This video discusses several significant developments in the tech industry. It covers impending price increases for CPUs from Intel and AMD, potential shortages due to supply chain issues, and Sony's price hike for the PS5. The FCC's new regulations on routers, banning most foreign-made devices, are examined for their potential to cause shortages and increase government control over internet access. The discontinuation of OpenAI's Sora AI video generator and the appointment of tech CEOs, including AMD's Lisa Su and Nvidia's Jensen Huang, to a presidential council are also detailed. Finally, the video revisits the ongoing issue of DMCA abuse for silencing critics.
Here is the full transcript of the video:
Hey, welcome back to the hardware news recap for the week. This is actually the second one for the week because there's been a ton of news. So, uh, first up, Intel says no 290K plus CPU. Also, the PS5 prices have increased where the PS5 Pro now, which came out like I don't know, almost two years ago or something. 2024 it came out, I think. That is now $900, up from 700. Uh, the PS portal is also up. They're both up over 25%. The FCC won't let me be or let routers be from internationally. I the routers can't be from other places. Only America can make the routers now. Currently, we don't do that. But uh there's going to be a plan for it. AMD and Intel hiking CPU prices. And also Lisa Sue joins the government's council of tech CEO corruption and we ratio the ever living out of her on Twitter cuz I do we should normalize bullying CEOs for doing bad things that are uh I think corrupt. So let's get into the news. 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Actually, so did Snowflake. She rolled them a few times, finding that the embedded objects didn't meaningfully change the roll results for casual play. Support us directly and grab a high quality dice kit available in both autographed and regular at the link in the description below. Thanks for your help. All right, so first up, system integrators have informed us that they're having trouble getting CPUs now where they're saying that there's an additional two to uh 6 weeks time beyond the prior time to get access when they're ordering in the supply chain. Um, this is on top the prior delays that they were talking about and this matches the published rumors earlier this year where companies in China said they were having difficulty getting CPUs in a timely fashion from both AMD and Intel. That is now being reflected in global markets as well. We've spoken to SI's in Europe and in the United States and both have expressed similar things. In addition to this, a little over a week ago, uh, Tech Power published a re-report of a Korean news source indicating that Intel intends to increase CPU prices by about 10%. This past week, following the backroom conversations about Intel price increases, NIC Asia Review has stated that AMD CPU prices are expected to increase by 15% in the coming months. Nicay Asia via Tech PowerUp cites an 8 to 12 week timeline on CPU shipments, which aligns with the timelines we were just given and I mentioned a moment ago. This is alongside other inbound price increases. We've already known about the memory and SSD price increases. Uh the Steam Deck, at least one of them, was put on pause because of memory supply issues. The Steam frame and Steam machine were delayed because of memory and storage supply issues. And now ASUS's news is that it is planning to increase prices on several of its product categories by 30%. Up next, alongside AMD's 9950 X3D2 announcement, which we covered in the episode just before this one, it's it's a 9950 X3D except with two CCDs that have the extra cash on it. It's more cash. Uh Intel has confirmed that it doesn't have a response. That's right. That's normally normally they don't do it that way, but Intel said that its Ultra 9290K won't exist. So, the company explained its status in a statement to PC games hardware. And through machine translation, it reads, quote, "The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Ultra 5 250K Plus are positioned to deliver outstanding game performance at incredible value to our competition." I think that's that's probably supposed to I think the machine translation's a little off there, but I'm not sure what it's gonna say on the screen. Depends. It seems like the browsers give you a different one every time, but as compared to their competition. Let's go with that. The quote continues, "Our objective was to maximize performance for the desktop SKUs that are most available. As a result, Intel is not launching a 290K plus skew." End quote. This effectively confirms that the 250KP and 270KP are likely the last two CPUs on this platform. Intel not launching 290K, not entirely opposed to that, just in general, because the 270K Plus is already kind of kicking the ass. the 9950X in a lot of situations is like half the price. So, it might be something where Intel's like, "We don't even need to respond." Um, it's always good to have, you know, more options out there, but especially with the way the market is right now and prices and things, maybe it makes sense for them to just focus on the 250 270K Plus. Uh, we'd always like to see a flagship. It's just when they're already competing with the existing flagship outside of Thread Ripper in production workloads and gaming