In March 2022, Destiny 2’s YouTuber was hit by a fake DMCA removal. Now, Bungy has found the culprit … and it’s on the battlefield worth $ 7.6 million.
Proceedings Submitted by Bungy yesterday (via Game post) Nicholas Minor, a YouTuber named Sir Nazo, is responsible for fake DMCA notices and himself Genuine DMCA notification from bungee.
“96 times, the miner sent a DMCA removal notice on behalf of the bungee,” the developer explained. “”[He identified] Direct yourself as Bungie’s “brand protection” vendor to confuse the Bungie player, streamer, and fan community by innocent creators removing Destiny 2 videos and facing piracy. Did. “
If that wasn’t bad enough, Sir Nazo seems to have been deeply involved in the community’s debate over the removal of the DMCA, which was thought to be from the bungee at the time.
“During that time, Sir Nazo participated in community discussions about the takedown of Bungee and disinformation,” the studio said. “This has caused serious reputation and financial damage to Bungie for obvious reasons.”
The original (and actual) DMCA notice for minors was issued by Bungie after uploading the soundtrack to Destiny’s enhanced version of The Taken King to the YouTube channel. Minor allegedly refused to delete his video and kept it online until it was finally deleted by YouTube in January. Miners allegedly retaliated by registering a new Gmail address designed to mimic the email addresses of employees of Bungee’s copyright-exercising company, CSC Global. He then began issuing fake DMCA notices to Destiny 2 creators.
“The Destiny community was embarrassed and upset, believing that Bungie had rejected its promise to allow Destiny 2 content to build its own streaming community and YouTube channel,” Bungie explained in the proceedings. “Members of the Destiny community have misunderstood that Bungie’s brand protection agent is also fraudulent, causing confusion among users regarding the authenticity of legitimate DMCA notices. Bungie has dealt with it and players have videos and channels. I had to spend a lot of internal resources to be able to restore it. “
Bungy is currently suing Minor for an astonishing $ 7.6 million. That’s a total of $ 150,000 for each task related to fraudulent DMCA removal notifications.
Just a few days ago, cheat company Elite Boss Tech agreed to pay Bungie $ 13.5 million in damages to end the copyright infringement proceedings. Meanwhile, Sony’s planned acquisition of Bungee is being investigated by FTC.
Need help with Destiny 2? Check out the Destiny Content Vault guide to see which strikes and raids have been vaulted. Also check out the latest enhanced version of The Witch Queen’s guide.
Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic at IGN.You can follow him twitter..
