Plumpbiscuit
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I say shady because this particular streamer, DarkSydePhil (DSP), has been known to say and do shady shit in the past, involving disclosing confidential medical information about his-then fiance to the internet. If you know who DSP, you might be facepalming right now, or looking in intrigue. Either way, these past few days he has in my opinion committed himself to conning/scamming his fans to beg for money for financial gain through a legal situation that I'm about to roughly breakdown.
So, the story:
This past Friday DSP allegedly received 2 copyright strikes from Rockstar Games, Inc in which he immediately described as illegitimate himself. He took to Twitter to describe the situation briefly and also during the Twitch stream he did. However, DSP also had a genuine copyright strike from Atlus that hit him on June 22nd last month, meaning he had 3 strikes. However, as we know that on YouTube copyright strikes only last for 2 weeks unless the strike is counter-claimed by the claimant and then would remain there. Now, let's add 2 weeks from the 22nd. The date ends at 4th July, which ironically is American Independence day. Though as I said above, DSP said he had 3 strikes on July 7th. That's an extra 3 days after the Atlus copyright strike would have ended. So where am I going with this? He was telling his fans on Twitter that he had 3 strikes on July 7th, when he should have only had 2, since he was saying his ability to upload videos was taken away that would have meant he had 3 strikes. But there's more, with the fact that he went to Twitch to make an "emergency" stream where he begged his fans for bits and cheers to support his upcoming vacation this Wednesday, and also made a Twitlonger about this.
So in summary, quickly, July 7th he apparently received 2 copyright strikes from Rockstar Games, Inc which he himself said were not genuine. He went to Twitter and Twitch to make public announcements regarding 3 strikes against his channel, the extra from Atlus, although the expiration date of the strike would have ended 3 days prior. However, it may not be known to all, but asking your followers/fans on Twitch for bits/cheers/donations for financial gain is actually against Twitch's 'Bits Acceptable Use Policy' TOS. And DSP does this almost every single day he streams. Let's take a quote from the TOS:
i., v. and vi. in particular show that asking your fans to donate via bits/cheers is against the TOS, and as mentioned, he does this every day both on Twitch and in his weekly VLOGs on his YouTube channel.
That aside, it's of my opinion that the 2 allegedly false strikes from Rockstar Games, Inc that DSP claimed he got are either completely made up by him, OR he is using these fake strikes to solicit money from his fans. Somebody added up the total amount that DSP was donated during the broadcast he did about the 2 copyright strikes and well...:
"As I was asked to check on the Twitch income for the Rockstar strikes emergency, I checked on-screen tips too: ~$899.50, plus ~$272.12." He made over $1K from his viewers for this "emergency" copyright situation I am not the only one who thinks these 2 strikes were fake, or that DSP took advantage of them to beg/solicit/ask his viewers/fans for money on Twitch, Twitter AND YouTube.
Is this behaviour allowed? Can a YouTuber streaming on Twitch solicit his fans for money through, what appears to be, false copyright strikes? Oh and by the way, all 3 strikes are allegedly now removed, just 2 days before his vacation begins. As far as I know, copyright strikes (that are genuine) from giants such as Rockstar, do not last for 3 days then magically disappear; despite contact with them or a MCN directly, though I am not 100% on this. However, there seems to be a disgruntle of facts that his genuine Atlus strike lasted 17 days, whereas the 2 alleged strikes from Rockstar Games, Inc only lasted 3.
