Toei Animation DEFEATED by a YouTuber! (This is BIG!)

[@yurikuki]

I find it baffling that some people think that Toei, a Japanese company that distributes to other countries, is not bound to another country's legal system when in fact they have been known to censor their works in other countries to follow that country's laws. Not only that but Toei has businesses outside of Japan. Like they have an animation studio here in the Philippines.

[@harimauindia5775]

More interestingly, Japanese law doesn't seem to have a problem with mangaka using copyright content from outside Japan

[@harimauindia5775]

Like,in JoJo's bizzare adventure, multiple "stands"(the power system of jjba) are named after music bands or songs from the West The author, Hirohiko Araki, is freely able to use those names,which are copyrighted in the West

[@g0oberdm417]

@@harimauindia5775 That does go into a realm of obscure copyright legality tbf, especially country to country. Referencing other media is quite common in the west even without expressed permission (think D&D in gravity falls, star wars in phineas and ferb [not the movie that later came out] and any multitude of things). Usually using a name is permitted once you're not in the same industry, roughly, in Jojo's case its referencing/ripping the direct name from music (music being different to tv/cinema) but obviously that has caveats. Good example is where No man's sky was nearly forced to change their name because of the british tv service sky (ie tv forcing name changes on gaming) so its not cut and dry. So basically it depends on who's asking and in what context really, though it definitely could go either way if legal action was threatened.

[@Luminousreign]

I am not sure what you are talking about but it isn’t Toei’s fault Japan doesn’t understand copyright. The American copyright system doesn’t mesh with how they perceive copyright. This is why Japanese games companies are how they are as well.

[@Luminousreign]

They’ve lived in a gimmick culture that doesn’t care about their stuff getting yoinked until very recently. They have no idea what is okay or what isn’t and copyright is pretty much whatever is bad for business.

[@TheChampionEccentric]

This is not a complete win, but it's still very much a HUGE step in the right direction. This is very much worth celebrating!

[@dharrmanbestyoutuber]

Yeah I'm still mad his gt review part 1 isn't there's

[@Yomamaveryphat]

VeRy MuCh

[@adambajczyk1451]

Yep except totally not mark, I think he is in a full win since his videos don't show there anymore

[@lulu4882]

tbh it's more of a crisis temporarily averted. i'm glad his life wasn't utterly destroyed by an unfair content ID takedown, but nothing was *gained* and the same thing could happen in the future, but maybe even worse next time. although it is worth celebrating this show of force of the community, that we won't lay down and accept these injustices and are determined to come together and fight when it happens. i won't take that away from anyone.

[@marocat4749]

While i am glad, its a temporary one, and nothing to rest on (we know yt always gets wore all the time), but its something at least, for now.

[@lordgong4980]

So glad to see Mark get sort of a win here. Also F Toei

[@vailingbow1068]

W Fred L Toei

[@arts1628]

Fúćk Toei

[@vailingbow1068]

@@arts1628 YES

[@yedffgd]

The sheer braindead energy of arguing Toei shouldn’t be held to American law astounds me. It’s the other way around, Mark, an American creator operating in America, should not be held to Japanese law. Toei operates in America, and plenty of other countries, and should be, and in a lot of ways ARE, beholden to the laws of those countries. If Toei wants to block the videos in Japan and other countries without fair use law, fine, but they had no right to torch Mark’s channel. EDIT: Mark is Irish. The point, however, is no less valid.

[@Caligula1488]

mark is irish

[@yedffgd]

@@Caligula1488 fuck, my bad, point still stands though

[@marocat4749]

The thing is, thats on yt and how much yt want to aplase the cooperate overlords, which is a lot. That why that compromise is really surprising. (its probably the outrage and people speaking out for mark amonk creators, bigger ons too, but still)

[@lifeofryu7584]

Mark is not am American creator, with your logic, should Toei and Mark not be under EU copyright law, which is much weaker fair use case then in Us, and he would likely lose a fair use court in EU.

