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Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus (youtube.com)
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[–] 43 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Bloomberg has 10 days to file for lawsuit against Gamers Nexus. If they do, the take down stands, and it's a strike until Gamers Nexus may win the case. Which will be expensive. 3 strikes and YouTube closes the channel with near zero option for appeal.

Gamers Nexus cannot manage if a big company like Bloomberg goes all in. They can easily bankrupt a small channel like Gamers Nexus with frivolous lawsuits. And if you are bankrupt, you can't defend yourself.

The US judicial system is heavily tilted towards those that have more money.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    "small."

    Make no mistake. Gamers Nexus is a multi million dollar company.

    Sure, Bloomberg is much, much bigger. But while gamers Nexus is the underdog, it's not the toothless underdog. That little fucker will bite in bloomberg's ankles before it dies and tbf: it looks like it's already yapping and took it's first bite.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    That is true, but yes Gamers Nexus is (relatively) small, and a million dollars can be gone in no time, if a multi billion dollar company decides you need to be gone.
    1 million dollars is far from enough to run just a single somewhat high profile copyright lawsuit.

    This case is simple, so they will probably manage that pretty easily, there is basically no way Bloomberg can win. It's just a typical harassment tactic that will work against by far the most smaller outlets. But Steve is smart, he knows bullshit when he sees it, and he is not easily scared.

    But if Bloomberg gets pissed enough, Gamers Nexus could soon be toast. Just like Gamers Nexus has friends more powerful than themselves, so does Bloomberg.

    And 3 frivolous take down notices can appear from various sources in no time. And to YouTube Gamers Nexus is definitely small fry.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    What’s the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars?

    Answer: roughly a billion dollars.

    Being a million-dollar company means nothing against a company where a million dollars can count as little more than a rounding error.

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  • [+] -19 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    But it's only one of 3 strikes.
    And I am sure it can even expire at some point.
    So what's the matter?

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  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Since YouTube also count frivolous claims, you can get 3 strikes in no time.
    How many take down claims have been put against them already? How many did they successfully resolve?
    IDK, and if you don't either, you are making an argument from ignorance.

    But as I mentioned, there is basically no defense against 3 frivolous strikes. It will close the channel, no matter how much the channel can prove it's innocence.
    Unless of course it's a mega corp, they have different rules, because they are big and google makes money from them, and they have big lawyer teams.

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