PewDiePie's Channel Under Fire as YouTube Accepts Takedown Request

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When popular YouTuber PewDiePie let slip a racial slur during a key moment in one of his recent streams, the developing team behind Firewatch pleaded with fellow developers to take action. Campo Santo Founder Sean Vanaman immediately set into motion his appeal for a DMCA takedown strike to take down all of Pew's content that relates to their games. Now that takedown strike has been accepted by YouTube.

Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg took to his YouTube account to confirm with a new video (seen above) that the takedown request has been accepted by YouTube and the strike was now in affect. According to Kjellberg, when he first saw the Tweets from Vanaman, he immediately privatized the video in question out of "respect" for the developer. Despite this, YouTube and Campo Santo pursued the DMCA. Now that this has officially been taken to the next level, things could get ugly for PewDiePie here in the near future.

The way these strikes work is that if a YouTuber receives three of them, the channel will permanently shut down. Kjellberg admits that this is "a pretty big deal," and that the future of his channel could be in jeopardy if more of these "slips" occur.

In accordance with the policies put into place, the effected accounts that are shut down after a third strike relinquish all videos uploaded via that avenue. All of the attached videos will then be deleted and the user will no longer be able to create another account. Any and all videos PewDiePie has uploaded to YouTube through the years will be confiscated if a third strike goes through.

This whole debacle does bring up a point ... does the team behind Firewatch have a case against Kjellberg for his Let's Play content? According to a Lawyer that spoke with Polygon: yes, with limitations.

“In the case of a Let’s Play video, a content owner like Campo Santo would argue that they can revoke their permissive, non-exclusive license to stream (granted to end users) against anyone who uses their content in a way they find offensive, or in a way that associates their game or brand with something against their values."





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Davi_J_CampbellPosted:

Craig
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Musket He apologized, people need to get over it


An apology means nothing. Just all the kids think " OMG HE SAID SORRY HE REALLYS MEANS IT LEAVE PEWDS ALONE!!! " When no. It's not that simple. A weak and scripted apology doesn't mean everything is gone and never happened.


THIS^^^

The guy needs to take more responsibility in what he said. Anyone can apologise, but he needs some reason not to do it again.


WHO THE **** CARES!!!!!!!!

He called a character in game that. Would the same reaction happen if he was black? no! So stop being little winey bitches. I dont even like pewdiepie but people need to grow up its just a word

CraigPosted:

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Musket He apologized, people need to get over it


An apology means nothing. Just all the kids think " OMG HE SAID SORRY HE REALLYS MEANS IT LEAVE PEWDS ALONE!!! " When no. It's not that simple. A weak and scripted apology doesn't mean everything is gone and never happened.


THIS^^^

The guy needs to take more responsibility in what he said. Anyone can apologise, but he needs some reason not to do it again.

DismissPosted:

Musket He apologized, people need to get over it


An apology means nothing. Just all the kids think " OMG HE SAID SORRY HE REALLYS MEANS IT LEAVE PEWDS ALONE!!! " When no. It's not that simple. A weak and scripted apology doesn't mean everything is gone and never happened.

FourStarPosted:

"I am sick of this child getting more and more chances to make money off of what we make."

By this logic you should be taking everyone YouTubers videos down that includes your average games.

SilkyPosted:

Travis "I am sick of this child getting more and more chances to make money off of what we make." Sounds like he's a little butthurt that he's not as famous as him. Needs to grow up in my opinion.


True and also PewDiePie is infacct making them money due to the fact their sales would be much higher after showing a video of this game on his channel.

SleepPosted:

"I am sick of this child getting more and more chances to make money off of what we make." Sounds like he's a little butthurt that he's not as famous as him. Needs to grow up in my opinion.

-YoungSinatraPosted:

GT-R It will only bite Youtube/google in the ass. At this point I wouldn't mind Google going out of business. Huge violations of anti trust laws on many levels not related to this.


Google going out of business? How would that work lol?

Google is worth like thousands of PewDiePies channel. Theyll never go out of business with their huge infrastructure.

GT-RPosted:

It will only bite Youtube/google in the ass. At this point I wouldn't mind Google going out of business. Huge violations of anti trust laws on many levels not related to this.

MusketPosted:

He apologized, people need to get over it

ZydrinPosted:

Not a smart move on their part.


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