Content ID, unless I'm mistaken, is not a DMCA takedown request. It's is Google's own internal tool. It's their way of self-regulating.
You are correct though, this is not the first time this has happened. This is fairly common (or at least I hear about it often enough), and I assume that anyone who uploads a fair number of videos will eventually be hit with some Content ID complaint regardless of whether they infringed.
I think Google should explain itself, and introduce some measure of protection and repercussions against over-zealous media providers that provide Content ID with samples of media that they do not own. After all, if Google can be asked to moderate it's own site, I think it's fair that a media company can accurately mark the content that it does own.
Doesn't ContentID look at video in some fashion and compare it to new video uploaded? So, if the NASA video was IDed first, all the DMCA requests would have been rejected and saved Google -- and others -- all this trouble.
You are correct though, this is not the first time this has happened. This is fairly common (or at least I hear about it often enough), and I assume that anyone who uploads a fair number of videos will eventually be hit with some Content ID complaint regardless of whether they infringed.
I think Google should explain itself, and introduce some measure of protection and repercussions against over-zealous media providers that provide Content ID with samples of media that they do not own. After all, if Google can be asked to moderate it's own site, I think it's fair that a media company can accurately mark the content that it does own.