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[Saga Musix]

Alpha C and Lackluster have been informed. I would also not be surprised if it's all the same person.

[ballistique]

Many thanks to Louigi, Flashy and Saga Musix for reporting on this.  I will contact Spinup and Youtube today.  I'll update you when I have further info.

Thanks again.

Ballistique

[ballistique]

Just a quick update for you.

I have been in touch with Spinnup and have been dealing with the legal team, the deadline for them to respond is today, so hopefully, I'll get some good news.

Youtube, well that's another matter, I got an email from them today that started:

"We are concerned that some of the information in your takedown request may be fraudulent"

This is before they have even asked me to provide details of the infringement. Anyway, I've emailed them back and we'll wait and see what happens.

[ballistique]

I just got an email from Spinnup:

Hi Nathan,

Just to update you, we did not hear back from the Spinnup artist so have now issued a take down of 'Lost in Love Vol. 2' from all stores.

We are very sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

Thanks,

Molly
Spinnup Paralegal

[ballistique]

Email from YouTube:

Hello,

Thank you very much for your notification. The content has been removed.

Sincerely,
The YouTube Team

[Flashira]

yay!

[Saga Musix]

Great to hear.

Youtube, well that's another matter, I got an email from them today that started:

"We are concerned that some of the information in your takedown request may be fraudulent"

Totally not unexpected with their automated system. I wouldn't be surprised if it claimed the same thing for about any video that was uploaded through one of their partners like Spinnup.

[louigi]

I just wish Spinnup could take down the artist themselves. Do they need us to go through every album of that con artist? Isn't it clear they are cheating? Surreal.

[Saga Musix]

Well, I guess for them it's the legally safer method and also less work in the general case... Still sucks, though.

[louigi]

I would say it is very safe legally, and it is less work. You just remove the artist since they breached the Terms and Conditions (as if they are going to seriously sue), and you no longer receive these requests.

I think they just do their work automatically and they are not incentivized to actually do this. So it is easier for them to just work on their tickets. Maybe they have to go through a special internal process to do this since blocking a whole artist might be an edge case.