actually to some extent um without having a higher end part than what they just put out then I don't I $300 CPU to get something that Intel used to sell for 400 is a massive move in the right direction for the company. So AMD is still at the top with X3D CPUs for gaming. It's just in production like we talked about the 270KP review. Uh Intel's a real threat there which is awesome. like it's great to see some real competition. Talk sucks about the rest of the market like the memory prices, but you know that's we haven't seen that in a while. Um overall we like the positioning of the 270K Plus. 250K Plus wasn't bad. The 270 was really interesting though. And um our biggest complaint about the CPU is that it's on a dead-end platform. So I really hope Intel takes that seriously next time where they they get over their ego and they just make something that actually can have CPUs for more than one and a half generations. that would be nice. But realistically, Intel is likely suffering the same fate as most the other hardware manufacturers right now on the consumer side, which is a lot lower sales. So, and this is something we'll be talking about more, but um in Intel's case, it's contributing to its own problems by being part of the AI bubble. Just it's it's two different groups of the same company, and it's the consumer group that is getting screwed here. But, I mean, fortunately for them, the rest of the company is part of the AI bubble. So, I guess that works out. Uh and they're part owned by Nvidia and the United States. So related to price increases, Sony also announced some the same week. So we've got Asus, Sony, Intel, AMD, at least those two kind of behind the scenes and a few others, but Sony's are big uh changes by percentage. The company cited quote continued pressures in the global economic landscape. End quote, which is putting it lightly and said that quote, "This was a necessary step. The updated recommended retail prices for PS5 consoles are effective starting April 2nd, 2026 as follows." End quote. They're giving some time, some heads up at least. In the US, Sony noted that the PS5 will now be sold at $650. $600 for the digital edition and $900 for the PS5 Pro. Europe gets the same treatment except in euros instead. Sony also noted that its PS portal system will now be $250 in the US. The $900 PS5 Pro price is up 29% since its launch in November of 2024. Prices are supposed to go down as technology ages, not up. And this has especially been true of consoles over the years. The PS portal has been $200 for a couple years at least now and is increasing 25%. Up next, Brendan Cars FCC has effectively ended the sale and importation of foreignade routers, even if it's US companies making them overseas uh in a new covered list entry after the executive branch of the government concluded that foreignade routers quote pose unacceptable risks end quote to safety and security of the US and its persons which uh we think alongside the ID verification requirements and restricting access to certain websites, especially without ID, starts to lay the groundwork for a a government control in general of the internet for the United States and an ability to build a domestic surveillance apparatus. That is the direction I think we're going with this. Speaking with Wendell of Level One Tech, he has a lot of similar concerns with government control over networking devices. And I mean as far as posing unacceptable risk to safety and security of the US and its persons, I I think we can point to quite a few things that the government itself is doing that also would match that definition, but somehow we haven't banned it. So, the FCC's so-called covered list is a list that the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau publishes quote of communications equipment and services that are deemed to pose an unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States or security and safety of the United States people and quote despite previously only listing individual companies and specific equipment. The covered list's latest entry simply states, quote, "Routers produced in a foreign country except routers which have been granted a conditional approval by, as they say, the DO or the DHS." End quote. To be clear, almost every router commercially available is made not in the United States. So, uh, an interesting plan, but there exists effectively no manufacturing infrastructure to make routers in any meaningful quantity or price in the United States. This seems to have been enacted without an immediate plan. But the regulations may also be another of the type where companies can just simply bribe their way through them by paying various super PACs, inaugural committees or candidates to get their approvals with uh we'll call them donations. At the time of writing, the Department of Defense, which is still formally and legally named the Department of Defense, not the DOW, as only an act of Congress can actually rename it and there hasn't been one yet, and the Department of Homeland Security have conditionally approved four drone system devices. These include one from Sci-Fily Aviation, MobileCom, Scoutdi, and Verge Arrow, with each one's approval granted less than a week before the covered list's latest update. The executive branch explains the decision further in its summary of determination, stating, quote, "The