Magic to Master Developer Threatened Legal Action Against MMO YouTuber Before Finally Admitting To False Copyright Strike
Magic to Master's developer Laniatus threatened legal action against MMO YouTuber Callum Upton based on a video Upton released about the company's Kickstarter campaign. However, since then Laniatus' Kickstarter has crashed to the ground, which may have been caused by a copyright strike they issued against Upton.
If you've not been following this, Magic to Master is an MMO that is attempting to get funded via Kickstarter. When the MMO launched its Kickstarter page, it was found to be using fake testimonials from us, our friends at MassivelyOP, Game Rant, and others. These testimonial reviews were fraudulent and when the company was called out for it the «reviews» were pulled. However, since then Laniatus has fought back against the negative coverage they created, and seemingly lashing out at anyone who even talked about the Kickstarter.
Caught in the crosshairs here was MMO YouTuber Callum Upton. Upon making a video where he talked about the game's Kickstarter (not even all that negatively, either!), the video was issued a copyright strike by Laniatus. This brought the video down and gave a strike to Upton's channel, something that is no laughing matter as three strikes, and your channel is just straight shut down by YouTube.
It's nothing new for developers and publishers to abuse the DMCA takedown system to cull what they feel is negative discourse around their game. However, Upton chose to not be silenced here and instead uploaded thefull version of the video to Twitter, as well as gave multiple players in the MMO space an offline copy to use as well.
In a new video released today, Upton details the latest in the saga, calling the story of Magic to Master a «rabbit hole.»
He's not wrong.
In that video, however, he reveals
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