A fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and it’s not clear YouTube can stop him
A fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and it’s not clear YouTube can stop him
Who is Tatsumi Maasaki?
YouTube certainly can, they just don't care enough.
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.
Nintendo's lawyers doing something good for once?
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 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
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.
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
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)_/¯"
Bruh nintendo seems starkly opposed to getting even ok at modern networking.