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I Was Blackmailed-Any YouTuber Could Be Next

News / May 26, 2020 August 5, 2020 / GameFromScratch

If you follow Gamefromscratch on Twitter, you may have already seen
this tweet I put out last night about a blackmail demand that was
made against our YouTube channel:

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First off, I really want to give a gigantic shout out to all of the
people that helped get the message out, the tweets, retweets and even
Reddit post.  You are an amazing community and hopefully if we yell
loud enough, YouTube will here and fix this!

Basically it started with a message in the GFS Discord server
claiming to have taken down my Animate CC video.  This video
unfortunately has been taken down and reinstated 4 times in the last
two months, this happened after YouTube turned up the bots
responsibility due to Covid-19, so I had written it off as bots
malfunctioning.  Each time it was taken down, I appealed and it would
be restored.  After I didn't pay the $50 in bitcoin, I started
getting Circumvention of Technology notices for 3 of my videos.  That
ultimately resulted in a community strike and loss of access to my
channel for a week (or until appealed).  Thankfully those  three
takedowns were reversed in about 2 hours and channel privileges were
restored.

Today I was just waiting for YouTube to restore my 2 year old Animate
CC video... then to my shock, it was reviewed and found to be in
violation!  Even after multiple previous reviews, as you can see from
these email snippets!

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So that is where things stand now.  My channel is back, 3 out of 4 of
my videos are returned.  Thing is, anyone that wants can do this
exact same attack whenever they want.  It was reported to YouTube and
frankly they did nothing.  Any YouTube creator you love can have
their channel taken down by spamming Circumvention of Technology
claims, and there really isn't anything you can do about it.  YouTube
assumes your guilt and until the review clears you name, your video
is down.  As you can see from the above emails, your video doesn't
always come back.

The single biggest piece of advice I can give to any YouTube creator,
make sure your content is mirrored on another network!   After my
Animate CC video was taken down the second time, I started mirroring
to Lbry.tv and I recommend you do to!  Thanks to mirroring to Lbry,
my Animate CC video lives on!  So if you want to try to spot the
copyright circumvention YouTube reviewers "found", you can!

Hopefully if we yell loud enough, YouTube will hear and creators will
be protected from insanity like this in the future!  You can learn
much more in the video below.  Once again, thank you to everyone that
helped amplify my voice, it was and is much appreciated!

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