I need to stress very specifically here in case Techlead is watching this. I firmly believe any clip used in this was in "fair use". Any attempt to falsely DMCA will be challenged legally in court.
Thank you Muta for your strength to stand up towards true degeneracy when it is called for. You don't just say the words you back it up with action and that means a lot to all of us who care for this site and human decency in general.
Thank you so much for covering this issue and for your support behind the scenes…❤ I greatly appreciate it. I’m relieved we got my channel strike removed and that TechLead deleted his laughably bad video…
A couple were scamming investors for over 10 years in Canada. Were charged 3 times by police and let go. They scammed the wrong family and were found dead a few days ago in Toronto.
@@КГБКолДжорджКостанца it's relevant in that the legal system he learned about wherever he is originally from is likely very different from the US. He probably doesn't realize that his statements are hurting him legally.
When I first saw TechLead I assumed he was playing an exaggerated character, the self-aggrandizing techie who dispenses really bad advice to aspiring software engineers. I thought it was meant to be a clever parody of advice-for-success channels. Apparently the creature I believed was meant to be a parody is the actual man.
Yeah, I actually found his early vids funny viewing them as a sarcastic parody. He started drifting into seeming not-so-much-a-parody a bit before the “my wife left me (as a millionaire)” vid(s). I still can’t work out if he was serious all along, or started with parody, before having some kind of breakdown, not knowing which bit of what he was doing before was working and adapt g the persona, before descending into malicious activities & crypto scams.
@@Will-kt5jk Tbh, I think the parodies was his real personality we just thought he was kidding. Techlead always has an ego which always rubbed me the wrong way, on top of the guy seem real selfish. I noticed he would do anything for money like doxing, redirecting traffic from a competitor’s site real shady shit…
His supposed "tech" content was never anything special. You can find the same material in many many sophomore-level computer science lectures on TH-cam.
@@ricky4673it’s pretty much true. You can get connections with politicians, then bribe uh I mean lobby them to do things for you. You can also pay off the police too to end investigations early or even reassign people who do get close or something. Or just orchestrate a murder and cover it up. Or I may have been watching too much tv. Either way, it could probably be possible for a rich person to do.
Seeing Muta, Internet Anarchist, Coffeezilla and Charlie whooping Techlead's ass is like seeing 4 different versions of Spider-Man beating up Mysterio in Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions
@@s.v.discussion8665, you seem to be mistaken. _They_ do it to rightfully expose Techlead. _Techlead_ is the one trying to do it for the money, attention, and overall just to stroke his overly-inflated ego
@@s.v.discussion8665 your telling me they get to shaft a known scammer and someone who is directly advertising they are doing the scummiest thing possible on youtube AND GET PAID? who wouldnt
I used to work as a counselor at a drug rehab that primarily served probationers and homeless. We had lots of narcissists and sociopaths in my program, just because of the client population, there's a lot of these personality disorders in the overlap between criminal justice and addiction. I learned to listen very closely to certain queues and identify clients who were going to be a problem. 13:00 This thing of like, " I don't care and it doesn't bother me at all... (but I'm also not going to let this slide)" And "I'm going to put you in your place and teach you a lesson... (and show you how I have the real power here)," that's sociopath talk. If I heard someone talking like that in my group, I'd mentally add that to the "sociopath" column in my head. Normal people just don't think this way, typically. But all sociopaths do. I know this is nothing new to people who have followed techlead, and heard an iota of techlead's real life, but I just pass that all along.
@@wolfumzThis has nothing to do with sociopathy. That is called enforcing boundaries and making sure people do not mess with you. Plenty of “normal” people think like this. They just don’t have the courage to go through with it, which is why they keep getting walked over and exploited in life. The measure of a sociopath is the specific actions they take to this end and their severity, lack of guilt/remorse/shame, and level of irritability.
@@rinkohorowitz Not sure what you think you're responding to with the (failed) hair-splitting, but in any case, do you think "techlead" has ever known a moment of remorse or shame for any of his sliminess? He's unquestionably a sociopath, among other things.
@@wolfumz Western Psychology is an inverse bastardisation of Eastern Psychology and is a profession as part of a system. It is a system of abuse itself.
@@rinkohorowitz If you think it's justifiable to break the law in order to doxx someone and hurt their income because they criticized you and you don't want to be "messed with", you're definitely not a normal person.
As a victim of Malicious DMCA abuse myself, I say hats off to you Mutahar for addressing this. This has been something that TH-cam needs to look at and change due to the rampant abuse that has been going on for years, not only by Techlead, but many others. I would also love for TH-cam to actually implement a live chat or a real human instead of an automated DMCA system to combat abuse, and also give us an option to report these malicious users for DMCA abuse and Ban Evasion. (If a malicious DMCA Abusing channel gets taken down, oftentimes they create alternates to re strike you).
@@JesterAzazel it is absoloutley TH-cam's job to take action against people on thier platform that violate their stated TOS. The stated consequences for violating TOS need to be followed through or else the TOS doesnt matter and you get a platform that is in complete chaos, like we have now where TH-cam is sending the message that doxxing is 100% okay. Thats messed up.
@@KayGreylai Wrong. Look up what happened with VenomFangX and Thunderf00t. Thunderf00t had to file a countersuit, and he won. Either do your job and protect your business, or nothing will ever change. Whining about it isn't accomplishing anything. The ENTIRE REASON this keeps happening is because people know they can get away with it because of people like you, who keep saying YT needs to handle it. Nothing has changed in the last 14 years. Counter the claim, or nothing is going to happen.
Only ad blockers because the bot situation is just getting worse each day as well. TH-cam should fix the bad eggs before forcing ad malware onto their users.
Ah yes, TechLead, the leading example as to how to never act when you have a bigger channel. He’s done it all. Scammed his followers, false copyright struck people, doubling down on his actions, checklist complete.
That guy has annoyed me since he started on TH-cam. Anytime somebody constantly uses "former FAANG Engineer" like it's a personality or something, you know you're dealing with a weirdo. It's a job. You aren't that special. There are plenty of Engineers at those companies that aren't all that great of programmers. And I can tell you that 100% as a fact as somebody who has witnessed it.
It's like someone who works at an Amazon fulfillment center and acts like he's hot shit because of it... when in reality, he was hired because Amazon will hire anybody with a pulse.
Im not subscribed to him nor I watch his videos regularly but Im pretty sure that it was a running joke together with adding "as a millionaire" to every title.
Dude I used to think techlead was joking for so long and then i realised how negative his 'humor' was and I just started avoiding his videos. Its sad this is even a thing.
What about these TH-cam ads man why they like kick me out of my Android they always be messing with my Android and stuff and I really don't like it and then like I really don't want to like pay for it and they should go f*** off
I think he really screwed himself making that video on TH-cam. He literally admitted to it ON platform. We had a actual video that we can mass vote the TOS breaking on that's not just "spam report".
I love how he says court is a waste of time. He knows damn well that if he went to court he’d be screwed and probably get a second case opened for his crypto scam ☠️
@@123lowp .... C'mon man, not so loud..... youre gonna shatter a lot of ridiculous dreams.... and dont explain the odds of winning the lottery to them either!!
All TH-cam needs to do is add an option for when you're refuting a claim. "Suspected Copyright Abuse." and make the other side prove they're legit. But they won't.
@@rodiculous9464 Yup. Then TH-cam gets caught in a war between accusers and counter-accusers, having to staff more people to deal with the never-ending tide of bullshit accusations. Their current stance is likely the result of not being able to afford removing the hornet's nest that formed on their property, so they definitely don't want to touch it unless they absolutely have to, even though their users are getting stung by hornets every day.
Better solution: If someone is gonna file a claim, they should have to file it with an attorney's name. Send the attached attorney's name to the accused. TH-cam can verify that the attorney really exists. The accused can call up the law firm where the attorney works to gain confirmation or denial of the attorney's involvement. If the named attorney did not consent to having their name in the claim, the attorney can contact TH-cam with the false-claim details and have the false claim stricken. As for small creators with legitimate claims, there are some fairly affordable attorneys out there. And as for false-claimers who get legit attorneys, you now have the attorney's name and can file an official complaint against the attorney for misconduct- along with a bunch of other remedial actions. Doing it this way should eliminate a lot of false claims and strikes before they even reach the victim.