[@JottoHearthStone]

@@lifeofryu7584 uhh, EU law is very strict on corporations and nonsense law suits, Toei would have been thrown out for lack of base evidence to prosecute a case, also they would have to pay the legal fees for both parties as well in Irish court. Toei's case was so bad that they straight up didn't try to prosecute, they avoided the legal path as much as possible. They failed to provide a since legal case against TNM at any point in this process, even using Japanese law which doesn't apply to TNM's videos outside of Japan anyway (which is why they are blocked in Japan now but nowhere else)

[@kindalemons]

Was so happy when I saw Marks video, it’s just a shame that if some of the biggest platforms didn’t speak out it’s likely nothing would have changed

[@dharrmanbestyoutuber]

Gt part one wasn't there

[@zedanime220]

It's sad to think that this has probably happened to some smaller content creators out there and there was nothing done to help them out because they just didn't have the reach that Mark does

[@iantaakalla8180]

It’s also sad to see that Mark got this only by complaining and Toei messing up their filing process. Had both not happened he would be like a small creator.

[@kjh-vq5rh]

There definitely were a few other smaller content creators that got attacked/copyright claimed and their channel removed before Mark’s. I’m so glad he persevered and had the support and luck to be protected as he is. Right now, there’s a smaller channel in dire need of a lot of help and support named Suede who does Pokemon reviews. ShoPro the Japanese corp that owns Pokémon is suing him internationally for court. Please spread the word.

[@SamTheGumMan117]

I'm really happy for Mark and his editors but they're still not out of the woods yet since Toei can still pull some bs but at least YT finally did something worthwhile for once

[@reedk2402]

There’s one huge reason KZbin will never come down on company’s. They buy ads. If KZbin punished Toei for abuse they risk losing a potential ad buy and that’s where a lot (if not the majority) of their money comes from. But even a small victory is good. Maybe one day things will turn around.

[@lulu4882]

more importantly, they'd run the risk of a lawsuit. and it's much cheaper to just ban the person getting targeted, even if they were in the right.

[@Zalied]

youtubes problem is at any moment the whole site could get nuked because of copywrite law issues. now its such a big site that maybe the government would have enough higher employees that use it to care about change but as it stands youtube can basically get fucked whenever. the solution is well we allow takedowns so we are not ourselfs doing the infringing. this is a big thing with the twitch react meta right now because twitches solution is to pretend they dont know so how could they have done anything. but soon they will have to do more and more until its similar to youtube. its not just losing ads which is important its also about the billions in copywrite lawsuits that youtube sits in the grayest of areas for. no one not youtube nor the companies want to find out whose side will win because no result is good in the end so we play this little dance of take downs

[@blazekings]

I agree that youtube likely won't crack down on companies that make these claims due to ad revenue but I personally don't recall seeing any ads for toei animation animes on KZbin. The closest thing I see are crunchy roll ads which I guess includes toei content

[@revolvingworld2676]

@@blazekings I may be mistaken but I can recall a couple of times there are ads that appear everytime a new DBZ movie happens. Especially ones that appear in theaters.

[@goudawgs]

My whole issue with this comes back to the ability to block content in certain countries. I can understand, even if I don't agree with, why KZbin doesn't want to give that ability to everyone. Why though do they not allow those that have a partner manager, or some other official kind of contract with KZbin to access this system????

[@Kylekashi]

Yeah I completely agree with your verdict and also commented it on Mark's video. Toei should get punished for WILLINGLY breaking the rules and abusing the system like that! A ban from using the content ID system sounds like a good punishment tbh.

[@8baller10]

That’s so sad content creators have to constantly worry about being targeted and having their livelihoods taken away at the snap of a finger. KZbin needs to get it’s shit together. Their number 1 priority should be the creators who are making them money. Without content creators youtube would be nothing. I have things improve. Maybe if enough content creators come together you can organize some sort of union? I’ll continue to support this channel as well as your other two channels for as long as your around my friend.

