YouTubers Getting Crushed By Massive Copyright Violation Scams

Youtube copyright hijackers are stealing videos from prominent Youtube channels resulting in literally millions of copyright violations and the platform's administrators do nothing to stop it.

I happened to be browsing YouTube a few days back and suddenly recognized a familiar voice. Oddly, it was my own. I investigated a bit closer and realized that a youtube channel, @linhcrochet, had stolen my most recent youtube content. I notified youtube of the content violation and within a day I was notified that the video was removed. I then decided to subscribe to the channel and found that I had inserted myself into a massive world of copyright violation scams that has infected the entire platform.

YouTube is now flooded with scam channels that exist, thrive, and profit handsomely from stolen content. As you may know, YouTube claims to prohibit copying and showing content from legitimate creators without express permission. The violation is referred to as a “copyright violation” and most youtube content creators are under the “false” impression that the platform is closely monitored for this kind of activity. More often than not, the copyright thieves find a popular video, remaster the video using the original audio and faces of the content creator and their guest and overlay it on generic related action video. However, in some instances the bold ones simply steal the entire video and repost it as-is. It is difficult to believe that YouTube can find a video that shows 30 seconds of video from an NBC broadcast but fails to notice a one hour video that has been lifted from a legitimate content creator.

Many popular channels such as my own channel have been robbed. Channels that regularly get their content lifted include, but are not limited to Danny Haiphong, Ron Paul, Stephen Guardner, Judge Napolitano, Danny Davis, Through the Eyes of, Dialogue Works, and pretty much anyone who interviews Scott Ritter, Larry Johnson, or Colonel Douglas Magregor.

Let’s review a few of the scammer channels and ponder how YouTube fails to find millions of copyright violations.

The Scott Ritter Effect

The first thing that I noticed about the copyright hijackers is the propensity to steal videos of Scott Ritter. Other well known international security experts such as Larry Johnson, John Mearsheimer, and Larry Johnson are also points of interest for the criminals. Two things are guaranteed on YouTube, 1. - if you create a video that includes Scott Ritter it will be immediately stolen and reposted by hijackers and 2. - YouTube will do nothing to address the theft.

Welcome to YouTube, Where Copyright Violations Abound

@Pirath-Film is a typical copyright hijacker. a pathetic channel with few followers and viewers suddenly began voraciously posting new content. This prolific hijacker posted 32 videos in 48 hours of which 10 were stolen directly from Danny Haiphong’s channel. The hijacker also stole video directly from Germany’s DW channel all right under the nose of Youtube’s administrators.

@linhcrochet is one of my personal favorites. This copyright hijacker not only stole my video, but roughly at the same time as @Pirath-Film began prolifically posting copyright violations. Content was stolen from Judge Napolitano, Daniel Davis, Dialog Works, and more.

@linbachtut is a copyright thieving master. This channel has 128 thousand followers and has posted 44 copyright violation videos (we are led to believe that after 3 copyright violations YouTube will terminate your channel) and every single video is Scott Ritter. Poor Danny Haiphong was really scrubbed in this theft. This Scott Ritter video was stolen from him and pulled in 236,000 views. This Scott Ritter video was stolen directly from me and racked up 128,00 views (roughly 4 times the numbers of views that the same video pulled in on my channel.

@MeatoPhoum_HD is another interesting copyright hijacking channel. This channel started posting 10 days after @linbachtut, and this hijacker posted 65 videos, racked up over 1.1 million views, and the content was was dominated by 34 stolen Scott Ritter videos.

@KutayAHLATLI is a small timer. he has two stolen Danny Haiphong videos that racked up 31 thousand views in a few days. I suspect his success will motivate him to join the big boys and move into massive copyright hijacking. Why not, it’s free money and YouTube does nothing to address it.

@GTA5Gameplay123 is new to the game and has copyright hijacked 6 videos in 24 hours. They have stolen videos from Daniel Davis, Judge Napolitano, and more.

CONCLUSION:

The brazen nature of the copyright hijacking operations and the failure of YouTube administrators to notice these blatant violations creates a number of obvious questions. The content creators and their guests spend time and money to produce the content that makes YouTube a highly profitable platform but for some odd reason the platform administrators turn a blind eye to this outright theft. Could this be an inside or intelligence operation aimed at devaluing the channels and diluting the content so as to make the channel unprofitable for the content creators? We also can not rule out the possibility that YouTube has honestly missed these copyright violations. However, as a content creator I am well aware that “big brother” youtube keeps a close eye on these things and I know a number of content creators that have received strikes from youtube for very minor video copyright violations. It seems unfathomable that someone could post 65 stolen videos and rack up over 1.1 million views right under the nose of the platform administrators and they don’t notice, yet if me or one of the legacy content creators posts a 30 second video that is questionable we will be slammed by YouTube’s administrators before the sun goes down. pretty strange huh?