Wizards of the Coast sends Pinkerton agents after YouTuber who unboxed a leaked Magic: The Gathering card set

Unfortunately YouTube doesn’t recognize Fair Use. The system is that any corporation can report you for copyright violation, and they will be automatically be believed, with no human in the loop. The system takes down your videos and gives you a “copyright strike”. Three of those and you are banned for life from the platform.

If you appeal long enough and hard enough, you can eventually get a human to look at it and the video reinstated, but in general, the system is simply to do whatever the corporations want. It’s all automated and you are guilty until proven innocent.

As a YouTuber, I live in pretty much constant fear of some corporation deciding I’ve violated their copyright in some way and deleting my livelihood.

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