There is a young woman in spectacles and an orange wig dancing around her bedroom doing an out-of-tune spoof of the song “YMCA”, complete with arm-waving and expletive-riddled lyrics. Nothing out of the ordinary there, then, because of course, this is YouTube.The song is actually pretty funny, and decent satire. It’s called “DMCA”, after the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the US law that enshrines some of the rules websites such as YouTube must abide by if they don’t want to get sued by the owners of copyrighted material posted by their users.Our singer has just been barred from YouTube, she says, after posting a TV clip owned by Viacom, the owner of MTV and Comedy Central, home to SpongeBob SquarePants and South Park. Under the DMCA, YouTube has to take down copyrighted material when the owner complains, and the website bars repeat offenders.To read this Independent on Sunday report in full, click here.