F-Secure has documented some illegal ads on YouTube. The payment card criminals have not only found YouTube to advertise their services, but they also seem to have exposed a problem with YouTube reporting:
No big surprises there.
A bit more surprisingly, when you want to report such videos to YouTube admins, they actually don’t have an option for reporting criminal use like this.
It’s not sexual, violent, repulsive, hateful, abusive, harmful, spam, or infringing, which are the options available. Perhaps “criminal” or “illegal” were just too obvious for users to flag and report, or maybe YouTube is trying to take a deeply philosophical social networking stand on acceptable use?
I’d report it as infringing. It’s certainly infringing some law, even if it wasn’t the copyright law they had in mind.
Plus, copyright infringement is the thing that really gets them motivated, so they are likely to act on it sooner!