one of YouTube’s most persistent issues.
For many YouTube users, abuse of the platform’s copyright enforcement system is a significant frustration. Any user that gets “three strikes” of either copyright claims or community guidelines claims will have their channel terminated, a policy that has seen trolls extort users by falsely asserting copyright on the material used in their videos.
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