president's 2025 National Security Strategy or NSS says, and they've got a sub quote here, the United States must never be dependent on any outside power for core components from raw materials to parts to finished products necessary to the nation's defense or economy. We must resecure our own independent and reliable access to the goods we need to defend ourselves and preserve our way of life. And sub quote, "One of these core components that is necessary to both our nation's defense and economy is routers. Allowing routers produced abroad to dominate the US market creates unacceptable economic, national security, and cyber security risks." End quote. Now look, from a purely technological standpoint, all the other aside, purely technologically, absent other ideology, although certainly I've made mine clear, um our opinion is that there's no greater risk to the residents of any nation than that nation's own government overseeing the communications devices that the citizens or residents of that nation use. that is a pathway to authoritarianism and control of free speech. I mean technologically speaking again absent all the other purely technologically if you control the flow of communication to and from the internet through something like a router you control everything that's a control of the media that's a control of how people talk to each other. Sure, you get into like meshet stuff and whatever and maybe that becomes more of a thing which wouldn't be a bad thing, but uh it enables governments which clearly are also in bed with corporations. So there could be competitive concerns here too. Even if you take away all the free speech stuff too, even just from a free market perspective, if that's your thing, this is controlling the market in a way that is inherently not free. And likewise creates a situation where companies that are in bed with the government are able to potentially enact change that affects their competition as it comes to things like how they're surfaced on the internet. If you control the supply of routers, you can uh insert, as the government points out here, ironically, malware that can tap into exactly what people are looking at, what they're reading, who they're talking to, what they're communicating about. There are encryption layers and protections and SSL and all this stuff. But if you can control the router, you can get a lot of information that's dangerous to have about an individual. Um, and it's just a matter of waiting until they're interested enough to use that information. And that's kind of my opinion on it. So whatever country it is, I don't really care. But controlling networking infrastructure and communications protocols, that's dangerous. Uh people talk about the great firewall of China a lot. I've been there. I've experienced it. It's real. Uh huge pain in the ass, you know, trying to use anything that I need to use since we operate on Google. But people talk about that. I've met people who have no idea that certain events have happened in China because of that. and you start to clamp down on it starts with adult content which they've done because it's hard to argue against that because it might be embarrassing to people then it slowly spreads like like a cancer on the system and I think that's what we're sort of seeing here. So anyway those are my thoughts on it. Um but this is a path I think towards that the US is already requiring government ID to access a lot of websites. Meta Facebook is lobbying to mandate government ID verification for use of things like uh I saw connections to potentially operating systems via meta lobbying if I understood it correctly as one of the things they're pushing for and you know there's an aim now to also control routers so the infrastructure is going to be in place to exercise control over people what they see and what they say um because if you think you might be tracked you're going to be careful about what you say so anyway even if you think that I'm like a crazy conspiracy theorist for seeing and being concerned about these things from a technology perspective. Again, even if you just look at the economic implications, uh this creates a restrictive anti-competitive market where consumers get locked into high prices and reduced access to companies that are competitive or innovate and that's I think a problem. So anyway, the post cites specific attacks submitting that quote, "Routers produced abroad were directly implicated in the Voltault, Flax, and Salt Typhoon cyber attacks, which targeted critical American communications, energy, transportation, and water infrastructure." End quote. Now, be clear, US-made devices are really no more secure against those types of things. They can all be exploited this way. So, um, they're every bit as vulnerable to attacks, maybe even more if they have less experience building the routers properly because they don't do it. The FCC also describes exactly what being on the covered list entails, explaining, quote, "New devices on the covered list, such as foreignade consumer grade routers, are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US. This update to the covered list does not prohibit the import, sale, or use of any existing device models the FCC previously authorized. This action does not affect any previously purchased consumer-grade routers. consumers can continue to use any router