I'm Being Stalked and YouTube is Ignoring it [video]

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I've a good friend who has been delisted from Google Search several times recently based on multiple coordinated bogus DMCA claims as part of a coordinated harassment campaign. It's damaged his revenue streams.

Google should get their act together, but they dgaf. The outrage is directed at the troll, not at the people who built this broken and easily exploitable system.

I posted this video because it's a telling illustration of the interaction between the DMCA, the Youtube's particular implementation of compliance with it, and the resulting ability of third parties to inflict significant harm to the content creators.

Wait so anyone on the planet can file for a dmca takedown of any youtube video without having to provide a real name but counter filing requires you to put your full legal name ?? How the fuck is this shit even legal ?

I checked the form, and you in fact have to add plenty of personal information to submit a takedown request. So in this case the submitter obviously didn't supply their real name. A youtuber on the other hand can't submit a false name on their counter filing (for the obvious reasons) and their personal information is sent to the takedown submitter automatically if I understood it correctly.

If you'd prefer to read a transcript or search through it, over watching, see https://www.youtubetranscript.com/?v=hixwIOd_C44

Or for anyone interested in a concise summary based on the transcript: https://subsip.io/summary?youtubeUrl=hixwIOd_C44

I'd imagine when you have an online presence with a relatively large audience, some % of that audience is going to be crazy like this stalker guy

I really wouldn't be surprised if big youtubers keep private security on payroll for this reason

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