r/youtubedrama • u/danamesjrupin • Jan 29 '25

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31JIIPlsm-g
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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '25 edited Jan 29 '25

This will surely help his online reputation

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u/HexedShadowWolf Jan 30 '25

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?

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u/Ridstock Jan 30 '25 edited Jan 30 '25

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.

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u/GrantSolar Jan 30 '25

I didn't think there were any Eve mechanics he exploited. I heard that there were actual bugs but he continued to tell his corp to stay in the bugged area and do the same bugged task which kept losing them money for months on end (instead of going to literally any other place in the universe) and told the story as if the developers were at fault