I hate the Google/YouTube connection.
I had a YouTube account for a good three years before getting gmail. Then, they linked accounts last year (well, I linked it, but only after they kept giving me the pop-up window countless times) and my YouTube account gets banned due to me having Dragonball Z footage that I redubbed for a comedy mini-series. As such, my gmail account was on lock down for a week. Finally, they released access to me. But it sucked. My personal email should not be affected by a fucking video upload that I made three years ago.