It's complicated to explain but basically adding that button could (key word: could, not will) make TH-cam legally culpable if your dispute goes to court. So they'd rather it just not exist at all
Agree. There should be an intermediate step before it needs to get to the legal recourse. I understand the point with the site being as big as it is they can't have a human verify everything, and want to leave it up to the creators to legally settle everything themselves but creators like TechLead just show why the system isn't as good as it should be. All I heard from his statement was he is trying to get personal info so he can blackmail creators into not covering him negativity otherwise he will threaten to dox them.
@@TheCommanderTacoat a minimum there should be some kind of verification process of people claiming copyright violation (like drivers license for individuals and business tax ID number for incorporated parties), where a VERIFIED legal name and address is provided and them given to the person making the claim. This puts an end to "ad rev for a 3rd party" and has mutually assured destruction for the people filing false claims to get personal information. Yeah, it's too easy for major media companies to abuse the DMCA since there hasn't been a real court case setting precedent and clearly defining what is and isn't fair use, and this doesn't stop that since I don't think Walt Disney Company at 150 Royal Street Suit 101 Canton MA 02021 tax ID number 952412883 has a problem with people knowing that information (publicly available information I got was a google search), but it does stop "ad rev for a third party," identity unknown and Vince Vintage hacker stalker who is hiding his identity while trying to ruin Vince's career.
based facts Yes Yeah Yup Uh-huh Certainly Indeed Absolutely Definitely Of course Affirmative Roger (commonly used in radio communication) Aye (nautical or Scottish English) OK / Okay Alright All right Right on Correct Precisely Bingo Check (as in "check that box") Got it Note Understood Taken note Affirmed Concur Agree True Correcto (slang) Si (Spanish) Oui (French) Ja (German) Hai (Japanese) Ne (Russian) Sim (Portuguese) Hai (Hindi)
Instead of going through actual court proceedings, she fled the country. If she was confident tech lead shouldn't have custody over THEIR child she could have gone through the legal system which is heavily biased towards women, but no, she chose to escape. Make of this what you want
A demerit system would resolve this. YT needs to put in place a system where you get a maximum of 3 disputed takedowns, just like a channel gets three strikes. If you issue a DMCA takedown and it’s successfully disputed, your account is gone then and there. If you issue the takedown and then retract it, you get a strike. Three strikes and your channel is gone. That would cause those who issue these DMCA claims to think, “Do I _really_ want to do that here?” It would limit DMCA takedowns to actual, legitimately provable claims only and protect smaller channels from abuse.
Everyone wants that, it's been suggested numerous times, but i wonder, is that even legally possible without TH-cam losing safe harbour provision? After all you have a problem then that someone can start a campaign against a channel by creating hundreds of channels and all of them stealing content. Now obviously the rightful owner of the content needs to dispute them; and by all reason some disputes will fail just because no system is perfect. Like you don't want to give leverage to people who abuse the DMCA system illegally, but you also don't want to give leverage to people who might be up to these sorts of things, right.
@@keithh5159 Probably true but doing something shady or allowing someone to do something shady just because you make money from it doesn’t make it right. “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” Not that I would say Google even _has_ a soul, for they sold that a long long time ago, but I digress.
I had forgotten about Techlead. I remember him being a big farse regarding his career, and a lot of the information he gave in his videos regarding tech was either wrong or just plain garbage.
People don't get rich the way they claim in TH-cam videos giving financial advice, they get rich from the video of misleading financial advice they trick other people with.
He never mentioned it (at least in his early videos), but he was fired by Facebook. When I found out about that, it made total sense to me because not only does he have a massive ego, demanding respect from random people, he's also completely unable to take criticism from anyone. If you work on a team of software engineers you are going to have to accept things like code reviews and performance evaluations.
@@justhecuke DMCA has the safe harbour provision, which basically means that if TH-cam acts in good faith in copyright complaints they're immune from related prosecution. Beyond that, youtube does nothing. They could stand up for creators in situations where there is repetitive abuse by a bad faith actor, but they don't.
TH-cam’s business is advertising if you are making a video that goes against what they’re advertising they aren’t going to allow counter advertisement if you want to influence people at a certain point you have to pay TH-cam for the privilege
It's a necessary evil, unfortuantely. Otherwise, Google would be hit with lawsuits bigger than the gdp of France and all video hosting sites would be banned within 6 months
@@smalltime0 YT trying to define "abuse" extrajudicially is what I'm saying would break good faith. If the courts don't say it is abuse, but Google does and punished people for it, that doesn't look like good faith execution of DMCA. That looks like YT supplanting the legal system.
Wow the timing of this is insane. My boyfriend recently just got hit with three false claims on his channel with completely made up names and emails, clearly targeted although who knows why. They also attacked an associated channel, different person, because the content revolves around the same people. Absolute scumbag scammers. Can content creators file a class action lawsuit against youtube for this? Seriously, shit needs to change and people need protection.
To help your boyfriend, have a look for a cheap copyright lawyer and your boyfriend can use their details instead of his own personal details to appeal the false copyright claim. Because the other side is using false details then they won't be able to submit the legal paperwork within 10 days and the copyright strike will fall off of his channel.
basically, there is this youtube lawyer channel LegalEagle, and they cover topics like this (albeit more populist topics). They might be interested in this topic, and would probably cover it, and if needed might suggest organizing something like this. Idk
Just BLOCK. A lot of them are just scammers from South East Asia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore, India, China, Russia, Arab Nations, etc. They all have one thing in common: THEY WANT YOUR MONEY.
This is a perfect example of how people, who may very well be intellectually gifted or successful in some area, can be incredibly challenged in other areas. The guy can talk Etherium all day, but obviously has no idea what copyright means and why it's a bigger deal than shutting detractors up. It's gonna backfire eventually.
I'm not a legal expert, but this feels in the realm of tortious interference. When the first 24 hours dictates the success of a product is willfully disputed in an illegitimate way, like IDK, sending a borderline fraudulent legal document (copyright) to a third party (TH-cam) to disrupt business (views=ad rev)
Yeah I'd agree. His only defence would be acting in negligence, which is open to major studios that use automated systems, but in his case he clearly admits to it on camera. The problem is they'd have to use his video confession diary in court, and anybody watching that would quickly be bored to death. The other issue is he has the copyright to it, he'd just DMCA the court.
@@smalltime0 You can’t dmca the court, and something one party publicly posted is usually very much fair game to bring up and question about if he takes the stand.
I agree, the DMCA system has been so broken for YEARS I have seen countless videos about it going back a very long time that affected all sorts of content creators in communities that dont even have any correlation to each other except in this issue. I think that this mega platform can fix it, though
Stilles used this way. Even in this context. Sayings and words having different meanings depending on context is not uncommon. @@blockchainprofessor.x
@@im_cart8656Ahh yes, because expressing ourselves includes misleading people into scams or using a platform to harass people you don't like and nothing happens from it. It's totally better the way it is 🙄
They really do! Too bad most people are too stupid to realize why some people need policed and think their freedoms would be taken away. Tbh I wish the internet was a privilege like driving. A lot of people don't deserve to be online if they're gonna act shitty and stupid blatantly
That might be an issue, TH-cam or Google LLC will not use a risky move like get involved in copyright claims or anything that will involve court, all they can do is automated review 😢
Great video! I’m a classical pianist, and so I am very familiar with this problem. The major record labels DMCA every recording, since we’re all recording the same pieces, the algorithm misidentifies the our recordings! Even though it is my own recording, I have to do extra steps to publish my music. Super frustrating to get these copyright trolls!
@@secondchairmusic I am planning to start posting again, so I’ll have to dispute each claim. It’s just time consuming and like Muta says, it kills the momentum of creativity…The algorithm is such a lazy solution. I know you can dispute them, but it shouldn’t be necessary!
Tech Lead has a point on that there's no journalism on TH-cam. (only monetization and clickbait ) TH-cam operates as a privately owned platform where Google sets the rules, algorithms, and policies. Creators and users often feel a sense of community, but ultimately, Google retains control over how the platform is managed.