they have already lawfully purchased or acquired." End quote. The FCC also clarifies on its FAQ page that there aren't any restrictions on consumers ability to use covered routers. Our understanding is the restrictions would instead apply to the devices FCC authorization future importation and future sale mostly affecting new products going forward. Which again I want to point out the technological irony here where if the concern is malware and attack vectors then blocking the importation and sale of new things that bacon better protections is not going to help with that. Keeping people on older stuff that has known exploits that can be more easily compromised that might have weaker encryption standards that's the worst part of the deal here that is not being stated. I don't know if they don't think about it, but I think it is easy to overlook that wait a minute if people don't buy new stuff because it's too expensive or doesn't exist or the thing they want doesn't ex becomes a a challenge where as companies age the product and stop updating it especially it becomes the security vulnerability becomes a a feedback loop or maybe a self-fulfilling prophecy if you want to look at it that way. The register points out that quote the flaw with the policy is that practically all routers are manufactured in other countries. End quote. Some of the largest router manufacturers including TPLink, Netgear, ASUS, Lynxes, and Cisco manufacture the majority of their routers outside the US. Meaning if the FCC doesn't conditionally approve those manufacturers newest models, we may potentially see a router shortage in the notsodistant future. Now, there's good news. these companies can probably make, we'll call them political contributions to get around these restrictions, which would help to resolve the problem, I guess, but that's not much better. On the other hand, domestic manufacturers like Starlink, which produces routers in Texas and is owned by a man who has worked for the government, uh, seem positioned well to benefit from the recent changes. That's also pretty interesting, I think. Now, we don't expect the FCC's update to cause any immediate changes because it applies to the newest models, but this is something that will be a problem over time. Uh, especially as models roll out with either new features where we're going to start lagging behind in technology implementation or as they roll out with security changes that may not be possible to enact on older models or that companies may be unwilling to enact on older models because they're old and they're not making money anymore on them. Um, so anyway, we're certainly interested in how the decision will unfold over time. We'll cover it some more as we as we see more unfold, though. But there's some good news, some light-hearted news here, which is that OpenAI killed Sora. Sora is open was OpenAI's free AI slop generator. and it announced its decision on Twitter, which is a human slop generator that's becoming a human AI slop generator interface, saying, quote, "We're saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it. Thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing. We'll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API, and details on preserving your work. Signed, the Sora team." End quote. That's right. what you made mattered for the Open AI team to suck in all the data and prompts and everything they could attach to your account and then use it to train their other AI or something. But the uh it's they it's I will say it's not disappointing. I'm I'm quite appointed actually. Is that the opposite of disappointment? >> Everyone here is extremely gruntled. >> An hour after posting the company edited its announcement, changing quote, "We're saying goodbye to Sora." End quote. to instead read, quote, "We're saying goodbye to the Sora app." End quote. We assume this edit seemed to suggest that uh Open AI only planned on killing the Sora app and not the Sora internet service, but the BBC and New York Times have each separately confirmed that in fact both platforms are being terminated. Maybe they're keeping the name or something. Oddly, OpenAI never actually explained why it was killing the app. Although Thomas Husten of Forester reported via the BBC claims that Sora was a quote resource black hole end quote and speculates that quote the decision may have been taken now to minimize the associated risks in the run-up to a potential stock launch end quote. Regarding what's next for Sora, the New York Times notes quote in a statement to the New York Times, OpenAI said it would continue to use video generation technologies behind the scenes as a way of teaching skills to robots. Because videos provide a reasonable simulation of the physical world, they are often used to train robots for specific tasks. End quote. Possibly foreshadowing a future partnership between OpenAI and Nvidia, even further as it relates to Nvidia's Omniverse technology. All of this comes less than four months after signing a three-year licensing agreement with Disney in which Disney agreed to become a quote major customer of OpenAI using its API to build new products, tools, and experiences end quote and also agreed to quote make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI and receive warrants to purchase additional equity end quote. Interestingly, Reuters reports that