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   Rupert Taylorposted 8 months ago

   A toad stole one of my articles, had AI voice the text and posted it on YouTube. I filed a complaint and YouTube impressively took down the rascal's channel.
   
   The next day I received this email: "hi , please can you remove the copyright strike because my channel has been terminated and  i promiss i will not repeat the same mistake"
   
   First, I will certainly not do what he/she asks. My gut tells me to give this person a talking to but that might escalate things.
   
   Would you respond further. A lecture on the morality of copyright theft? No response at all?
   
   My gut tells me to give this person a talking to but that might escalate things.

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      SerenityHaloposted 8 months agoin reply to this

      No response. Just be ready to report them for their malicious activity. They need to figure out this thing for themselves. No lecture will merit anything.

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      Kenna McHughposted 8 months agoin reply to this

      I have a YouTube channel. The policy is three strikes; you're out, so this plagiarizer has done it before. Good riddance!

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         Rupert Taylorposted 8 months agoin reply to this

         And then Kenna, he has the bloody nerve to ask me to withdraw my complaint, giving a promiss (sic) to never do it again.

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            Kenna McHughposted 8 months agoin reply to this

            YouTube is ruthless, and rightly so.

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         Solarasposted 8 months agoin reply to this

         LOL, promisses, promisses, promisses.

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      bravewarriorposted 8 months agoin reply to this

      Don't respond, Rupert. If you do, the perpetrator will not only have your email address, but might also see your IP address.

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      Thelma Albertsposted 8 months agoin reply to this

      Don’t response. I think the thief will not fulfill the promise of not doing it again in the future.

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   Brenda Arledgeposted 8 months ago

   Don't respond in any way.  This person might harm your devices with a virus, or much worse...attack your accounts.
   You got it taken down and now it sounds like he's blaming you.
   Sounds like a snake to me.  Ignore the message.

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   Rupert Taylorposted 8 months ago

   Thanks Brenda. The possibility of cyber revenge occurred to me, so maybe we are both paranoid or both correct.

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   Rupert Taylorposted 8 months ago

   Andrea. Exactly what Linda, my wife, said.

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   DrMark1961posted 8 months ago

   How did you find it? That happens all too often and those thieves profit from our work. However, I find them only ocasionally.

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   Rupert Taylorposted 8 months ago

   Dr. Mark. I got a tip off from Damon Pipitone, a Crime Wire editor. Without his input I probably never would have found it.
   
   YouTube acted within a few hours on a Sunday no less. In the past I've found filing DMCA requests with Google too frustrating to be worth the bother.

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      eugbugposted 8 months agoin reply to this

      Especially when they either automate the processing of DMCA requests or have dumb ass "the computer says no" agents doing the work. Frequently, I get replies to say they can't find the copied content, even though an article might be a carbon copy.

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      Kenna McHughposted 8 months agoin reply to this

      Daimon sounds like a proactive editor!

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   PaulGoodman67posted 8 months ago

   Plagiarism is so common that it is difficult to keep track of. At least HP helps us to some degree, heaven knows how much stuff is stolen via Medium.
   
   I'm glad things worked out in this case.

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   Rupert Taylorposted 8 months ago

   I have been persuaded by everybody's sage advice to ignore the rat, although I really want to hand out some pithy and uncomplimentary remarks. I know, I'll write something in the topical forum; that will get the inner ghoul out of my system.

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      PaulGoodman67posted 8 months agoin reply to this

      Yes, there's not really anything to be gained from getting into it with the transgressor even though I can see that it might feel emotionally satisfying.

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