I believe 90% of his videos are satire. if you really listen theres a lot of humor in it. But i think as of that past year or 2 he went down the crypto scamming path
I don't think it's satire. Google is full of those sorts of people who are so out of it it seems like satire to normal people, but it is really how they are.
Tech lead has a superiority complex. He's probably a narcissist too. Thought he was just trolling at first but I think it's not an act, he's actually malicious and vindictive.
Someone needs to counter sue for loss of revenue and name youtube as a co-defendant because they refuse to enforce the rules on their platform when there is clear evidence of a breach of contract doing harm to other creators... or some junk.
It is not YT's place to decide these things. YT's job is to be an intermediary for the process. They are not a party to it, and injecting themselves into it is a legal minefield best left untouched. This is ultimately a civil dispute between two parties. YT is required by law to honor DMCA in a neutral manner.
@@justhecuke I mean he's admitting to breaking their terms so they should punish him accordingly. I'm not specifically talking about youtube taking legal action.
@@jillsandwichorsometh has a court said anything? Because if not, YT is injecting itself into a legal dispute it isn't a part of. Without a finding of abuse by a court, it is unlikely YT will take any action, because that action would open YT to liability if they were wrong. Because then it would look like YT is purposefully violating DMCA.
@@jillsandwichorsometh it is, you just don't realize it. The entire DMCA process is a legal process. YT's role in it is described in DMCA. If they interfere, they are injecting themselves into that legal process. It is not very complicated. You just need to realize that this whole back and forth between creators on YT is a legal process, even though most creators don't seem to realize this. If YT punishes someone for making DMCA claims, without any sort of real legal resolution to those claims, then YT runs the very real risk of violating DMCA because they are going outside of their described role. Or of losing their platform designation, which shields them from liability for content that they host.
15:32: Note that if he doesn't sue, you can sue him for frivolous copyright strike. Then seek damages and seek restitution. Then use the evidence you have at the court itself that he always intended to abuse youtube's system to obtain information he's not entitled to.
YES THANK YOU FOR TALKING ABOUT THIS. I’ve been seeing this story unfold with coffee since he dropped his video and now with internet anarchist. Since u have such a big voice I hope TH-cam will finally put an end to false claims made by tech lead. (Hopefully they will stop false DMCA all together but ik that will never happen there to lazy to find an alternative)
they will do absolutely nothing. Google spends billions yearly loosing cases in courts, pays hundreds of millions in fake invoices. A 1 mil subscriber celeb will absolutely not be worth their attention.
Jesus Christ what an absolute psychopath. this is BY FAR the WORST case of abuse of the copyright system I've seen yet. And I didn't think it could even get any worse. But oh boy was I wrong.
Disclaimer, not a lawyer. You are 100 percent correct that false copyright strikes are illegal. That is because if you ever try, the last thing you need to sign on the bottom is a checkbox that says you swear it's true under the penalty of perjury. Perjury is a federal crime. It is a felony. It is a maximum of 5 years in prison. And false copy right striking is very much an act of perjury.
No, only prosecutors can bring forward claims of perjury. It's out of the hands of private citizens. You would have to petition prosecutors (via an attorney $$$) in order to get it assessed.
Also, perjury criminal cases have similar massive burdens of proof for convictions as defamation for civil cases where you have to extensively prove that they intentionally & knowingly lied/misinformed TH-cam's copyright system/staff-- meaning that prosecutors rarely prosecute perjury at all. Even cases that look "open-and-shut" get obfuscated all the time through the most excruciatingly stupid arguments.
But the problem with youtube is you can't identity those who orchestrated mass flag behind the scene. I've been experience youtube for 10+ years now. There's a lot of anonymous childish folks who succeeded to take many of genuinely good video down. We can't do nothing unless they openly brag about falsely claiming copyright the content. Btw you remember those viral vaporwave macintosh 420 song? It used to have a music video with dreamy cgi, it got 20M views. And some bastard take that stuff down. And I forgot to download the video arrgh.. Oh btw, the original gta v ufo video are actually made by local youtuber from my country, it went so popular that it got into Rockstar main website back in ps3 era.. and you guessed it.. some bastard take his video down with false copyright claim yet other cringy gta channel did not get the same treatment. If you did not believe me.. Go ask the person directly his account is Tara arts on his social media, he will say the same thing as what I told you
I was a journalist and can say you are a journalist. It's about gathering information and presenting it accurately. You don't need validation from a corporation or some union or college.
Thank you for bringing this to light to a whole new audience. I hope this guy gets whats coming to him. He is abusing the system and admitting it on camera
TH-cam is going the way of Netflix. Becoming so obsessed with on "issue" like adblockers that they refuse to even acknowledge the thousands of other issues that plague their system. Like Netflix and their anti password sharing obsession.
One of the crazy things about the youtube DMCA system is, someone who is not even the channel owner of the copyrighted content can file a DMCA takedown. Someone could claim they're SomeOrdinaryGamers, claim hundreds of videos, and TH-cam does NOTHING about it. If someone wants to claim DMCA on someone. Fine. Put your channel at risk. In order to file a DMCA claim on TH-cam in my opinion, you need to be signed into your own youtube channel and make the claim from there. You also must have a certain tenure on TH-cam with a certain numer of uploads and watch time in order to verify that your account isnt just a troll account that is made for the sole purpose of false flagging. False claim once, you get a warning. False claim twice, you get a slap on the wrist you cant file any more DMCAs for a year or something. False claim 3 times, channel termination.
That's dumb. A lot of the time some other company is managing the DMCA process, not the actual rights holder. Also, YT is a victim of DMCA just like everyone else. They are forced into this by the government, including all of the stupid parts. While YT could probably take the outcome of DMCA claims into consideration, it is very, very rare for them to get to an official false claim status as they are either settled or dropped. And dropping a claim doesn't mean it is false, it could just mean that you don't want to go through the time and effort of a trial, even if you are totally in the right. Those things are expensive, and you can never guarantee outcomes. Happens all of the time.
@@justhecuke true, however in this case Techlead openly admitted that the takedown was not because of actual DMCA concerns, but was used as a "hazing ritual". That should be grounds to say it was a false claim.
@@MadLover4690 You could argue that, sure, but TL never said he didn't think he had a valid claim, just that it was too much trouble to pursue seriously. If I am a rights holder, I can throw out thousands of these claims with the plan to pursue none because it is not worth the money. That I do not follow through to a real court case does not mean I did not have legitimate grounds to file DMCA. And that I have other motives as well does not mean I do not have the required motive, which is to protect my content. I'm not saying you have a good argument, I'm saying it probably isn't enough by itself to reach the bar you're going for. In court, I don't think a judge would agree that the DMCA claims were made maliciously or in bad faith. He very obviously owns the copyright, he knows that, and he appears to believe that no real good faith use of it is happening (the part about no real journalism and such). He will most likely ultimately lose the case, but that is very different from knowingly making a false claim, which is what you are saying he did.
@@justhecuke Then the valid claims would stand up in court and there would be no risk to the channel. If someone outside of TH-cam wished to make a claim, it could be necessary for them to file the claim in writing via their attorney. The attorney's information would then be on file with TH-cam for future claims. I'm not saying that its OK for people on youtube to upload unedited non transformative pieces. What I am saying is that DMCA is a legal process and should have consequences for those who do abuse the system. For those who dont abuse the legal system and are having their works ripped off and uploaded to youtube in whole pieces, the legal process protects them and their channels if they have one. I just think that the legal process should be handled by lawyers and not a form that just anyone can fill out and even impersonate people and potentially jeopardize thei actual content creators channels as well. DMCA is not a weapon to be wielded against people who you dont like criticizing you.
DMCA abuse needs to be stopped. Either hire a lawyer ($$$) or rent a PO box ($) to avoid being doxxed. Update: You may not be able to use a PO box to counter a DMCA takedown. I am not a creator.
I thought I was the only one in hating him, since I almost never saw comments or videos opposing him till like 3 years ago. Turns out he's worse than I thought. Good job everyone who keeps exposing him.