[@robinsonsonic]

Very happy for Mark and content creators alike. This is a massive win against an archaic dinosaur that clearly doesn't see the huge profitability in creators like him, Liam, and TeamFourStar, which is basically free viral marketing for their most famous shows. On the one hand, I get trying to protect their product from pirates, but to try and completely annihilate a channel like Mark's and TFS, even with voice actors like Sean Schemmel coming to Toei's defense, doesn't really make much sense to me, when they maintained massive popularity during DB's down years thanks to creators like them and so many others spreading the word, diving deep into the story and on and on. Simply baffling. This is a massive win for all content creators. Like Toei was cut in half with its own attack. Can't think of where I've seen that, though. (I totally stole that joke from Plague of Gripes).

[@KrazyStylez09]

i dont think theyre the reason why they maintained massive popularity but db itself did that.

[@douglaslangley9251]

@@KrazyStylez09 nah, fan communities are a large reason why there is so much buzz in the west surrounding a property when it gets continuations/reboots/etc after long downtime.

[@KrazyStylez09]

@@douglaslangley9251 nah dragon ball also had video games and spin offs in its off years not just fan made things and obviously u dont have fan communities without the show they watch soooo its all because of the show itself. not the fans, the show has that fan base because of the show and the support

[@Xeno574]

@@KrazyStylez09 Dragon Ball never made a modern return until 2008 bro..the games could've only done so much, considering how the games were just constant retelling of the same old Dragon Ball Z Story. So the fanbase was making fan animations and everything which helped keep the fanbase alive long enough for the "Dragon Ball Renaissance" as people call it.

[@N1r0ak]

Even if something happened to these or your other channels, I would listen to some sort of podcast or otherwise with you on it because you're just so damn entertaining to listen to

[@launchpadmcquack2386]

Good for Mark. I can't imagine the stress he's been under and the residual stress this leaves him with.

[@jesusdiaz7408]

So I’ve been watching Grand Line Review for years but why in the hell am I just not seeing this channel. That being said I love this type of commenting and podcast channel!

[@Entei9000]

It's relatively new. It's only existed for a little over a month

[@dontmisunderstand6041]

I called Toei criminals when this situation first came up, and now there's no possible argument to the contrary.

[@sandwichmonster7067]

Am pirating all the Toei shows I watch because of this

[@jasmithyantro9680]

@@sandwichmonster7067 Let's be honest. You were already pirating all their work even before this situation happened.

[@sandwichmonster7067]

@@jasmithyantro9680 Well now I have good justification to :P

[@marocat4749]

@@sandwichmonster7067 Arr, luffy would aprove

[@CryoJnik]

@@sandwichmonster7067 And this is the ultimate reason why I roll my eyes at people who advocate piracy as activism. Lying through their teeth

[@ZBATABLESANIME]

This is a big W for KZbinrs. So happy for Mark. This situation made us adjust our edits style.

[@tapa212121]

It's funny how a company where half of its animes are about freedom and the search for that freedom tends to deprive others of their freedom

[@747Jackpot]

"Fred-sama, have you decided on another voice to extinguish?"

[@SolarisPhoenix42069]

"Mark is now blocked from Japan" meanwhile their employees are using VPNs

[@kevin5698]

I find it ironic that Toei striked Marks channel out of greed, and Mark won the fight because Toei was greedy

[@MatheusNiisama]

Imagine calling somoene a colonizer for wanting to make revenue from reviewing Japanese media, Japan, a country that historically has almost exclusevely taken on the colonizer role.

