226 of my videos copied

[tealsuki]

I got a headache reading this thread.

Sorry to hear about your troubles, Dave! Hope the powers-that-be clear this up soon, and that nobody shits in your cornflakes again for a while.

[kizzap]

Have to be careful not to piss off the above mentioned 'bunch of ass#@!$' or they might do more than block the one channel...

I presume Dave is happy enough with the fellow in France selling knock off "Micro-Currents" on eBay. He even has the same anti static blue mat!
eBay auction: #181183666029

Surely there would be enough evidence in this thread alone to prove that Dave has personally taken steps to have the content removed, yet Youtube failed to do so, so he would have fair recourse to take said action? Surely also being a "Youtube Partner" would have its benefits in this matter.

The problem with the guy selling copies in France is that Dave has no action he can take against him. OSHW (which the uCurrent is covered by) technically allows people to do simply this (albeit the OSHW community frowns extremely heavily against it). All they have to do to follow OSHW guidelines is to ensure that the creator is credited for the project, which he is.

-kizzap

[BravoV]

So Dave, has anyone ever tried a stunt like this before? Will this add another item to your morning routine, brush teeth, put coffee on, remove drool from Sagans pillow, check to see if my livelihood is being hijacked?

Man you have had a bad week.

+1, and get a really quality rest and the most important part get well soon Dave.

IMHO, just forget about the EEVBlog videos/tweet/facebook/forum etc for temporary.

Regarding troll, just let the mob us  take care of it.

[jancumps]

Seems the EEVBlog copies are removed. The channel is not shut down though.

[PA0PBZ]

Seems the EEVBlog copies are removed. The channel is not shut down though.

Really? I get 318 hits clicking the link on the first page.

( https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Minna+Clakley+eevblog )

[jancumps]

You are right. Strange, because the are gone when I click on the video tab of that channel .
Let's carefully not click on any of them.

[FrankBuss]

The problem with the guy selling copies in France is that Dave has no action he can take against him. OSHW (which the uCurrent is covered by) technically allows people to do simply this (albeit the OSHW community frowns extremely heavily against it). All they have to do to follow OSHW guidelines is to ensure that the creator is credited for the project, which he is.

According to his eBay history nobody buys it, and that's no wonder, because you can buy the original from Adafruit for $10 less. But I didn't know it is OSHW. That's nice, if someone wants to build a power supply and integrate some good current measurement.

[EEVblog]

There are now 388 videos of mine on there.
Youtube removed 3 of them that I complained about. I was hoping that would be enough (+maybe other complaints) to trigger the whole channel removed.
If a human at Youtube bothered to look at this channel it is blindingly obvious every one of the videos is a copy.
I can't possibly go fill in that complaint form 388 times...

[Mr Smiley]

What if 388 of us did it for you 

Also, JoeyP, well you all fell for it hook line and sinker, every argument was given a response, and that fed his sad lonely life.

All you had to do was completely ignore him from the very start, that would have pissed him off more than he pissed off all of you put together. It was all done for attention.

If you come across a nob, ignore him and he'll shrivel up and go away 

 

[Psi]

That's what i was saying before.  Any youtube user (us) can report a video with 4 simple clicks.
But there isn't a valid option to report a duplicate video from another user.

The only options that are close are "Infringes my rights" then.. "Infringes my copyright" or "other legal claim" but they only apply to dave and not us.

Going through 300 vids and clicking 4 times doesn't sound to hard.
I'm sure there are people on here that would do it for dave but he'd need to trust them with his account access for a short time.

You could probably streamline it by opening 100 tabs at a time, one per video, then keeping the mouse in the same location over the report button and use keyboard shortcuts to change tabs, click, change tab, click etc..
Then start from tab1 again with the mouse of the next thing to click.

Probably only take 30min or so.

Note: i've not actually reported anything so i don't know if it asks any more questions once you select the reason and hit "Submit".

[PuterGeek]

And all ways to complain about the user assume only Dave would complain about the coped videos.

Not sure there is a constructive way for the EEVblog community to respond in this case.

[FrankBuss]

There is an API for Youtube. Get the list of videos for a channel:

https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_video_feeds?hl=de&csw=1#User_Uploaded_Videos

Complains:

https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_complaints

And the Python library looks really easy to use:

https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/python_client_lib

Maybe would be a 10 line Python script which files a complain for any video of a user, if he/she has only copies of your videos, and 11 lines if you have to filter the title for a substring Dave, I could try it, if you like.

[bbarbour]

I'm not sure if you tried this already, but have you reported the user for Impersonation?  Since the videos include those of Sagan, you might have a strong claim (beyond that which a monkey could verify, even though they haven't already).

Project Sagan, by Minna Clakley --

[EEVblog]

Going through 300 vids and clicking 4 times doesn't sound to hard.

It's not that easy, there is a form where you have to fill in your name, address, phone number, URL's etc.
https://www.youtube.com/copyright_complaint_form

[EEVblog]

I'm not sure if you tried this already, but have you reported the user for Impersonation?

Yes, they turned down my complaint.

[Psi]

Reporting 3 videos should have triggered the account lock.

Maybe 3 reports close together only count as one infringement?

YouTube removes content when we receive complete and valid removal requests. When content is removed, a strike is applied to the uploader's account.

If you receive three copyright strikes, your account will be suspended and all the videos uploaded to your account will be removed. Users with suspended accounts are prohibited from creating new accounts.

[Psi]

Going through 300 vids and clicking 4 times doesn't sound to hard.

It's not that easy, there is a form where you have to fill in your name, address, phone number, URL's etc.
https://www.youtube.com/copyright_complaint_form

Maybe try doing it from the video itself instead of going through the complaint system?

Or, I just noticed that there's a link to report an entire channel instead of a video. So that may work too.

[kizzap]

Dave, I'd suggest maybe using twitter? having a public question (and blatant copying issue) ignored by the official twitter accounts would be a negative point for them, as it would show the world what their response is publically, and every other video uploader would then be reconsidering uploading content if they are getting no protection from being copied...

-kizzap

[pickle9000]

Dave I did find this it has an actual e-mail address on it may be worth a try. It's a copyright contact section.

https://www.youtube.com/yt/copyright/copyright-contact-info.html

[Stonent]

The channel itself has a comments section that's got a few posts from people complaining it is full of stolen content.
Might be worth all of us airing our grievances there.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC1Jo9UvXfS1CmrfbBX759g/discussion

[EEVblog]

Maybe try doing it from the video itself instead of going through the complaint system?
Or, I just noticed that there's a link to report an entire channel instead of a video. So that may work too.

No, that just takes you to the individual video complain form.

[EEVblog]

Dave, I'd suggest maybe using twitter?

Youtube never interact on their twitter account, it's push only.

[EEVblog]

A complaint has been sent the Australian Partner support address, lets see if they do anything.

[Stonent]

Since I had a youtube video pulled once because a muffled song being played in a public place was detected by youtube, you'd think they would have some method of locating duplicate content on their site.... Or some kind of invisible watermarking technology.... You'd think...

[EEVblog]

Since I had a youtube video pulled once because a muffled song being played in a public place was detected by youtube, you'd think they would have some method of locating duplicate content on their site.... Or some kind of invisible watermarking technology.... You'd think...

They do.
I can't re-upload the same video with a different filename and title etc, once done processing it tells me that it has detected it's a duplicate video.