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A fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and it’s not clear YouTube can stop him
(www.theverge.com)
YouTube certainly can, they just don't care enough.
this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2024
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I don't think they can do much at all, actually. They're not allowed much wiggle room when it comes to being DMCA-compliant. They pretty much have to take every takedown request at face value, because DMCA requests are a legal process, and I imagine that any intervention on YouTube's side could be seen as arbitration. I doubt they could do much to interfere with an impersonator, since even a falsely-submitted DMCA complaint is still a legal request that has to be processed accordingly.
The DMCA needs to be gutted.
Nintendo can do something, though. They're the ones being impersonated, so they can actually take the guy to court.
Platforms actually do get more leeway than is usually thought with DMCA takedown requests. If they believe it to be fraudulent, they have every right to disregard it. That's a fact they conveniently try to downplay because they want people to think they have no responsibility for their actions.
If they believe it to be fraudulent, they have every right to disregard it.
Without taking on liability if they are wrong and it was not fraudulent?
Yeah, that's bullshit. You can tell by the fact that they don't take down videos from big corporations when some nobody trolls with a fraudulent DMCA request. They only do it when it's the other way around.
Nintendo's lawyers doing something good for once?
Nintendo's lawyers are too busy doing DMCA claims of videos for 5 seconds worth of sound or video to go after a guy making a false claim in their name
The troll was able to spoof the Nintendo.co.jp domain because Nintendo didn’t setup their DMARC settings correctly. They have it setup but with policy “none” instead of “reject”. What a bunch of dumb asses. Such a big company doesn’t even protect their domains against spoofing. Probably why they got hacked, they don’t invest enough in IT security. Though this is typical for Japanese corporations.
https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=dmarc%3ANintendo.co.jp&run=toolpage
Bruh nintendo seems starkly opposed to getting even ok at modern networking.
Probably why they got hacked,
Which time lmao, weren't there like 4 gigaleaks?
Well, they still use internet Explorer, http sans s and fax machines.
When asked why, their response, roughly translated, was "we just want to play eroge ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
This back and forth from the comments on the article is interesting:
What the article ommits: The youtuber in question has a long history of threatening smaller channels with various actions against them, from brigading to lawyers to copyright strikes, if they do something he doesn't like and don't bow to his will. So I'm not surprised to see someone was fed up with him eventually.
Two wrongs don't make a right as my nan used to say. This YouTuber being a bit of a grunt does not negate the fact YouTube itself is happy taking a hands off approach to a fundamental part of their business model because the ones it affects are not the ones that give them most of the money.
Of course it's a problem, I just feel 0 sympathy in this case and I find it ironic that it's him especially that got hit with the same treatment he threatens others with.
Why do people even play Nintendo games inspite of Nintendo's abusive behaviour is beyond me
Just play Indie Titles
Thier games are pretty good.
No it isn't, it's the same thing all over again Just get AA studios to make an equivalent