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

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Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨mox@lemmy.sdf.org⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/27/24326278/nintendo-fake-takedowns-youtube-domtendo-dmca

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    YouTube certainly can, they just don’t care enough.

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The troll was able to spoof the Nintendo.co.jp domain because Nintendo didn’t setup their DMARC settings correctly. They have it setup but with policy “none” instead of “reject”. What a bunch of dumb asses. Such a big company doesn’t even protect their domains against spoofing. Probably why they got hacked, they don’t invest enough in IT security. Though this is typical for Japanese corporations.

    mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=dmarc%3aNinte…

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    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Probably why they got hacked,

      Which time lmao, weren’t there like 4 gigaleaks?

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    • eronth@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bruh nintendo seems starkly opposed to getting even ok at modern networking.

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    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, they still use internet Explorer, http sans s and fax machines.

      When asked why, their response, roughly translated, was "we just want to play eroge ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This back and forth from the comments on the article is interesting:

    What the article ommits: The youtuber in question has a long history of threatening smaller channels with various actions against them, from brigading to lawyers to copyright strikes, if they do something he doesn’t like and don’t bow to his will. So I’m not surprised to see someone was fed up with him eventually.

    Two wrongs don’t make a right as my nan used to say. This YouTuber being a bit of a grunt does not negate the fact YouTube itself is happy taking a hands off approach to a fundamental part of their business model because the ones it affects are not the ones that give them most of the money.

    Of course it’s a problem, I just feel 0 sympathy in this case and I find it ironic that it’s him especially that got hit with the same treatment he threatens others with.

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  • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why do people even play Nintendo games inspite of Nintendo’s abusive behaviour is beyond me

    Just play Indie Titles

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    • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thier games are pretty good.

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      • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No it isn’t, it’s the same thing all over again Just get AA studios to make an equivalent

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