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YouTuber won DMCA fight with fake Nintendo lawyer by detecting spoofed email (arstechnica.com)

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Gamer urges YouTube to change DMCA takedown process to end copyright abuse.

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[–] dumbass@leminal.space 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Gamer urges YouTube to change DMCA takedown process to end copyright abuse.

They won't change shit, they didn't the last few times someone abused it.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Nope, not untill there is a viable competitor that has a meaningful impact on their business.

YT effectively is a monopoly, so they have zero intention to anything to help content creators with legal issues. Way better for them to just ignore the issue