But someone has laid a nice egg in their own nest. After Destiny YouTuber was overwhelmed by a wave of apparently fake deactivation notices due to copyright infringement, Bungie has now found the culprit and it can be very expensive for him.
In March, both Bungie and numerous Destiny YouTubers received stacks of warnings due to alleged copyright infringement, which caused a lot of concern, especially since it was initially unclear whether Bungie itself was behind it. In the meantime it has turned out that a Youtuber named Nicholas Minor alias Lord Nazo is behind it, apparently out of revenge.
Minor was itself hit with a DMCA takedown by Bungie’s trademark protection provider, CSC Global, for copyright infringement. He had released music from the soundtrack of the 2015 expansion Destiny: The Taken King on his YouTube channel, which is a relatively stupid idea without the permission of the rights holder.
Minor then sent out warning letters on behalf of Bungie’s trademark protection a whopping 96 times, asking YouTubers to remove their Destiny 2 content or face a copyright dispute. He also took part in community discussions and spread untruths there, even sending threatening emails to CSC Global.
This can now be really expensive for Lord Nazo, because Bungie has now filed a lawsuit after the unveiling of the culprit and is demanding damages of a whopping 7.7 million US dollars. Well … Nicolas Minor’s revenge campaign must have gone quite astray with that …