Bungie says last week's Destiny 2 video takedowns were 'fraudulent'

pcgamer.com:

It turns out that the wave of weird copyright strikes against a number of high-profile Destiny content creators last week were the result of fraudulent takedown requests mixed with a little help from Google.

The situation seemed off from the start last week: The takedown requests impacted some of the most popular Destiny content creators on YouTube, including MyNameIsByf and Aztecross, even though the content in question hadn't changed. Bungie stated that even some of its own content was affected, confirmed that the takedown requests had not been issued by itself or its partners, and said it was digging into the problem.

In today's TWAB, it revealed that the recent wave of takedown «included some takedown actions from fraudulent accounts created to impersonate our IP protection service.»

«Google has confirmed that the accounts that have submitted fraudulent legal requests to YouTube have been terminated and will no longer have access to Google products,» Bungie said. «All fraudulent submissions from these accounts will be reversed (some have already, the rest should come through shortly). The processing of these takedowns was an enforcement mistake by Google, and beyond rescinding the strikes and reinstating the videos, they are also working on process improvements to reduce the likelihood of any similar mistakes in the future.»

Bungie asked that Destiny content creators have patience while it works with YouTube to reverse all the fraudulent claims, and requested that fans not harass employees of CSC, a company that works with Bungie on IP protection. It also posted a list clarifying a number of «misconceptions» about the incident:

Bungie said that those recent «authentic takedowns» were primarily the result of people