I think all you need is an expert assigned by a brokerage company that will trade for you and handle your capital professionally and give you weekly returns of investment without any extra fees attached
YES!!! That's exactly her name (Deborah Davis) so many people have recommended highly about her and am just starting with her 😊 from Brisbane Australia🇦🇺
Welcome to lawfare. The law gets abused. Every day, everywhere. This is how it works. I'm surprised that big channels like IA don't already have lawyers.
Instead of those with thick accents and a habit of using phrases and expressions unique to Indian English (that they expect you to know without need for explanation)? Yes. He is also my favorite.
At a minimum, abusing the dmca like this should result in being able to recover attorney fees if the originating party backs out of the dmca strike like a coward because they know there is no legal bounds for making the strike.
You'd have to prove the abuse, but I think it is already the case that you can seek attorneys fees as damages for maliciously brought cases that the other party knew had no real merit. The problem here is that Tech Lead seems to think he can lawfully do what he is doing, which makes recovering attorneys fees unlikely in most US jurisdictions. Then again, the fees would only be a few thousand, if that, considering that the civil case would be easy to dispute, given current facts. And tax deductible as business expenses.
Somehow I think this video is a test for tech lead to try and take this video down. And let’s see what happens.. hope he tries and ordinary takes him to court lol
Thanks for making a video on this. I totally agree with your take on how TH-cam should handle false strikes. It‘s a shame that there are so many other channels who do that who are smart enough not to openly admit it. TH-cam needs to start actually enforcing their TOS!
I honestly think channels like LegalEagle would be awesome if they started to protect other youtubers without the means to protect themselves with their Patreon, Sponsor, and/or TH-cam ad-revenue as a way to help out. This help shouldn't be for everyone that makes a dumb mistake but the Internet Anarchist situation would be a great example where the system is abused.
I need to stress very specifically here in case Techlead is watching this. I firmly believe any clip used in this was in "fair use". Any attempt to falsely DMCA will be challenged legally in court.
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Techlead fell off
challenged?? youre just gonna fight them live on court??
Dang bro said he ready to scrap in court.
Go Muta!
Thank you Muta for your strength to stand up towards true degeneracy when it is called for. You don't just say the words you back it up with action and that means a lot to all of us who care for this site and human decency in general.
Thank you so much for covering this issue and for your support behind the scenes…❤
I greatly appreciate it. I’m relieved we got my channel strike removed and that TechLead deleted his laughably bad video…
Man, congrats on that.
Tech lead is funny. It was probably an accident
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A couple were scamming investors for over 10 years in Canada. Were charged 3 times by police and let go. They scammed the wrong family and were found dead a few days ago in Toronto.
Oh noo....
That does improve my impression of Toronto…
who?
Lmao
The good ending.
He straight-up ADMITTED IT. This dude is drunk on his own ego holy shit.
@@justhecuke doesn't matter if he's an immigrant from China, it's irrelevant, probably from mental or personal issues
He let the greed and money get to his head
@@КГБКолДжорджКостанца it's relevant in that the legal system he learned about wherever he is originally from is likely very different from the US.
He probably doesn't realize that his statements are hurting him legally.
@@justhecuke what makes you think he's a chinese immigrant lol
@@justhecuke could be and ego
Though is he an immigrant from China? I don't know his background
Just a reminder that TH-cam has punished creators like TYBS and Pewdiepie before punishing doxxers and pedophiles.
tybs?
Think You Before Sleep?
Got a sicko replying in here
Ok
@@ModernKiller88 Thank You Before Sleep, the gracious and generous man who thanks people before he sleeps
Techlead: *Burns someone else's house down.
Techlead: "It's just a welcoming ceremony."
why else would they call it a house warming party if not for fire?
Doxxing as a millionaire...
Also known as DaaM
It's actually concerning, especially when they are a former Google employee
It's like a corrupt army chief that ravages your house
Bro runs the show
RIGHT?! Lmao
>spelling doxing with 2 x's
NGMI
When I first saw TechLead I assumed he was playing an exaggerated character, the self-aggrandizing techie who dispenses really bad advice to aspiring software engineers. I thought it was meant to be a clever parody of advice-for-success channels. Apparently the creature I believed was meant to be a parody is the actual man.
This sort of man is very common in tech. I understand why people think it is a parody, but it is not. Tech is really just that awful.
Yea, I thought Techlead was a character too ,but after his million token I saw him as the scumbag that he really is...
@@thanors2 for me that was the exact moment that he confirmed he truly was actually the character we thought he was playing ironically. wild.
Yeah, I actually found his early vids funny viewing them as a sarcastic parody.
He started drifting into seeming not-so-much-a-parody a bit before the “my wife left me (as a millionaire)” vid(s).
I still can’t work out if he was serious all along, or started with parody, before having some kind of breakdown, not knowing which bit of what he was doing before was working and adapt g the persona, before descending into malicious activities & crypto scams.
@@Will-kt5jk Tbh, I think the parodies was his real personality we just thought he was kidding. Techlead always has an ego which always rubbed me the wrong way, on top of the guy seem real selfish. I noticed he would do anything for money like doxing, redirecting traffic from a competitor’s site real shady shit…
He deleted all of his tech related videos and turned comments off on all videos, this guy is a coward
It's that bad
His supposed "tech" content was never anything special. You can find the same material in many many sophomore-level computer science lectures on TH-cam.
"tech is dead"
nah ur career is dead
He made is millions he doesn’t need TH-cam anymore he wants to hide now as his name is turned to shit
@@seanwilkinson6361 my dude comments are off and he made a video named “I quit tech”
"How I copyright struck a video (as a millionaire)"
Why do millionaires have such difficulty learning easy things
How I broke the law, as a millionaire.
@@КГБКолДжорджКостанца Because he would make a video titled, "How I am above the law, as a millionair."
How I reply to a comment (as a millionaire)
@@ricky4673it’s pretty much true. You can get connections with politicians, then bribe uh I mean lobby them to do things for you. You can also pay off the police too to end investigations early or even reassign people who do get close or something. Or just orchestrate a murder and cover it up.
Or I may have been watching too much tv.
Either way, it could probably be possible for a rich person to do.
"If you want to criticise me, I want the entire world to know your personal details."
Yeah, that's not business, that extortion and threats.
Seeing Muta, Internet Anarchist, Coffeezilla and Charlie whooping Techlead's ass is like seeing 4 different versions of Spider-Man beating up Mysterio in Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions
They all do it for money....
@@s.v.discussion8665, you seem to be mistaken. _They_ do it to rightfully expose Techlead. _Techlead_ is the one trying to do it for the money, attention, and overall just to stroke his overly-inflated ego
Assemble!
@@s.v.discussion8665 your telling me they get to shaft a known scammer and someone who is directly advertising they are doing the scummiest thing possible on youtube AND GET PAID?
who wouldnt
Rey mysteriously?
"This is my hazing ritual.." Actual bully tactics, great job admitting to it. The sheer audacity of some people
I used to work as a counselor at a drug rehab that primarily served probationers and homeless. We had lots of narcissists and sociopaths in my program, just because of the client population, there's a lot of these personality disorders in the overlap between criminal justice and addiction. I learned to listen very closely to certain queues and identify clients who were going to be a problem.
13:00 This thing of like, " I don't care and it doesn't bother me at all... (but I'm also not going to let this slide)" And "I'm going to put you in your place and teach you a lesson... (and show you how I have the real power here)," that's sociopath talk. If I heard someone talking like that in my group, I'd mentally add that to the "sociopath" column in my head. Normal people just don't think this way, typically. But all sociopaths do.
I know this is nothing new to people who have followed techlead, and heard an iota of techlead's real life, but I just pass that all along.
@@wolfumzThis has nothing to do with sociopathy. That is called enforcing boundaries and making sure people do not mess with you. Plenty of “normal” people think like this. They just don’t have the courage to go through with it, which is why they keep getting walked over and exploited in life.
The measure of a sociopath is the specific actions they take to this end and their severity, lack of guilt/remorse/shame, and level of irritability.
