{"id":17356,"date":"2019-10-16T12:52:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T17:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17356"},"modified":"2019-10-16T12:52:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T17:52:42","slug":"youtube-gets-alleged-copyright-troll-to-agree-to-stop-trolling-youtubers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17356","title":{"rendered":"YouTube gets alleged copyright troll to agree to stop trolling YouTubers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/8\/19\/20812144\/youtube-copyright-strike-lawsuit-alleged-extortion-minecraft\">first sued Brady in August<\/a> after learning that he targeted a couple of <em>Minecraft <\/em>and gaming creators \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KenzoOG\">\u201cKenzo\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCXfOKy0XLz2aQb3ziWDABaA\">\u201cObbyRaidz\u201d<\/a> \u2014 by using false copyright claim takedowns. The company removed the videos, as the company is required to do when a claim is submitted. YouTube only pursued legal action after it was informed that Brady was allegedly using copyright strikes as a way to pressure creators into paying a lump sum of cash. Brady would allegedly strike two videos on a channel and then demand cash; three strikes on a channel result in it being terminated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/10\/15\/20915688\/youtube-copyright-troll-lawsuit-settled-false-dmca-takedown-christopher-brady\">YouTube gets alleged copyright troll to agree to stop trolling YouTubers &#8211; The Verge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/story\/19\/10\/15\/2159234\/youtube-gets-alleged-copyright-troll-to-agree-to-stop-trolling-youtubers\">slashdot comment<\/a> this could be criminal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube first sued Brady in August after learning that he targeted a couple of Minecraft and gaming creators \u2014 \u201cKenzo\u201d and \u201cObbyRaidz\u201d \u2014 by using false copyright claim takedowns. The company removed the videos, as the company is required to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17356\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1006,430,1246],"class_list":["post-17356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-copyright-trolls","tag-dmca","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17357,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17356\/revisions\/17357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}