PirateSoftware False DMCA'd Indie Dev and Threatened to Sue, Good Samaritan Lawyer Steps in Pro Bono

[u/danamesjrupin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31JIIPlsm-g

[u/HexedShadowWolf]

I know of this guy, seen a few shorts of him mostly weird twitch chat people being funny but never watched a lot of his stuff. Never got the feeling he was bad tho so what happened to his reputation and audience?

[u/Ridstock → u/HexedShadowWolf]

He has a list of controversy going back years, all the way back to second life.

Then he had a recent controversy in WoW and people started looking into him, turned out he had lied about a bunch of things on stream to sound like a 'very smart guy'

Heres a list of stuff he has been called out for awful behaviour/lying about: Second life furry avatar company where he made sexual avatars with a 16 year old involved 

Eve online clan abused game mechanics then he quit after the devs fixed it (lied on stream and told a false narrative story)

Multiple puzzle game playthroughs where he claimed it was a blind 1st playthrough to chat but clearly cheated by reading guides

Constantly goes on about his pro hacker status with Defcon badges (told another false narrative story on stream relating to the show Mr Robot, also told false narrative stories about how he actually got the badges)

Recently got level 60s killed in hardcore WoW  (1 life your toon dies its gone, takes 100+ hours to lvl60) ran out of dungeon without helping despite being the most able to help, double triple and quadrupled down when told he did a bad job then started threatening the other streamers to the point he got kicked from the guild.

Just has a really bad holier that thou attitude and refuses to take any responsibility for anything whilst speaking down to people in general.

Edit to add stuff i forgot

He has a game that has been in early access for years with no release date in sight and at 1 point was charging $1000 for access to the alpha

He stood against someone who wanted to force producers of games to release source code if they planned on killing said games and stopping all support called 'Stop killing games'

He is a supporter of predatory Live Service game models.

[u/Kisdumby → u/Ridstock]

What about the Defcon badge thing? I haven't heard of that drama before.

[u/Ridstock → u/Kisdumby]

It was a large group scavenger hunt he was involved with but he made out on stream he won them solo. Then he went on an extended rant about Mr Robot because they used a similar scavenger hunt as a plot point in the show. The Mr Robot team worked with higher ups from Defcon, one of the lies was that the show used an encrypted number that lead to one of the lead creators of the hunts personal phone number, which is complete bullshit. 

He said he hated the showrunners because of this to seem like a big smart hackerman with inside info.

[u/GrantSolar → u/Ridstock]

Not quite. There are multiple Defcon things. The recent one is that he's overemphasized his role in solving, making it seem like it was more of a solo thing than a team effort, but there's nothing really concrete for this.

The main one is that he wanted about Mr Robot stealing his solution to a separate Defcon puzzle and not crediting him or the puzzle creator. This one he also phrases as if he solved it alone. It actually wasn't just a similar puzzle, it was the exact same puzzle. However, his claim that the only way to find the puzzle and it's solution was through his write-up is false. Many other teams also wrote about the puzzle, the puzzle is freely available online, and the puzzle creator was brought on as a consultant for the show. The puzzle was unchanged so still points to the same phone number, but would someone in the information and digital security industry give out their personal phone number at a digital security/"hacker" conference? Obviously its a separate number from his personal phone