@@rinkohorowitz Not sure what you think you're responding to with the (failed) hair-splitting, but in any case, do you think "techlead" has ever known a moment of remorse or shame for any of his sliminess? He's unquestionably a sociopath, among other things.
@@wolfumz Western Psychology is an inverse bastardisation of Eastern Psychology and is a profession as part of a system. It is a system of abuse itself.
@@rinkohorowitz If you think it's justifiable to break the law in order to doxx someone and hurt their income because they criticized you and you don't want to be "messed with", you're definitely not a normal person.
Dude just tried to land the Sovereign quote from Mass Effect "They exist because we allow them to exist, and they will end, because we demand it"
Sounds like the World Government and Imu
And here's SomeOrdinaryGamer basically pulling a Shepard.
By uploading this video, he's basically saying:
_"NOT. ONE. MORE."_
Pathetic.
Hey I'm famous! I might have to strike this video since I saw my thumbnail come up @ 2:12 😂
I bet you the guy still lives with his parents, making videos COMPLETLY about other videos and channels. LOL
@@danny.cuevasbro it was a joke
@@danny.cuevas why u not put r/woosh 😭
@@espionage_extreme I forgot
As a victim of Malicious DMCA abuse myself, I say hats off to you Mutahar for addressing this. This has been something that TH-cam needs to look at and change due to the rampant abuse that has been going on for years, not only by Techlead, but many others.
I would also love for TH-cam to actually implement a live chat or a real human instead of an automated DMCA system to combat abuse, and also give us an option to report these malicious users for DMCA abuse and Ban Evasion. (If a malicious DMCA Abusing channel gets taken down, oftentimes they create alternates to re strike you).
False DMCAs are a civil matter. It is YOUR job to take action, not TH-cam's.
@@JesterAzazel😑
@@JesterAzazel it is absoloutley TH-cam's job to take action against people on thier platform that violate their stated TOS. The stated consequences for violating TOS need to be followed through or else the TOS doesnt matter and you get a platform that is in complete chaos, like we have now where TH-cam is sending the message that doxxing is 100% okay. Thats messed up.
@KayGreylai It is a legal matter, not a TH-cam matter. Unless it is someone targeting major advertisers, they aren't going to do anything
@@KayGreylai Wrong. Look up what happened with VenomFangX and Thunderf00t. Thunderf00t had to file a countersuit, and he won.
Either do your job and protect your business, or nothing will ever change. Whining about it isn't accomplishing anything.
The ENTIRE REASON this keeps happening is because people know they can get away with it because of people like you, who keep saying YT needs to handle it. Nothing has changed in the last 14 years. Counter the claim, or nothing is going to happen.
TechLead is such a joke of a human being. Constantly misleading his fan base with crypto and other shenanigans. I have no idea how he got so big
jealous youre poor
His old content wasn't this. It was deadpan humor until it no longer was just humor
Oh I can see TechLead followers are here. Hello :3 @@alexg9727
his content used to be just "I work at google so I'm very smart"
@@alexg9727 Don't be jealous. It's not a good look.
The word "haters" is a red flag. More often than not, narcissists throw it around to dismiss valid criticism.
I have the next title for the next TechLead's video... "Deleting my channel... as a millionaire."
One can hope
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eX gOoGlE, more like ex husband because even wife couldn't stand him
Again ? If i had a nickel every time he made a "quitting video" i would have a more than a few nickels
It's actually along the lines of "I quit tech.". Posted literally 13 minutes ago.
YT's too busy fighting adblockers
Only ad blockers because the bot situation is just getting worse each day as well. TH-cam should fix the bad eggs before forcing ad malware onto their users.
*sips tea 🍵 *
Punching down on those less fortunate...low blow...low blow. TH-cam can barely make ends meet and you are here attacking them.
@@LackofFaithifykek
@@LackofFaithifyOne of the funniest comments I’ve ever read
People have gotten really comfortable with the safety of being behind a screen.
real shit
And they never got punched for it, just like Mike Tyson stated.
Bingo. Internet generation
You can say stuff behind a screen but not have the balls to say it in person
@@poweroffriendship2.0 Mike Tyson is famous for being emotionally unstable.
Ah yes, TechLead, the leading example as to how to never act when you have a bigger channel. He’s done it all. Scammed his followers, false copyright struck people, doubling down on his actions, checklist complete.
sometimes the world needs bad guys
Exactly. The storylines get too boring when only good guys are around
@@PSOpwnageWe have enough of them at this point, maybe it's time to do some housekeeping
Isn't that corrupt? Isn't that immoral? Isn't that betraying a viewer's trust?
(As a Millionaire)
That guy has annoyed me since he started on TH-cam. Anytime somebody constantly uses "former FAANG Engineer" like it's a personality or something, you know you're dealing with a weirdo. It's a job. You aren't that special. There are plenty of Engineers at those companies that aren't all that great of programmers. And I can tell you that 100% as a fact as somebody who has witnessed it.
It's like someone who works at an Amazon fulfillment center and acts like he's hot shit because of it... when in reality, he was hired because Amazon will hire anybody with a pulse.
Engineers are universally obnoxious.
How do you know you're dealing with an engineer? Don't worry. They'll tell you. Frequently.
What's funny is people working at FAANG companies aren't always high quality engineers...
woosh
Im not subscribed to him nor I watch his videos regularly but Im pretty sure that it was a running joke together with adding "as a millionaire" to every title.
Dude I used to think techlead was joking for so long and then i realised how negative his 'humor' was and I just started avoiding his videos. Its sad this is even a thing.
You just don't know how to handle the reality in life.
Bro needs to get sued so that Internet Anarchist can win (as a millionaire). Tech lead finally gets to lose his millionaire status.
if only court proceedings were that easy
@@aceproductions43this one could be really slam sunk, honestly.
I mean...some factors could play into it to why it could be either in favor of Anarchist, or thrown out @@aceproductions43
@@JeremyAndersonBoise It would still be very expensive and stressful for Internet Anarchist.
What about these TH-cam ads man why they like kick me out of my Android they always be messing with my Android and stuff and I really don't like it and then like I really don't want to like pay for it and they should go f*** off
YESSS I'm so glad you covered him, I was worried Internet Anarchist getting copyright takedowns left and right by Tech dude
@@anonisnoone6125Who?
Honestly a shame cos I remember subbing to him cos his videos seemed interesting.
Someone more important than you.@@captainawf2341
I think he really screwed himself making that video on TH-cam. He literally admitted to it ON platform. We had a actual video that we can mass vote the TOS breaking on that's not just "spam report".
@@captainawf2341 SunnyV2 clone but not quite as disinformation/alt-right as SunnyV2
Sounds like he needs a "hazing ritual" where someone welcomes him to the legal system.
I love how he says court is a waste of time. He knows damn well that if he went to court he’d be screwed and probably get a second case opened for his crypto scam ☠️
All of crypto is a scam
@@123lowp .... C'mon man, not so loud..... youre gonna shatter a lot of ridiculous dreams.... and dont explain the odds of winning the lottery to them either!!
@@ZDiddy7777 LMAOOO ☠️
All TH-cam needs to do is add an option for when you're refuting a claim. "Suspected Copyright Abuse." and make the other side prove they're legit. But they won't.
Literally everyone will press that button and nothing will change. Regardless if they're really stealing copyright or not
@@rodiculous9464 Yup. Then TH-cam gets caught in a war between accusers and counter-accusers, having to staff more people to deal with the never-ending tide of bullshit accusations. Their current stance is likely the result of not being able to afford removing the hornet's nest that formed on their property, so they definitely don't want to touch it unless they absolutely have to, even though their users are getting stung by hornets every day.
Better solution: If someone is gonna file a claim, they should have to file it with an attorney's name. Send the attached attorney's name to the accused. TH-cam can verify that the attorney really exists. The accused can call up the law firm where the attorney works to gain confirmation or denial of the attorney's involvement. If the named attorney did not consent to having their name in the claim, the attorney can contact TH-cam with the false-claim details and have the false claim stricken.