[@PNadav183]

04:00 - I am really against letting big companies off the hook in this manner, we should always assume that they know exactly what they are doing, and that every move they make is intentional (including the inconsistency that mark mentions in regards to which videos got taken down). Toei is a huge company (at least when compared to TNM), they have legal teams and business teams and they have all the resources to consider their moves before making them. We could have made that argument at the very beginning, but at this point, they have been in contact with YT about this for a while without backing down. We can say their reasoning is flawed and that it's not a very good move (even business wise), but to say they did not know what unleashing that many copyrights claims on a youtuber might do to that youtuber is, in my opinion, letting them off the hook too easily. I get that it's their IP, and I get that in terms of Japanese copyright laws they are in the right, but FUCK TOEI. I will not watch their productions anymore. I'll just read the manga, but as long as I can help it I will not give them any money.

[@jaden197]

I agree but you and me both know we not staying away from one piece once film red comes out Aswell as roof piece starts

[@marocat4749]

Its a win, but i fully agree neither mark or those involved should rest but stay vigilant.

[@yacoubalshami]

you could just pirate shit from toei and watch anime on certain websites

[@paulpaul8221]

Whatever you do in the future, don't ever let Toei Animation become a sponsor for your channel.

[@amoh2513]

Do they even try to become sponsors on KZbin? They probably give as less of a shit about KZbin sponsorships as they give about KZbinrs.

[@SamVimes27]

@@amoh2513 they did sponsor Mark before. That's why it was so baffling that they tried to delete his channel.

[@lssjgaming1599]

@@amoh2513 Mark was sponsored by the American branch of the company once

[@amoh2513]

@@lssjgaming1599 Yea, I didn't take that into account. I should've specified that about the Japanese branch.

[@marocat4749]

Its weird stephanie sterling did in a lawsuit lock 2 nintendo branches involved that claimed, maybe different banches?!

[@pinplays968]

TOEI should 100% be held accountable for this. There should be a way to sue

[@soaringstars314]

Toei pulls a uno reverse card as our legal system does not apply at Japan

[@jaden197]

Won’t toei losing money bc of this law suit hinder the production quality of the shows they produce im all for mark and his redemption but not at the cost of just going back to thriller bark animation for future episodes and or movies

[@pinplays968]

@@jaden197 Worth it tbh. It’s not like their production quality is amazing to begin with. It’s good. But nowhere near the best. I would call it, just ok. They need to be held accountable for what they put this ONE single guy through. They need to have something done that will make them think twice before trying to bully someone of the internet who help increase viewership for the very thing they’re taking him down for.

[@lifeofryu7584]

Mark would likely lose in court, what would he sue them for? using the system provide by youtube?

[@pinplays968]

@@lifeofryu7584 Listen , The term "Sue" was used loosely by me, regarding to something needing to be done. Be it suing, or something else. Something needs to be done to show these big corps they can't bully, and ruin lives at the drop of a hat. Because if this was anyone smaller than Mark. They woulda been done on KZbin and had their life ruined.

[@al1395-y3d]

There is recourse for creators against companies who abuse this, but it requires lawyers and the vast majority of content creators can't afford the fight specially if youtube is their main source of income.

[@desertsandfly2277]

Toei: "We want this man and his channel gone!" YT: "Okay why? I need proof." Toei: "Proof? What proof? He is stealing our content!" YT: "But... he's just reviewing and promoting your content." Toei: "I don't care! I want him gone NOW!" YT: "Okay! Okay! Just give me some time. I'll take care of it." *A few days later...* YT: "Here you go. He's gone now." Toei: "Good riddance!" YT: (whispering) "As long as you don't use any VPN." Toei: "What?" YT: "What?"

[@gimalreed1158]

Peasants scrape. First they came for the blank, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a blank. Your words are appreciated Liam.

[@MerchHunterRicky]

6:20 not to mention the fact that talking about one piece on youtube is not against any laws and having pictures of the anime is 0 reason for toei to be acting like dictators

[@SUTTYEA]

So if Toei’s actions went as planned. Marks entire KZbin career would’ve been destroyed 50 times over

[@zedanime220]

It's actually daunting and sad to think that this has probably happened to some smaller channels out there and there was nothing done to help them out because they just didn't have the reach that Mark does....this does count as a W though

[@marocat4749]

Not even mark, the only times yt acts is if bigger channel shout them our, same with stolen channels. YT only acts, if someone makes noise. Which in marks case, was fairly big. They care how much others shout out. Not creators but when they are called out big enough.

