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2mo ago

A fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and it’s not clear YouTube can stop him

www.theverge.com A fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and it’s not clear YouTube can stop him

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A fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and it’s not clear YouTube can stop him

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2mo ago

A fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and it’s not clear YouTube can stop him

www.theverge.com /2024/12/27/24326278/nintendo-fake-takedowns-youtube-domtendo-dmca

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2mo ago

A fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and it’s not clear YouTube can stop him

www.theverge.com /2024/12/27/24326278/nintendo-fake-takedowns-youtube-domtendo-dmca

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This keeps getting reposted, and it's bullshit.
Of COURSE Google can do something! They can actually validate claims before acting om them, but thay would require responsibility on their part.
Fuck Google.
- Nope. There's no penalty to them for processing likely-invalid DMCA notices. There is civil liability to the person filing false notices, but any enforcement is unlikely.
  
  No. YT can take things down and their legal responsibility ends. Right or wrong, it's legally safe. So they DGAF.

Of course YT can stop them. But YT doesn't care. Fuck YT.

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