As for small creators with legitimate claims, there are some fairly affordable attorneys out there. And as for false-claimers who get legit attorneys, you now have the attorney's name and can file an official complaint against the attorney for misconduct- along with a bunch of other remedial actions. Doing it this way should eliminate a lot of false claims and strikes before they even reach the victim.
It's complicated to explain but basically adding that button could (key word: could, not will) make TH-cam legally culpable if your dispute goes to court. So they'd rather it just not exist at all
@@kaijuultimax9407 pretty sure they could still be roped in regardless
The guy's a sociopath. Thank god his wife took their kid and left him. Who knows what could happen down the line.
Really dumb on YT's part even requiring personal info for counter claims.
Agree. There should be an intermediate step before it needs to get to the legal recourse. I understand the point with the site being as big as it is they can't have a human verify everything, and want to leave it up to the creators to legally settle everything themselves but creators like TechLead just show why the system isn't as good as it should be.
All I heard from his statement was he is trying to get personal info so he can blackmail creators into not covering him negativity otherwise he will threaten to dox them.
@@TheCommanderTacoat a minimum there should be some kind of verification process of people claiming copyright violation (like drivers license for individuals and business tax ID number for incorporated parties), where a VERIFIED legal name and address is provided and them given to the person making the claim. This puts an end to "ad rev for a 3rd party" and has mutually assured destruction for the people filing false claims to get personal information.
Yeah, it's too easy for major media companies to abuse the DMCA since there hasn't been a real court case setting precedent and clearly defining what is and isn't fair use, and this doesn't stop that since I don't think Walt Disney Company at 150 Royal Street Suit 101 Canton MA 02021 tax ID number 952412883 has a problem with people knowing that information (publicly available information I got was a google search), but it does stop "ad rev for a third party," identity unknown and Vince Vintage hacker stalker who is hiding his identity while trying to ruin Vince's career.
It's not YT's fault... It's part of DMCA. YT is required to collect that info for the process. Blame Congress.
It needs to be legally required for them to give some legal information in the initial complaint.
may wanna consider that the DMCA bs is the flaw here being they enforce such policy not google. That said i agree its bs.
His wife was right in taking his kid away fr.
No wonder why 😂
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Wife should've taken the channel in the divorce
Instead of going through actual court proceedings, she fled the country. If she was confident tech lead shouldn't have custody over THEIR child she could have gone through the legal system which is heavily biased towards women, but no, she chose to escape. Make of this what you want
Really dodged a bullet to parenthood
A demerit system would resolve this. YT needs to put in place a system where you get a maximum of 3 disputed takedowns, just like a channel gets three strikes. If you issue a DMCA takedown and it’s successfully disputed, your account is gone then and there. If you issue the takedown and then retract it, you get a strike. Three strikes and your channel is gone. That would cause those who issue these DMCA claims to think, “Do I _really_ want to do that here?” It would limit DMCA takedowns to actual, legitimately provable claims only and protect smaller channels from abuse.
Everyone wants that, it's been suggested numerous times, but i wonder, is that even legally possible without TH-cam losing safe harbour provision?
After all you have a problem then that someone can start a campaign against a channel by creating hundreds of channels and all of them stealing content. Now obviously the rightful owner of the content needs to dispute them; and by all reason some disputes will fail just because no system is perfect. Like you don't want to give leverage to people who abuse the DMCA system illegally, but you also don't want to give leverage to people who might be up to these sorts of things, right.
U-Tube has the right to remove him now, but tech lead is making too much for them in advertising I suspect.
@@keithh5159 Probably true but doing something shady or allowing someone to do something shady just because you make money from it doesn’t make it right. “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” Not that I would say Google even _has_ a soul, for they sold that a long long time ago, but I digress.
@@keithh5159exactly as long as they make money they turn a blind eye
To add on to this, if the video that got falsely DMCAd got struck down then reuploaded; the accuser should cover lost revenue.
I had forgotten about Techlead. I remember him being a big farse regarding his career, and a lot of the information he gave in his videos regarding tech was either wrong or just plain garbage.
People don't get rich the way they claim in TH-cam videos giving financial advice, they get rich from the video of misleading financial advice they trick other people with.
He never mentioned it (at least in his early videos), but he was fired by Facebook. When I found out about that, it made total sense to me because not only does he have a massive ego, demanding respect from random people, he's also completely unable to take criticism from anyone. If you work on a team of software engineers you are going to have to accept things like code reviews and performance evaluations.
Professional grifter
It has been 10+ years and TH-cam still has a problem with bigger youtube channels or corporations copyright striking fair use videos.
This is a legal system problem, not a YT problem. All platforms are affected.
Blame Congress and the fat cat special interest groups who control them.
@@justhecuke DMCA has the safe harbour provision, which basically means that if TH-cam acts in good faith in copyright complaints they're immune from related prosecution.
Beyond that, youtube does nothing. They could stand up for creators in situations where there is repetitive abuse by a bad faith actor, but they don't.
TH-cam’s business is advertising if you are making a video that goes against what they’re advertising they aren’t going to allow counter advertisement if you want to influence people at a certain point you have to pay TH-cam for the privilege
It's a necessary evil, unfortuantely. Otherwise, Google would be hit with lawsuits bigger than the gdp of France and all video hosting sites would be banned within 6 months
@@smalltime0 YT trying to define "abuse" extrajudicially is what I'm saying would break good faith. If the courts don't say it is abuse, but Google does and punished people for it, that doesn't look like good faith execution of DMCA. That looks like YT supplanting the legal system.
That guy is one stubbed toe away from building a secret lair inside a dormant volcano before threatening to take over the world.
His poor ex-wife and kid
Techlead is the only guy I saw defend Sam Bankman Fried.
There were plenty more.
Wow the timing of this is insane. My boyfriend recently just got hit with three false claims on his channel with completely made up names and emails, clearly targeted although who knows why. They also attacked an associated channel, different person, because the content revolves around the same people. Absolute scumbag scammers. Can content creators file a class action lawsuit against youtube for this? Seriously, shit needs to change and people need protection.
To help your boyfriend, have a look for a cheap copyright lawyer and your boyfriend can use their details instead of his own personal details to appeal the false copyright claim. Because the other side is using false details then they won't be able to submit the legal paperwork within 10 days and the copyright strike will fall off of his channel.
basically, there is this youtube lawyer channel LegalEagle, and they cover topics like this (albeit more populist topics). They might be interested in this topic, and would probably cover it, and if needed might suggest organizing something like this. Idk
Just BLOCK. A lot of them are just scammers from South East Asia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore, India, China, Russia, Arab Nations, etc. They all have one thing in common: THEY WANT YOUR MONEY.
I haven’t watched you in years bro and your videos still hit. Might start watching again
Drop the addy we got them glizzies
This is a perfect example of how people, who may very well be intellectually gifted or successful in some area, can be incredibly challenged in other areas. The guy can talk Etherium all day, but obviously has no idea what copyright means and why it's a bigger deal than shutting detractors up. It's gonna backfire eventually.
I'm not a legal expert, but this feels in the realm of tortious interference. When the first 24 hours dictates the success of a product is willfully disputed in an illegitimate way, like IDK, sending a borderline fraudulent legal document (copyright) to a third party (TH-cam) to disrupt business (views=ad rev)
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Yeah I'd agree. His only defence would be acting in negligence, which is open to major studios that use automated systems, but in his case he clearly admits to it on camera.
The problem is they'd have to use his video confession diary in court, and anybody watching that would quickly be bored to death. The other issue is he has the copyright to it, he'd just DMCA the court.
@@smalltime0 You can’t dmca the court, and something one party publicly posted is usually very much fair game to bring up and question about if he takes the stand.
I agree, the DMCA system has been so broken for YEARS I have seen countless videos about it going back a very long time that affected all sorts of content creators in communities that dont even have any correlation to each other except in this issue. I think that this mega platform can fix it, though
He was FINGERED!?!? Am I on the right website?!?!
and he liked it 😊
@@66ixty9ine scratchy scratchy
I can't recall if it was from the 1920s or the 1940s, but it used to be a term used by the "coppers" when they caught someone
Stilles used this way. Even in this context. Sayings and words having different meanings depending on context is not uncommon. @@blockchainprofessor.x
TH-cam needs to recreate an entire video review industry
@@im_cart8656Ahh yes, because expressing ourselves includes misleading people into scams or using a platform to harass people you don't like and nothing happens from it. It's totally better the way it is 🙄
They really do! Too bad most people are too stupid to realize why some people need policed and think their freedoms would be taken away. Tbh I wish the internet was a privilege like driving. A lot of people don't deserve to be online if they're gonna act shitty and stupid blatantly
Does it mean that CNN will be blocked?