[@laboon344]

@@marocat4749 out*

[@iantaakalla8180]

Team Four Star was very big at the time they quit DBZA, and eventually parodies in general. It didn’t save them. No, Mark got lucky. Toei messed up their filing a claim.

[@tomharry6619]

Mark didn't win. He just makes it sound like he's victorious. Obvs toei are gonna pursue this.

[@sandwichmonster7067]

Seems rather petty of them to pursue some guy in the west

[@nanaya7e433]

How are they going to pursue this? At best they can try to keep claimig and striking his videos, but other than that, their hands are tied. They have no leg to stand on, legally speaking so suing him would fail and only cost them money.

[@anzar007]

Congratulations on 50k subs. Happy for you. Happy to be a part of your channel.

[@Dudeinaroomwastaken]

Happy to have you aboard! :D

[@askingparkway]

If you sell a product in another country, that does not mean you get to impose your laws on those that consume your content in a different country. Their copy right is not an international law. Its a Japanese one.

[@sadcad8118]

The channel is growing fast, keep it up!

[@CorreiaJDA]

So basically, Toei wanted to remove Mark from youtube 50 times, right?

[@Dudeinaroomwastaken]

Mathematically, yes.

[@angumakifor2355]

What is mark yt channel

[@stewardofconsciousness9781]

@@angumakifor2355 TotallyNotMark

[@mutantraze3681]

That whole laws in another country thing just screams reddit. Just because the age of consent is 14 in some random smaller country does NOT somehow make that okay in the US. Its cp

[@unclephillymya]

Toei acting like the world government in One Piece

[@woodsy.2977]

I try not to let experiences like this effect my enjoyment of toeis work, like one piece, dragonball etc. The animators are incredible hard workers but the higher ups need to sort their shit out.

[@Entei9000]

Yeah, I feel like that's the case with a lot of companies sadly. A lot of hard workers putting out great content that they genuinely care about, with the higher ups pulling all sorts of shady shit behind the scenes.

[@CryoJnik]

It's entirely possible to enjoy their work while calling out and speaking against the horrible stuff they do. For some though theres a point when supporting a company's work beyond their sins just isnt worth it. It's only when you actively ignore or try to downplay their schemes because of your love for a product that you become a mindless shill. Don't be a shill

[@lesuu]

I didn't even know that MCNs still existed, that's crazy. I have to say I absolutely adore this channel, you're a really smart and talented person and your videos are just amazing to watch. You have incredibly valuable insight on every topic you touch upon on this channel and it's just amazing. Thank you so much for the great content Liam

[@Thelastpagangod]

Honestly every youtube account should be able to decide where their content is able to be seen.

[@CraigUKgames]

Would it not be possible to say, get together with a few other One Piece youtubers and set up your own MCN together, without any of the BS that usually goes along with it. Vet channels who want to join to see if they are actually fair use, don't take money from members (unless its required, then do bare minimum) and just have it as a way to get video location feature to people who "need" it.

[@panthekirb7561]

Unionised One Piece content lets gooo

[@phonyalias7574]

Listening to the whole TotallyNotMark situation, makes me wonder what happened to TeamFourStar years ago, they had implied many times that the whole copyright system and Toei had a big hand in essentially ending their old content production (granted their new stuff is pretty good too) but I have to wonder how much this hurts everyone from the IP holders to the content producers like you that are free advertising for them. Since the Mark situation happened for example, your production has significantly changed in the use of still images and video. I've loved this channel by the way, in getting to explore some of the nonsense that goes into video production beyond just the video. But, why not create your own MCN to solve some of these issues?

[@Tkokat]

Toei employee: Tell me master, which light should be snuffed out from history next?

