This Youtube Drama Is Ridiculous

Thanks so much for covering this man. If he'd just reached out and said he was unhappy that those 2-3 seconds look similar, I'd have happily cut them. And I've tried emailing him several times to see if there's some way we could sort this out between us, but he ignored the question. (I've later found out he has a history of stuff like this from back when he ran PowerTV MCN, but that's a whole different rabbit hole). The problem I have is he immediately went to filing 3 strikes so my channel will get deleted. And while I am countering (as I have no other choice), I can't post videos while the strikes are under review, and the next step is he could now file a lawsuit. Ordinarily a creator would obviously never do that over literally a few SECONDS of footage, but he does have a history of lawsuits. And even if you're in the right it can be a really long expensive process still. Whilst I don't think my videos deserved to be taken down in the first place, I'm still willing to make whatever changes would make him happy. I just don't want to lose my entire channel. Despite the channel name this isn't some big media company, I'm just a guy making videos with a few freelance editors who help me - and this channel is my entire livelihood. Surely there has got to be a different solution here? Thanks again to everyone for sharing this, I really do appreciate it.

Imagine writing a 100 page thesis and getting expelled because half a sentence matched something from a wikipedia page you never visited

This isn’t drama. This is criminal and bullying. Alex needs to lose this and lose *hard*, there needs to be a precedent set for dealing with scum bags like him.

Unless this is tested in the courts and someone actually does win against copyright trolls, this kind of thing is just gonna keep on happening no matter how many times guys like Muta or Charlie bring up. But if it actually comes to it, I hope MagnatesMedia is ready to fight this in court and we'll all be rooting for them all the way.

It's honestly shocking there hasnt been any major legal action taken over false copyright claims yet

The fact that youtube still hasnt figured out a way to solve these copyright issues is beyond my understanding.

This is psychotic, but these stories will never stop coming as long as Youtube does their copyright claim system the way they currently do. Requiring the claimer to provide absolutely no proof of their claim is ridiculous. It would be like sending someone to prison for murder because someone else said they did it, and not have any sort of trial or evidence or testimony, or anything, just immediately send them to prison.

Harassment is becoming more and more justifiable whenever these nutjobs decide to let their ego take over

Thanks for the shoutout Charlie, and thanks for talking about this topic. Alex can’t ignore this once the Moist one enters the chat.

Getting your channel deleted for 10 seconds of a video is like getting the death sentence for jaywalking. how has youtube still not fixed this stuff??

It’s cool to see Upper Echelon appreciated by such a large YouTuber. I’ve watched him from his gaming news days and he is a very talented researcher.

How can it be allowed that someone copyright strikes you for using the same image they used WHEN THEY DONT EVEN OWN THE IMAGE??

I’m thankful for Charlie getting me invested in internet drama I didn’t know about

We do have to put a lot of blame on YouTube too for allowing this system to be abused, a strike can be appealed by reaching out to the person striking but if they ignore you, the strike will stay, youtube automated this shit and now people can’t do anything about it other than try to hope the other person has some sort of soul left in them. And the fact that anyone can just spam this and terminate a channel that someone has worked so hard and long for just with the click of a button, it’s scary…

everyone needs to move to fanvue!

Recently, Nikokado Avocado also copyright claimed and TERMINATED popular meme YouTuber Kracc Bacc. He terminated him for using scenes from his videos, even though Kracc Bacc followed Fair Use (he transformed the videos more then most meme youtubers would), he still had his channel taken away for months. It was a very similar situation, and it would be great if you could cover it.

This isn't out of control "drama", it's a crime.

i love how false copyright strikes have been a problem on youtube for years and years, its always over looked but it can genuinely ruin someone's career.

"this storys got me boiling i am heated" He says in a calm collected manner

youtube should... idk check the strikes by requiring to send the striked's content, the strikee's content and what's similar, then proceed to compare the 2 and see if they are truly similar before adding a strike to the channel, improve the copyright system so this doesn't happen again