In line with TechLead, a.okay.a Patrick Shyu, the ‘ex-Google, ex-Meta tech lead’ who began a profitable YouTube profession after leaving Fb, he’s been taking down any movies which can be essential of his conduct by falsely claiming copyright violations.
Shyu, who as soon as launched a cryptocurrency by mendacity to customers about the way it was being bootstrapped, has seen his profile diminish since being uncovered by fellow YouTube creator Coffeezilla three years in the past.
However making false guarantees and operating off with a big revenue from a crypto mission solely to by no means point out it once more hasn’t stopped him from continually posting on YouTube. Certainly, since his failed crypto launch, he’s launched a sequence of pessimistic movies, with titles starting from Why Coding is Useless to AGI Achieved It’s Over. He’s additionally posted at the least six movies claiming that he’s both quitting or retiring from each tech and YouTube.
He doesn’t seem to have executed both.
Not the primary time
Whereas that is completely the primary time that TechLead has publicly admitted to abusing the DMCA system, it isn’t the primary time he’s tried to have well-known video exposés taken down. He even said in a now-deleted video that he, “tends to copyright strike down any exposé videos” as a result of he desires to know who’s behind them.
Years in the past, after Coffeezilla coated TechLead’s Million Token rip-off, TechLead referred to as Coffeezilla racist, tried to dox him, and despatched out copyright takedown claims to different creators overlaying the subject.
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YouTube channel getting rekt
Although TechLead has deleted the video wherein he admitted to abusing the DMCA copyright takedown system, that isn’t the one video he’s deleted. In line with the social analytics web site SocialBlade, TechLead has deleted dozens of movies over the previous few days, dropping hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of views seemingly in a single day. This has taken his channel from a B- score to a D- score.
Protos requested YouTube the way it intends to answer false DMCA takedown claims and was instructed that “False claims and misuse of the removal request webform when someone submits a copyright removal request can result in the suspension of an account or other legal consequences.” It’s unclear if YouTube will droop or take authorized motion towards TechLead.
It’s price declaring that TechLead’s Million Token is down over 99% from all-time highs reached in July of 2021.
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