Both @GuidedHacking and CheatTheGame's channels are gone since yesterday, and more getting banned today!

Recently, you must have heard on the 'net by now about Rockstar cracking down on people making GTA V Game mods/cheats, going as far as raiding their homes with police and dragging them into court, but now it seems YouTube has decided to start cracking down on any channel that has videos 'showing' people how to use programs like x64dg to make 'game cheats' or 'mods' and flat out terminating all their videos, channel itself, and does not look like YT is going to backdown on this latest enforcement actions, refusing so far to listen to the growing backlash on social media over their Dalek-like actions!

We'd like to inform you that we've received a Circumvention of Technologies complaint regarding your YouTube account. Upon review, we've determined that activity in your account violates YouTube's Terms of Service. As a result, we've terminated your account. If you would like to appeal the suspension, please submit this form.

When we say circumvention of technological measures, we’re referring to tools that allow users to evade a software’s licensing protocol. This can mean serial numbers, keygens, passwords, and other methods to hack software or games.

A CTM claim is appropriate when the infringed material isn’t present in the video (or directly linked to), but the video offers a way for users to access it illegitimately.

You can see more reports on the growing 'reddit' thread linked below, but what are your thoughts on the whole new 'enforcement' action by YT over 'modding/hacking/cheats' videos on their platform?

Source #1: Reddit
Source #2: MaxConsole

 

[Deleted User]

Again, dailymotion is gonna get very popular all of sudden. Unless they start to play wack a mole there too.

If we use it, that is. if I were a content creator I would move. Infact I've been considering starting a blog for some time and already decided if I do, I won't use YouTube due to all the drama that goes on there

 

[Megadriver94]

This sucks, there's many videos of modding consoles and games that interested me
Too bad YouTube is the biggest video sharing site, no good alternatives for this

Pssst: safeshare, vimeo and the I2P network.

 

[Noctosphere]

Pssst: safeshare, vimeo and the I2P network.

dont forget dailymotion
I don'T use it at all, but still, apparently, it was a big player years ago

 

[zeveroth]

While that sucks for those who made the videos, and those whom watched them, there will always be another site to get them.

 

[AxlSt00pid]

Fuck, rip all people that asked me a tutorial on how I changed New Leaf's title screen on a dumb vid I made xD

 

[PalindromicBreadLoaf]

Welp, this sucks. Where will I get all my Newer Plus updates now?

 

[Captain_N]

any game recorded using a cheat or mod will be banned then. Definitely a dalek move. Google will probably start censoring their search engine for hacks and mods. Enjoy these things while you can. Big brother is on the move.

 

[samcambolt270]

since when have mods been "circumvention of technologies"? They are neither illegal nor circumventing anything. And tutorials for how to make mods are not teaching someone how to "circumvent technology" either. It's not like they're teaching you how to pirate games or how to mod a console to get free games either. They are legal tutorials on how to do legal things. fuck off youtube.

 

[Megadriver94]

CONTACT YOUTUBE DIRECTLY! Make them hear us! Either via Facebook, Twitter, direct E-mail to the admins, or Youtube Personal Message!

any game recorded using a cheat or mod will be banned then. Definitely a dalek move. Google will probably start censoring their search engine for hacks and mods. Enjoy these things while you can. Big brother is on the move.

Good thing I also use Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo.

 

[Captain_N]

CONTACT YOUTUBE DIRECTLY! Make

Good thing I also use Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo.

Yep, i have noticed since 2016 they been censoring torrents

 

[Megadriver94]

Yep, i have noticed since 2016 they been censoring torrents

Google for sure and maybe also Yahoo.

 

[Jayro]

Wow, they might as well just change their name to SJWTube, or CensorTube. It's not a good platform anymore with all this censorship.

 

[Crimson Cuttlefish]

Holy shit, YouTube fucking over fans?!
...what else is new?

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

Hm, good thing I've been archiving YouTube videos I like because sooner or later they'd get removed. This is an example.

With the 5TB HDD I bought I have plenty of space.

 

[Noctosphere]

Hm, good thing I've been archiving YouTube videos I like because sooner or later they'd get removed. This is an example.

With the 5TB HDD I bought I have plenty of space.

we will need your help when GBATemp will launch their own video sharing server

 

[WiiUBricker]

Wasn't there some noise about being able to access otherwise paid content in the new Assassin's Creed game? Probably has something to do with that.

Then they probably shouldn’t put paid content in RAM when the user doesn’t have permission to access that content.

 

[Dread88]

Well, dame first it was the conspiracy channels now the modding channels youtube needs to claim down what is next my grams knitting channel because she curses here and there it's almost like they're trying to make youtube a safe space lol or appeal to the giant game corporations who knows I don't anymore.

 

[Subtle Demise]

Piracy related content I can understand but cheats? How is digging in RAM Circumvention of Technologies?

It's not. Modern law is written in such a way that it's trivial for any scummy lawyer to use clever wordplay to change the definition of a law so that it can apply to any possible situation. Laws like the DMCA offer the average person zero protection from complete overreach of corporations and government. What a world we live in where corporations not only get to write these laws, but they have the privilege of enforcing them too, even worldwide, and even in countries where they have no official market or legal presence.

 

[XDel]

So long as it is not taking down any actual MOD content that is useful, such as those found on DOOM MoD Madness (Icarus Liv3s) and the like.

 

[LoganK93]

Well, there goes Kaze and Skelux's channels too. Anyone know where else they are active? Seems like they had basically shifted to just YouTube lately, especially Kaze. Guy has a new Mario 64 hack fucking weekly.