the quote transaction between the companies never closed. Two other people familiar with the matter said and no money changed hands end quote. which just sounds like OpenAI's business model in general. Make promises and boost the valuation of everyone involved and then uh don't move any money around. And when you do move the money around, it's the same money going back and forth. According to the BBC, quote, a spokesperson for the Walt Disney Company said uh sub quote here, we respect OpenAI's decision to exit the video generation business and to shift its priorities elsewhere. End quote. While this is a small victory in the fight against AI slop, we can't help but feel a little bit concerned about the suddenness of the move and what OpenAI is planning next because it does doesn't seem like it's it I don't think it's going to be good. Uh, up next, Jensen and Lisa Su join the Council of Tech Corruption. That's uh that's my name for it. Up next, the Tech Executives Council of Corruption gains new members. and GN bullies Lisa Sue on Twitter just like we do to Jensen Juan to be clear and Sam Alman and and and all of them really. President Trump just appointed the first 13 of 24 paying members sorry individuals designated to serve on the president's council of adviserss on science and technology including the likes of AMD's Lisa Sue who excitedly accepted on Twitter while gleefully praising Epstein associate Howard Lutnik. also including Nvidia's Jensen Juan who recently said he's 100% in on the war in Iran. I was also asked you know given what's happening in the Middle East. Uh is that an area where we believe that we can expand artificial intelligence too? Um I believe that there's a reason we went to war and I believe at the end of the war Middle East will be more stable than before. And so if we were there, if we're considering it before, we should absolutely be considering it after. And so I'm 100% in on that. >> And Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, who's lobbying for ID verification laws potentially at the operating system level as we understand it, and Alphabet's Sergey Brin, who also has ties to Epstein and Maxwell for visiting the island, just to name a few of the Arudite members. No matter who Jensen and Lisa sit next to, although we are curious if they get to choose their own seats, it seems that their options are sitting next to a man on the Science and Technology Council who actually at one point said he believes that American technology can manipulate space and time, sitting next to a man with financial ties to crypto tether, uh, or visitors to Epstein Island. Those are their options. Welcome to the council, Jensen and Lisa. Uh, of course, the cousins could also just sit next to each other and discuss the family business. Shockingly, and we know this is hard to believe, but nearly every executive that Trump appointed has either directly or indirectly contributed financially to the Trump administration, its connected campaigns, its inaugural committees, or its ballroom at some point. honestly a relatively cheap price of admission because what this council does is enables these tech CEOs to make public policy directly with the government in collaboration with it. And uh AMD's recent million-doll donation to MAGA Inc. is a pretty cheap entry price for Lisa Sue. As for the remaining seats, the White House released notes, quote, "Additional members will be appointed in the near future along with information about how you can pay to get a ticket." No, wait, no, that doesn't that that's not right. Where did the I lost lost my place on the with information about how about the council's first meeting. Uh sorry, I misread that. Anyway, uh we actually have a video clip of the council's first meeting and in it you can see Jensen Juan welcoming Lisa Sue to the council. >> You're on this council, but we do not grant you the rank of master. >> What? Now, Gamers Access also through its sources obtained a secretive video clip of Nvidia CEO Jensen Juan accepting his invitation to the council from Trump. >> Miss Ja Binks, missing your humble servant. >> Interestingly, the president established the PCAST through an executive order enacted back in January 2025. A press release at the time explained the group's supposed purpose, stating, quote, "The PCAST shall advise the president on matters involving science, technology, education, and magnets." And that's why we're welcoming the insane clown. Oh, no, wait, I mixed it up again. Innovation policy, not magnets. The council shall also provide quote the president with scientific and technical information that is needed to inform public policy relating to the American economy, the American worker, national and homeland security, and other topics. End quote. Our understanding is that this gives control over public policy to executives like Lisa Sue, Jensen Juan, Mark Zuckerberg, and people like that. Further down in the executive orders administration clause, it states, quote, "The Department of Energy shall provide such funding and administrative and technical support as the PCAST may require to the extent permitted by law and as authorized by existing appropriations. In order to allow the PCAST to provide advice and analysis regarding classified matters, the co-chairs may request that members of the PCAST, its standing subcommittees, or ad hoc groups