That might be an issue, TH-cam or Google LLC will not use a risky move like get involved in copyright claims or anything that will involve court, all they can do is automated review 😢
@@mythbuster6126 CNN, Fox, MSNBC, BBC, all these are just bad
So much of freedom of expression. Deleting content that you DO NOT like or have issues with.
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Great video! I’m a classical pianist, and so I am very familiar with this problem. The major record labels DMCA every recording, since we’re all recording the same pieces, the algorithm misidentifies the our recordings! Even though it is my own recording, I have to do extra steps to publish my music. Super frustrating to get these copyright trolls!
I’ve seen that happen to a couple people. It’s complete BS!
My friend has just started to upload piano covers and he immediately got a claim. What do you do to deal with them?
@@secondchairmusic I am planning to start posting again, so I’ll have to dispute each claim. It’s just time consuming and like Muta says, it kills the momentum of creativity…The algorithm is such a lazy solution. I know you can dispute them, but it shouldn’t be necessary!
Tech Lead has a point on that there's no journalism on TH-cam. (only monetization and clickbait )
TH-cam operates as a privately owned platform where Google sets the rules, algorithms, and policies. Creators and users often feel a sense of community, but ultimately, Google retains control over how the platform is managed.
wasnt this the guy that made those cringe "as a millionaire" vids
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Yup.
I believe 90% of his videos are satire. if you really listen theres a lot of humor in it. But i think as of that past year or 2 he went down the crypto scamming path
I don't think it's satire. Google is full of those sorts of people who are so out of it it seems like satire to normal people, but it is really how they are.
@@richshrimp7680I think he’s being post-ironic, humorously sincere
He may be ruining TH-cam but he's ruining it as a millionaire.
i doubt he even is a millionaire
@@stoneyhigh05 didn't one of his attackers uncover how he embezzled 3.3 millions out of his Million Token?
Tech lead has a superiority complex. He's probably a narcissist too. Thought he was just trolling at first but I think it's not an act, he's actually malicious and vindictive.
Someone needs to counter sue for loss of revenue and name youtube as a co-defendant because they refuse to enforce the rules on their platform when there is clear evidence of a breach of contract doing harm to other creators... or some junk.
Imagine admitting all of this on a youtube video and youtube still does nothing
It is not YT's place to decide these things. YT's job is to be an intermediary for the process. They are not a party to it, and injecting themselves into it is a legal minefield best left untouched.
This is ultimately a civil dispute between two parties. YT is required by law to honor DMCA in a neutral manner.
@@justhecuke I mean he's admitting to breaking their terms so they should punish him accordingly. I'm not specifically talking about youtube taking legal action.
@@jillsandwichorsometh has a court said anything? Because if not, YT is injecting itself into a legal dispute it isn't a part of.
Without a finding of abuse by a court, it is unlikely YT will take any action, because that action would open YT to liability if they were wrong. Because then it would look like YT is purposefully violating DMCA.
@@justhecuke that’s not what I’m talking about though
@@jillsandwichorsometh it is, you just don't realize it. The entire DMCA process is a legal process. YT's role in it is described in DMCA. If they interfere, they are injecting themselves into that legal process.
It is not very complicated. You just need to realize that this whole back and forth between creators on YT is a legal process, even though most creators don't seem to realize this.
If YT punishes someone for making DMCA claims, without any sort of real legal resolution to those claims, then YT runs the very real risk of violating DMCA because they are going outside of their described role. Or of losing their platform designation, which shields them from liability for content that they host.
15:32: Note that if he doesn't sue, you can sue him for frivolous copyright strike. Then seek damages and seek restitution. Then use the evidence you have at the court itself that he always intended to abuse youtube's system to obtain information he's not entitled to.
YES THANK YOU FOR TALKING ABOUT THIS. I’ve been seeing this story unfold with coffee since he dropped his video and now with internet anarchist. Since u have such a big voice I hope TH-cam will finally put an end to false claims made by tech lead. (Hopefully they will stop false DMCA all together but ik that will never happen there to lazy to find an alternative)
they will do absolutely nothing. Google spends billions yearly loosing cases in courts, pays hundreds of millions in fake invoices. A 1 mil subscriber celeb will absolutely not be worth their attention.
TH-cam needs to remove him and SSSniperWolf
TH-cam will never remove Sniper wolf.
@@theemotionalremix not with that attitude
@@shadowmaster435 lol
won't happen, keep wishing! xD
@@WilliamBrwn again not with that attitude
Jesus Christ what an absolute psychopath. this is BY FAR the WORST case of abuse of the copyright system I've seen yet. And I didn't think it could even get any worse. But oh boy was I wrong.
TechLead Fell off 💀
He was never on
he was never on. Always been a weirdo
@@xxstealerxx Y is he a weirdo?
god bless this comment
@UTubeTrollPoliceNWO Love it when TH-cam puts "Translate to English" on these weirdos, fucking comical
Disclaimer, not a lawyer.
You are 100 percent correct that false copyright strikes are illegal. That is because if you ever try, the last thing you need to sign on the bottom is a checkbox that says you swear it's true under the penalty of perjury. Perjury is a federal crime. It is a felony. It is a maximum of 5 years in prison. And false copy right striking is very much an act of perjury.
If it’s a federal crime, can the police be called for this? Genuine question, not American
No, only prosecutors can bring forward claims of perjury. It's out of the hands of private citizens. You would have to petition prosecutors (via an attorney $$$) in order to get it assessed.
It's hard to prosecute when there are bigger fish to fry
Also, perjury criminal cases have similar massive burdens of proof for convictions as defamation for civil cases where you have to extensively prove that they intentionally & knowingly lied/misinformed TH-cam's copyright system/staff-- meaning that prosecutors rarely prosecute perjury at all. Even cases that look "open-and-shut" get obfuscated all the time through the most excruciatingly stupid arguments.
But the problem with youtube is you can't identity those who orchestrated mass flag behind the scene. I've been experience youtube for 10+ years now. There's a lot of anonymous childish folks who succeeded to take many of genuinely good video down.
We can't do nothing unless they openly brag about falsely claiming copyright the content.
Btw you remember those viral vaporwave macintosh 420 song? It used to have a music video with dreamy cgi, it got 20M views. And some bastard take that stuff down. And I forgot to download the video arrgh..
Oh btw, the original gta v ufo video are actually made by local youtuber from my country, it went so popular that it got into Rockstar main website back in ps3 era.. and you guessed it.. some bastard take his video down with false copyright claim yet other cringy gta channel did not get the same treatment. If you did not believe me.. Go ask the person directly his account is Tara arts on his social media, he will say the same thing as what I told you
I was a journalist and can say you are a journalist. It's about gathering information and presenting it accurately. You don't need validation from a corporation or some union or college.
Thank you for bringing this to light to a whole new audience. I hope this guy gets whats coming to him. He is abusing the system and admitting it on camera
It’s almost like all tech channels on TH-cam are becoming bad. It sucks.
TH-cam is going the way of Netflix. Becoming so obsessed with on "issue" like adblockers that they refuse to even acknowledge the thousands of other issues that plague their system. Like Netflix and their anti password sharing obsession.
You know you’re in trouble when the caramel Canadian is exposing you
Caramel Canadian?! 😂
Found out about this guy by Internet Anarchist, and TechLead was scummy for doing that to him
There is a style of assholes, who abuse and know that it takes a while for anything to happen and that good faith people won't be an asshole back.
That's so true most modern news media don't do even close to as good as journalism as in these videos.
Let’s go boys, here comes the cavalry. Next is Charlie lmao
@UTubeTrollPoliceNWO bot spotted
fk charlie, he’s never had a bad take
charlie has never had a bad take
@@RightfulArchon186 Report him. Let's get him out of here.
