We have a thief on the loose stealing TASes and reuploading them without others consent. His name, AthosDominic. His Channel [https://www.youtube.com/@Tailsgamer403|Miles Gabriel Prower]. He also has other channels such as [https://www.youtube.com/@SRSVideosChannelGames|SRSVideosChannel] and [https://www.youtube.com/@athosdominic12223-c|TheFlyingGabriel.]
Edit: nevermind with this, as on this website I have found out it is legal to do this. Nonetheless, I will be on discord making updates about this guy if you want to try to ban him along with me.
By submitting to TASVideos you upload your TAS under CC BY 2.0. Which just means, as long as you provide appropriate credit you can practically do whatever with the TAS.
Of course, the issue is for some of these TASes, appropriate credit is not provided, some of these TASes appear to try to claim authorship of TASes which this person definitely did not author, and some just have credits removed. For these TASes specifically, the TAS authors specifically could send takedowns. For ones that just keep attribution intact, there isn't really anything technically wrong.
Of course too, some of these TASes don't even appear to originate from TASVideos, so those could just go through the authors of the TAS to do whatever (standard YouTube license probably would allow takedowns? idk)
Yes but he gives credit with none of the persons consent. All of the people I mentioned never told him that he could do this. He just did it for the sake of doing it.
And I see where you are coming from, yes it was a TASvideos TAS that was reuploaded and I would be fine with that. I would if he didn’t steal others from people that I know didn’t give him consent to steal it
Yes but he gives credit with none of the persons consent. All of the people I mentioned never told him that he could do this. He just did it for the sake of doing it.
ShiningProdigy9000 wrote:
We have a thief on the loose stealing TASes and reuploading them without others consent.
As annoying as this person's behavior might be, some of these videos are not technically "stolen". Some are reuploads of alternative downloadables provided by TASVideos. Others aren't associated with TASVideos at all. Some actually provide accurate attributions. Some almost do, but then wrongly include himself as an additional author.
CasualPokePlayer rightly explains: in cases where they provide correct attribution, they are allowed to upload the video. In cases where they don't, or where a different license is being infringed upon, then the original author(s) must be the one(s) to issue claims against the video.
If you can tie these youtube accounts to an account on this site, or our Discord server, then we may be able to take action against them on those platforms. No account named "AthosDominic" exists on either platform.
Is it weird that I always feel disappointed that none of my TASes are ever stolen? :(
I feel left out.
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Yes but he gives credit with none of the persons consent. All of the people I mentioned never told him that he could do this. He just did it for the sake of doing it.
ShiningProdigy9000 wrote:
We have a thief on the loose stealing TASes and reuploading them without others consent.
As annoying as this person's behavior might be, some of these videos are not technically "stolen". Some are reuploads of alternative downloadables provided by TASVideos. Others aren't associated with TASVideos at all. Some actually provide accurate attributions. Some almost do, but then wrongly include himself as an additional author.
CasualPokePlayer rightly explains: in cases where they provide correct attribution, they are allowed to upload the video. In cases where they don't, or where a different license is being infringed upon, then the original author(s) must be the one(s) to issue claims against the video.
If you can tie these youtube accounts to an account on this site, or our Discord server, then we may be able to take action against them on those platforms. No account named "AthosDominic" exists on either platform.
Yea there is no account on this site. So idk if you all can help. This was mainly for the people who didnt know their TAS was stolen by him and wanted to take action. I understand if this post was unnecessary, my fault.
There was a similar case that happened a few months ago, except that time the person was actually using the TASVideosChannel name and so it also fell under Youtube's rules against impersonation. Their channel did end up getting taken down.
I think the appropriate step is to report the account for the reuploaded content, or at least the reuploaded content that violates the relevant licenses. That would allow Youtube to take action against the channel if they deem it necessary, and it would also allow the authors to take down the individual videos they made.
Also, I mentioned this on the discord, but I figured I should mention it here as well. Right now, it appears that TASVideosChannel Youtube videos are licensed under Youtube's standard license and not Creative Commons. I'm not sure what this means on TASVideos' side, but this does mean that reuploads of the Youtube videos on TASVideosChannel are not permitted by the licenses as of right now.
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Quick update just in case anyone still cares about this guy: He's tried registering to the site five times over the past couple days, and has been unable to get through. Probably because he's attempting to register with @tasvideos.org email addresses.
In short, if he ever manages to put in a real email address, he's getting permabanned immediately.
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Now infrequently posting on BlueskywarmCabin wrote:
You shouldn't need a degree in computer science to get into this hobby.
Am I missing something? Why is this guy being permabanned? Reuploading isn't against the rules. And I can't know for sure because the youtube accounts have been deleted, but from what I've read in the rest of the thread, it doesn't seem the guy was making a mockery of anything?
From a more constructive viewpoint, if this behavior is not desirable, then should the licensing terms of the TASes be changed?
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Of course, the issue is for some of these TASes, appropriate credit is not provided, some of these TASes appear to try to claim authorship of TASes which this person definitely did not author, and some just have credits removed.
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The content thievery and license violating is one thing, but for me it's this:
Samsara wrote:
Probably because he's attempting to register with @tasvideos.org email addresses.
This, coming from someone who was openly stealing and misattributing TASes, scans to me as attempted staff impersonation, and I'm not going to tolerate that coming from anyone, let alone someone who clearly isn't above falsifying his presence on things he isn't a part of.
TASvideos Admin and acting Senior Judge 💙 Currently unable to dedicate a lot of time to the site, taking care of family.
Now infrequently posting on BlueskywarmCabin wrote:
You shouldn't need a degree in computer science to get into this hobby.
