As digital civil liberty defenders of the
Electronic Frontier Foundation recently
Tweeted on the
RockStar Games Cheater Raids pushing copyright law, Reddit user
Sn34kyMofo reports that YouTube is now flexing their Google-owned muscle terminating video game hacking channels.
This comes after
new exemptions were announced from the Feds giving consumers the right to hacking DRM when legally repairing electronic devices they own.
Hopefully this
Circumvention of Technologies complaint won't affect any of the
YouTube Channels by members, but feel free to use this discussion topic to voice your thoughts on the matter and suggest alternatives to YouTube for sharing videos online.
To quote from
Sn34kyMofo on Reddit: "This morning, YouTube terminated
my channel, as well as
Guided Hacking and
CheatTheGame's channels. I've appealed the termination, but because this appears to be a concerted effort, I'm not holding my breath that I will be able to reclaim the channel.
The reason for termination was cited as the following:
We'd like to inform you that we've received a
Circumvention of Technologies complaint regarding your YouTube account Stephen Chapman. Upon review, we've determined that activity in your account violates YouTube's Terms of Service (
https://www.youtube.com/t/terms). As a result, we've terminated your account. If you would like to appeal the suspension, please submit this form.
CTM (Circumvention of Technological Measures) complaints are apparently the immediate death of any reverse...