who do not hold a current clearance for access to classified information receive security clearance and access determinations pursuant to executive order 12968 of August 2nd, 1995." End quote. Uh so basically our read on this is in addition to being helmed by AI hyperscalers, data center executives or people involved in buying and selling two data centers uh and in addition to the tech CEO's now significant control directly over public policy through via membership of this board. It will also be limitlessly funded, it seems, by the department of energy. And again, we're talking about data centers which have an energy problem. Uh, and this will supposedly grant members security clearance to access classified information as well. Within hours of the PCAST announcing its newest members, AMD CEO Lisa Sue, apparently unable to contain herself after licking a tasty boot, publicly thanked Epstein's old pal, Secretary Lutnik. Sue lately has thanked Lutnik a lot recently. You should know, and you should also be aware that Lutnik has been linked to discussion of bailouts of private entities in past that probably don't really deserve it. We think so. To us, this is a signal that these companies want to be in with the right people when the bubble pops and when the bailout money needs to start getting doled out. Anyway, Lisa Sue said this to her new friend. Quote, "Thank you, Howard Lutnik, for joining the Semiconductor Industry Association board for an important discussion on strengthening America's leadership in semiconductors and expanding our domestic manufacturing footprint. We deeply appreciate the open dialogue and partnership with the Commerce Department as we work together to accelerate America's tech stack and expand opportunities across the US workforce." End quote. As for us, we uh we had our own thoughts and so did like all of Twitter that saw it. To us, all of this is directly relevant to these tech companies. They are helming the boards making public decisions with a government that is rolling out restrictions on router sales among other things. And in this situation, these companies are positioning themselves to drive public policy, work with the Department of Energy, especially at a time with an energy crisis where everyone's bill is going up despite the government planning uh to offer BYO power plant alternatives, or as I'm calling it, BYOP. So, they have one one fewer P than Intel's PPP, but they do still have a BYOP plan. And most recently, Lisa and Katzios, the White House man in charge for data center policy, are working together to, as we read these decisions they make, reduce clean air and clean water protections for people who live near where data centers are going in. As we said in the AMD WTF video, because you, you shouldn't have bought a house next to that data center-shaped forest. These companies have a fast track to destroying or plowing through any regulations in their way. And this isn't just like an environment thing. I This is health and safety. It's noise. It's whatever. It's it's everything bad that comes with just a gigantic structure popping up that pulls tons of power without any planning whatsoever going into it or at least with less planning than used to be federally mandated. Uh and also barreling through states rights over these issues is something we've repeatedly brought up. This is something Katzios himself seems to be continually pushing and Lisa Sue seems to love working with Katzios when he's not selling Shamwow. He's standing on stage with Lisa Sue at CES uh 2026. Ultimately, we're concerned about the implications of the increased political power that is being acred by these tech CEOs and those serving on PCAST specifically. We haven't yet fully comprehended each member's individual level of control, the extent of it, but I'm sure we'll start seeing it pretty soon. All right, last one. Almost a month ago, we responded to a YouTube channel that called us. >> Good little marketing slaves. >> And now about a month later, that channel has a response. They took it down, but they put one out there and we saw it. Uh, as we said at the time, we were more interested in responding to what we thought was abuse of the DMCA copyright strike system specifically to silence critics and uh, that's the channel sort of talked about that. It's pretty interesting. If you really give a crap about irrelevant DMCA drama and want to learn why we strike disgusting, lying thieves on multiple platforms, you can read the pen comment on this video. We made sure disgusting people got exactly what they deserved and we would do it again in a heartbeat because we've done nothing wrong. >> Previously, we showed how we think YouTube channel Threat Interactive has silenced critics at least seven to eight times by using DMCA strikes, largely citing critics displaying his thumbnails in their videos as the reason for the DMCA strikes. This also included via lawyers who somehow passed the bar sending a cease and desist in what we think was an attempt to stop critic Dallaso from speaking out. We won't spend much time on this, but silencing critics with illegitimate copyright strikes via the DMCA copyright system is uh illegal, so it deserves some attention. Here's a quick recap though of what happened last time in case you missed it. So why do these companies even try? because they know channels like Hardware