Bungie Files Lawsuit Against Account Holders Allegedly Behind Destiny 2 YouTube Strikes

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Bungie and the Destiny 2 community is still recovering from a wave of DMCA strikes against various content creators in the Destiny 2 community, including big name creators like MyNameIsByf and Aztecross. In the aftermath, Bungie has been investigating the strikes for a potential cause and, more importantly, those who may be responsible. It appears the accounts allegedly responsible for terrorizing the game's community have been found and Bungie intends to take down the account holders itself.

The lawsuit, filed on March 25 in a Washington state court and first reported by TorrentFreak, targets 10 unidentified John Does allegedly responsible for the DMCA strike wave against both Bungie and various Destiny 2 creators. Bungie accuses the account holders of abusing the studio's trademarks, violations of consumer protection law, and at least four additional causes which all caused «nearly incalculable damage» to both the studio and the game's community.

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While Bungie has filed a subpoena for additional information on the accounts, the studio said in its suit it believes the strikes were in retaliation for strikes Bungie had issued earlier in March. These strikes were said to be against channels posting Destiny soundtrack videos, and Bungie believed these account holders were the ones responsible as the strike wave began the day after the studio's strikes went through. Bungie added to this, saying the Gmail accounts linked to the strike requests were similar to the ones used for the studio's own strike requests.

Bungie also took aim at YouTube, saying the accused were able to issue these strikes «because of a hole in YouTube's DMCA-process security»