[@NoMercy745]

It seems like he (Liam) has completely forgotten about Poke-Mart.

[@Entei9000]

I believe he made a video explaining why he doesn't do anything with it anymore

[@taherakhanom4308]

Fred: this is not power of your creation

[@PhatDogStudios]

This happened to our channel a little over 2 years ago. Our channel was outright banned and we still have not recovered from it. We went from averaging 1-3k sub growth a month and 100k views a week. To 100+ sub growth a month if we're lucky and 15k views in a month again if we're lucky.

[@AnyMEmdq]

2:30 That's part of the standard procedure though, which is the right way to do it, credit where credit is due, but it was not something done in deference to Mark himself, or in lieu of toei issuing 150+ notices at the same time. Standard policy, as pointed by Mark himself. So they get the takedown notice, and they reply "Are you sure you want to permanently delete this creator?"

[@FredericoASousa]

Is it me or there is a weird background sound going around 2:38 ? It stops at 3:54 . Using headphones btw

[@generalyousif3640]

Not gonna lie, this brings a smile to my face

[@tensubde]

Just got the notification for this video. I was looking for it all day yesterday after Totaly Not Mark posted.

[@mojiolotu]

Thanks for the update and insight!

[@elijahpetty7638]

Why call the high rank KZbin administrator Fred? He's more like CPO 🤔

[@basicsyphilis8]

Dude in a room is pretty chill

[@flatulencetheunendingii5815]

Well I for one am actually happy that they went after Mark. I believe that next time they wont fail

[@DoodOverThere]

I asked if they could just region block Japan so I feel kinda vindicated. I'm glad for the content creator solidarity.

[@OneCritWunder]

Liam idk if you noticed but there's a slight noise in the background, like a strong electrical current of sorts. It's not too noticable i think but i thought i'd tell you. have a great day! :) Edit: It's only untill 3:52

[@alexmojarro7960]

Penguinz0 explained how toei gets down

[@MrKingmustafa]

It was three years that I experienced how terrifying toei can be. I was once an admin of the biggest german facebook page about anime. The name of the page was “Animenews” and had 160.000 likes. Toei claimed so many posts and videos we posted, that facebook deleted our page.

[@Pelipcahh]

You wanna learn how to get your IP pirated out of principal? Follow Toei's footsteps.

[@spritemon98]

Quick!! Someone call big news Morgan!!

[@ugoeze7360]

In the opal market, business is booming.

[@zedspoint4614]

I don't know Liam, Toei probably didn't even pay whoever had to manually make those claims. Could be some underpaid, overworked, miserable man doing unpaid overtime because why not.

[@lokithechef1411]

This makes me wonder what the process is to become a multi-channel network and what services they're intended to provide. Might be worth organizing one as a union of sorts if they can help protect KZbinrs.

[@ajperezmontes]

What baffles me is how these reaction channels dont get any heat from toei when they are reacting to full length episodes with a watermark on top of the media. Dont understand these copyright rules

[@n3ry404]

You’re looking mighty handsome Mr. Dude in a Room

[@derhund4827]

My name is Fred, it is good to know what power I hold

[@Lloyd00]

It's probably the closest thing to a W he's gonna get so I'm happy for him

[@will62710]

Lmfao I like how you end the videos hahaha doesn’t give anyone a chance to look for another video! Nice 👍🏼

[@Akametsuki]

Hi Liam! I would love to see you do a series of "which df or power would this musician/band/dj ( you get the idea ) have". It's a totally mundane request I know, but people ought to see some things out of their normal reach. If you like the idea, could I make the first request, please?

[@mushfiqurrahman2515]

i was waiting for u to talk about it. hope better things come, altho cant get any hopes up

[@NovaLance]

All I want to know is why he was targeted. Coz this seems like a vendetta

[@lifeofryu7584]

if anything they would have a Vendetta vs him now :)=

[@hodysensei3438]

susan's youtube era + toei = one piece world governement.