@@EXPANDlNGhe had. He thought it was a good idea to tale that raid money
I peeped the cy-borg book in the back, happy to know you nor only have good taste in games but also ttrpgs
I'm glad I'm not the only one constantly looking in the backgrounds of videos
This dude reeks of elitist tech bro, even back then I couldn’t tell the troll from the legit but goddamn he’s guilty of it
He's a scammer 😂
if everything wrong with Silicon Valley had a face, it would be him
Indian TH-cam tutorials got me through computer science classes
@UTubeTrollPoliceNWOmommy needs her iPad back
theres an Indian tutorial for everything out there
Hope that bot gets banned
@@loaflad I've seen this shit for probably a week now. How tf has it still not been banned? Is youtube ever gonna fix this stupid bot problem?
ilikejewtub
Nothing says "democracy" like censorship.
democracy doesnt exist, censor everything that is wrong
The fact muda is willing to take it all the way to court makes me so happy.
One of the crazy things about the youtube DMCA system is, someone who is not even the channel owner of the copyrighted content can file a DMCA takedown. Someone could claim they're SomeOrdinaryGamers, claim hundreds of videos, and TH-cam does NOTHING about it. If someone wants to claim DMCA on someone. Fine. Put your channel at risk. In order to file a DMCA claim on TH-cam in my opinion, you need to be signed into your own youtube channel and make the claim from there. You also must have a certain tenure on TH-cam with a certain numer of uploads and watch time in order to verify that your account isnt just a troll account that is made for the sole purpose of false flagging. False claim once, you get a warning. False claim twice, you get a slap on the wrist you cant file any more DMCAs for a year or something. False claim 3 times, channel termination.
That's dumb. A lot of the time some other company is managing the DMCA process, not the actual rights holder.
Also, YT is a victim of DMCA just like everyone else. They are forced into this by the government, including all of the stupid parts.
While YT could probably take the outcome of DMCA claims into consideration, it is very, very rare for them to get to an official false claim status as they are either settled or dropped. And dropping a claim doesn't mean it is false, it could just mean that you don't want to go through the time and effort of a trial, even if you are totally in the right. Those things are expensive, and you can never guarantee outcomes. Happens all of the time.
@@justhecuke true, however in this case Techlead openly admitted that the takedown was not because of actual DMCA concerns, but was used as a "hazing ritual". That should be grounds to say it was a false claim.
@@MadLover4690 You could argue that, sure, but TL never said he didn't think he had a valid claim, just that it was too much trouble to pursue seriously. If I am a rights holder, I can throw out thousands of these claims with the plan to pursue none because it is not worth the money. That I do not follow through to a real court case does not mean I did not have legitimate grounds to file DMCA. And that I have other motives as well does not mean I do not have the required motive, which is to protect my content.
I'm not saying you have a good argument, I'm saying it probably isn't enough by itself to reach the bar you're going for.
In court, I don't think a judge would agree that the DMCA claims were made maliciously or in bad faith. He very obviously owns the copyright, he knows that, and he appears to believe that no real good faith use of it is happening (the part about no real journalism and such).
He will most likely ultimately lose the case, but that is very different from knowingly making a false claim, which is what you are saying he did.
@@justhecuke He did also admit to doing it to get the identities of his critics
@@justhecuke Then the valid claims would stand up in court and there would be no risk to the channel. If someone outside of TH-cam wished to make a claim, it could be necessary for them to file the claim in writing via their attorney. The attorney's information would then be on file with TH-cam for future claims. I'm not saying that its OK for people on youtube to upload unedited non transformative pieces. What I am saying is that DMCA is a legal process and should have consequences for those who do abuse the system. For those who dont abuse the legal system and are having their works ripped off and uploaded to youtube in whole pieces, the legal process protects them and their channels if they have one.
I just think that the legal process should be handled by lawyers and not a form that just anyone can fill out and even impersonate people and potentially jeopardize thei actual content creators channels as well. DMCA is not a weapon to be wielded against people who you dont like criticizing you.
He is doing whatever he wants because he is a Ex-employee.
whoa, that's seriously messed up. hazing? what is he in school?
He longs for his missed childhood and is stuck in his frat boy phase. Probably why his wife left him and took the kid with her.
@@Lordofthereee_He clearly hasn't been bullied enough in school.
DMCA abuse needs to be stopped. Either hire a lawyer ($$$) or rent a PO box ($) to avoid being doxxed.
Update: You may not be able to use a PO box to counter a DMCA takedown. I am not a creator.
....you can counter with PO boxes? Didn't know that
@@CrayCrayslab I don't know that either. I am not a creator.
I thought I was the only one in hating him, since I almost never saw comments or videos opposing him till like 3 years ago. Turns out he's worse than I thought. Good job everyone who keeps exposing him.
TechLead figured out he could make bank giving stupid/naive people bad advice and that's pretty much been his entire identity on the platform
And it worked.
Is this the same guy who lost his wife and kid and then went absolutely mental?
Could have been vice versa but yes.
They ran away for their lives. Smart ex wife took his kid to a whole other country 😂
You got the order of events mixed up. This is the absolute mental guy whose wife fled with their kid to escape his bs...... as a millionaire
Everything went down the minute he got fired from facebook
@@michaelz69z Must've already been mental to get fired.
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Asking TH-cam to do anything you’re best out of luck.
Thank you for covering this. Muta always does right by fellow youtubers. This TechLead guy needs to be stopped.
I honestly read the sidebar thumbnail as "This guy is ruining you" and I was like "fat chance. He's not me."
7:13 God tier lip-smack
bro breaks the sound barrier
I'd better watch this before it gets taken down like Internet Anarchist's video did.
Welcome to lawfare. The law gets abused. Every day, everywhere. This is how it works.
I'm surprised that big channels like IA don't already have lawyers.
Muta is my favorite Tech Indian.
Instead of those with thick accents and a habit of using phrases and expressions unique to Indian English (that they expect you to know without need for explanation)?
Yes. He is also my favorite.
I stumbled on that channel a long time ago looking for an office chair. I knew his vibe was off. I ignored his chair advice.
Ex-Google and ex-Meta employee is about to be an ex-loser in court
I look forward to you talking about him again in 2 years, keep up the tradition after talking about him 4 years ago, and then 2 years ago, and now!
At a minimum, abusing the dmca like this should result in being able to recover attorney fees if the originating party backs out of the dmca strike like a coward because they know there is no legal bounds for making the strike.
You'd have to prove the abuse, but I think it is already the case that you can seek attorneys fees as damages for maliciously brought cases that the other party knew had no real merit.
The problem here is that Tech Lead seems to think he can lawfully do what he is doing, which makes recovering attorneys fees unlikely in most US jurisdictions.
Then again, the fees would only be a few thousand, if that, considering that the civil case would be easy to dispute, given current facts. And tax deductible as business expenses.
Google doesn't do anything about scams and "educational content" on the platform, what makes you think they will ever care?
No , they ban propaganda Channels Made with bots.
Somehow I think this video is a test for tech lead to try and take this video down. And let’s see what happens.. hope he tries and ordinary takes him to court lol
glad you're covering this
Thanks for making a video on this. I totally agree with your take on how TH-cam should handle false strikes. It‘s a shame that there are so many other channels who do that who are smart enough not to openly admit it. TH-cam needs to start actually enforcing their TOS!
TechLead has fallen off so far. No clue who the guy was up until now.
The bridge he fell off of is no longer there BTW. It is completely gone.
sad thing is, TechLead can't be stopped... TH-cam backs him so hard. Don't know how long it'll take to see this video go down.
holy shit... techlead literally just a cartoonish villain..
I honestly think channels like LegalEagle would be awesome if they started to protect other youtubers without the means to protect themselves with their Patreon, Sponsor, and/or TH-cam ad-revenue as a way to help out. This help shouldn't be for everyone that makes a dumb mistake but the Internet Anarchist situation would be a great example where the system is abused.
Legal egal is only in it for money
I agree
Legal Eagle is kind of an industry plant....
@@shadow_realm47 Source, please.