Unboxed, Gamers Nexus, Digital Foundry, and all these other mainstream voices are going to be good little marketing slaves that are going to dramatize a non-existent race like some kind of infinite NASCAR event. >> So, first of all, I'm over here catching straight. What the did I do? >> I look at the computer. The computer say >> hardware unboxed digital fan gamers Nexus. >> I'm like, WHAT HE SAY ME FOR? I forgot to take off my good little marketing slave cap to quote him when I was talking about the DRAM cartel. You know what? The guy who's asking for $900,000 from his audience to fix video game graphics once and for all and can't set up an ultra key or green screen without noisy artifacting has a point. And uh I think I think it's time we hear him out, listen to what he has to say since he's presenting it. Yeah. I just want to make sure I'm kind of dressed for the occasion here so I can really take it all in. I just too much as the green. It's a little too much with the green. I think I look kind of like auto man from the Simpsons. Anyway, in the time since Threat Interactive DMCA struck another person this time, someone who re-uploaded our video clip from GN critical of his actions. I want to be clear, we didn't strike the guy who reuploaded that clip. You can upload clips. I don't give a I was fine with it. Threat Interactive struck it, we think illegitimately. Threat Interactive also admitted on Twitter that quote, "We will DMCA strike liars and those who are wait and those who are spread misinformation that dumbs down the public on purpose. Why are you defending those who call you dumb, and want to keep you dumb?" end quote. Yes. Yes. I I hate people who spread who who are spread misinformation and keep public dumb and so I DMCA strike them. That's how it works. Uh not only should this not be a legal use of the English language or a keyboard. It's also not a legal use of the DMCA copyright strike system. And he has now put his invalid uses in writing. file it away in our things the lawyers really wish you didn't put in writing category of coverage. In fact, when submitting a DMCA takedown request on YouTube, you are signing under penalty of perjury that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner. Threat Interactive filing to take down our own clip that a user re-uploaded could be a false attestation to the authority to act on behalf of the copyright owner, which is us. Now, all issues are important, but I'm just saying perjury on the scale of perjury and you really hate TAA so much that the mods of SLR/Fuck TAA ban you, they're they're somewhere somewhere like this apart from each other. But more recently, in a video that he immediately took down like within an hour or something, he said this, "And we're so not going to fall for their pathetic attempt to demonize us for copy striking accounts that steal our content." If you really give a crap about irrelevant DMCA drama and want to learn why we strike disgusting, lying thieves on multiple platforms, you can read the pen comment on this video because I'm not letting Steve buy any more time against my accusations. It is such a blatant red herring, it's embarrassing. Long story short, we made sure disgusting people got exactly what they deserved and we would do it again in a heartbeat because we've done nothing wrong. You are a lazy, gullible hypocrite if you try to use this topic to invalidate this channel's work. >> I All of the demonizing seems to be coming from within the house. I'm not trying to demonize anyone. I'm just saying this guy is the one who's copyright striking people for what he thinks is, to quote him, spreading misinformation and lying, which even if those things are true, is not a legitimate use of DMCA. That's a different problem. And I mean, honestly, frankly, if uh striking someone for spreading misinformation and lying were valid, then we wouldn't have any politicians or CEOs to criticize on this channel anyway. But I've watched those video clips and in my opinion, the people struck were transformatively using his content. They were not thieves or stealing it and they were providing fair use criticism in my opinion as not a lawyer, but I I've been through this Rainer with Bloomberg. Like we're we're pretty well connected here. So I'm just saying that's not really how any of this works. But um the users appear to be sharing their opinions that just happen to be critical of Threat Interactive is what I'm saying. He handwaves all this, says it's drama. Like, spoiler alert. Big difference between internet drama and you might actually be breaking laws. That's it's kind of that's like a pretty critical difference. Um, but anyway, the DMCA does not allow for content to be taken down on account of misinformation or lies, if that's even true. And YouTube and Twitter both highlight invalid DMCA uses. Quote, "Only the copyright owner or an authorized representative can submit a copyright removal request. The information in this notification is accurate and under penalty of perjury, I am the owner or an agent authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed." End quote. It also says, quote, "I understand that abuse of this tool, such as submitting removal requests for content I do not own, may result in termination of my YouTube account." End quote. Finally, I can't help but notice that he didn't have the balls to
