[STEAM] A fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and it’s not clear YouTube can stop him

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In late September, Dominik “Domtendo” Neumayer received a troubling email. He had just featured The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom in a series of videos on his

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channel. Now, those videos were gone.

“Some of your videos have been removed,”

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explained matter-of-factly. The email said that Domtendo had now received a pair of copyright strikes. He was now just one copyright strike away from losing his 17-year-old channel and the over 1.5 million subscribers he’d built up.

At least, he would have been, if Domtendo hadn’t spotted something fishy about the takedown notice — something

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had missed.

Domtendo had been a little bit confused right from the start; the strikes didn’t make sense. Like countless other creators, Domtendo specializes in “Let’s Play” videos, a well-established genre where streamers play through the entirety of a game on camera.

“The next copyright strike will close your channel” [/url] Nintendo has a complicated relationship with the fans who use its copyrighted works, infamously shutting down all sorts of unauthorized projects by sending cease-and-desists.

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, too. But both the Japanese gaming giant and the broader...

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