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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DecyPosted:

-Silky
RepBandit I do not understand when streamers have so many followers and still do stupid stuff when being recorded and watched by thousands to millions of people.
Its like they want the publicity that comes from it, which knowing him, he probably did


I really don't think this was done on purpose - yes, most Youtubers do stuff like this on purpose all the time but he is the biggest on the platform and has no need to grow even more.


i agree he could leave tomorrow if he wanted and it wouldn't affect him what so ever.

SilkyPosted:

RepBandit I do not understand when streamers have so many followers and still do stupid stuff when being recorded and watched by thousands to millions of people.
Its like they want the publicity that comes from it, which knowing him, he probably did


I really don't think this was done on purpose - yes, most Youtubers do stuff like this on purpose all the time but he is the biggest on the platform and has no need to grow even more.

RepBanditPosted:

I do not understand when streamers have so many followers and still do stupid stuff when being recorded and watched by thousands to millions of people.
Its like they want the publicity that comes from it, which knowing him, he probably did

sznPosted:

PewDiePie has always been one of my favorite YouTubers. I hope he can control himself and watch the language he uses.

XboxPosted:

He better watch what he says and not get any more strikes on his record. Just isn't a good look for a mans fan base that is mostly children.

DismissPosted:

GT-R
Craig
Dismiss
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.


Oh look at these virtue signalers. I bet you are just the greatest people ever.


Not at all. But I don't have masses of 12 year olds looking up to me so I need to be a saint a role model. Whereas Pewdiepie does. Basically all of his fanbase is under 12 so this shouldn't be happening. As far as I'm aware his streams aren't even classed as 18+ so any 10 year old can click on it and hear all the abuse he says.

DismissPosted:

lbreadstickl
Craig
Dismiss
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.

You really think it matters? Honestly, think of all the songs kids listen to or how many other times they read it or hear it over the Internet, how many other times they hear it where people either mean it or not. Pew said it in the best way possible; not meaning it, not because of somebody, but a video game and he was talking to himself as if no one was there. Not saying there's a good way to say it, but he said it in the least harmful way.


" best possible way " He said with with a HARDDDDDDDDDD er on the end. Probably the worst way.

GT-RPosted:

-YoungSinatra
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.

There is no such thing as too big too fail.

GT-RPosted:

Craig
Dismiss
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.


Oh look at these virtue signalers. I bet you are just the greatest people ever.

lbreadsticklPosted:

Craig
Dismiss
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.

You really think it matters? Honestly, think of all the songs kids listen to or how many other times they read it or hear it over the Internet, how many other times they hear it where people either mean it or not. Pew said it in the best way possible; not meaning it, not because of somebody, but a video game and he was talking to himself as if no one was there. Not saying there's a good way to say it, but he said it in the least harmful way.


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