[@awildjustbunny3597]

After all the GrandLineReview video i’ve watch, if i close my eyes and listen to this,i can imagine a one piece chapter witouth a problem

[@rangerreview1780]

Restrict the ability to geo block to partners. That first defense fails. But it fails in general because anyone can report. And the Content ID system exists to find this stuff.

[@HeadbutKneecap]

I think you may be underestimating the power of the "noise". This is a situation that had never openly happened before. Though, some smaller channels may have had this happen to them in the past, i highly doubt they went to trouble of making a big enough fuss of it than Mark. If it's any consolation (and to me it is. even just for hopeful sake) it's brought an awareness to these issues not to the general audience of youtube, but to both KZbin and probably Toei themselves. The fact that FRED went in to rectify the situation meant a correction of an underlying problem of youtube, and through that probably learned some valuable lessons about copywrite take downs, and i definitely think Tonei is probably feeling the ill effects of their decisions. If anything, Liam, I'd say that this whole situation has probably put you and other youtubers alike in a safer position than you were before. If it didn't happen to Mark, it would have happened to one of you. As someone that had been following Marks Channel around this time (along with yourself and other content creators, particularly in the realm of one piece) Im pretty happy with the outcome

[@DrawciaGleam02]

I think it will likely take Japanese anime studios losing a LOT of profits overseas to finally realize this is not the way to go.....

[@jayd.doubledubs]

4:47 Sounds like something right out of the Void Century, how ironic. Toei do be executing a cleansing on KZbin

[@voidblank1114]

I am subscribed and also rang the bell.

[@AryaLynch]

Gotta love the reverse UNO card "saving" this whole fiasco.

[@TheLionkaizer]

Dude lyam in the room! Please Review hoshi no samidare! Is suposed to get anime this 2022... About 10-15 years ago... Damn you panty and stockin with garment! Great material! Hope this Channel blow up but in the good way not kaboooooom! Way.

[@neoncaster]

That hot coffee is a nice touch

[@isaac3252]

I tried starting a KZbin channel for fun once and the first two videos I uploaded both got copyright striked by some non existent company and I just quit

[@soaringstars314]

A happy ending for mark where the villain ends up playing the hero role to help defeat the true bad guy for once

[@scallionn-c4w]

There is a lot of smoke there

[@cjadams6706]

How do other KZbinrs react to this channel? Have people come out and asked you specifically not to do their channel? Would that make you want to do it more, like a specific forbidden fruit in a fictional pirate series?

[@tash5186]

Is it just me or there's a bit of smoke coming from the line of ights in the lower left section of the video?

[@Ticazoid95]

Good to know FЯED is still working with youtube after so many years.

[@2mellow35]

Mark's training arc really paid off. I've never seen a KZbinr with such a crazy high power level might even be Yonko level.

[@pkpyro2000]

The second I saw Mark’s video i was like I can’t wait to hear from a certain dude in a certain room . . . I guess Liam will have to do for now tho XD

[@deusanctus8060]

there is the legal precedent as they call it.Its used in cases that refer to a court decision that is considered as AUTHORITY for deciding subsequent cases involving identical or similar facts, or similar legal issues. Precedent is incorporated into the doctrine of stare decisis and requires courts to apply the law in the same manner to cases with the same facts.So maybe next time you can make a case since KZbin resolved kinda the matter and therefore is the authority.You must be stressed and worried i get that Liam so hang in there and if at any case something happens we are here for you mate❤🙂

[@andy19934]

Yes, but sadly this not legal in the eyes of the law. This is only regarding KZbins own rules. They can choose to forgo a previous choice because they feel like it. It would be nice if there was some actual legal repercussions, but nobody wants to be the person who sets actual, factual Legal Precedent and screw things up for the worse.

[@carloscontreras3633]

I want to hire a public investigator and find out who the person was that marked over 100 videos for copyright strike.

[@shyguypro9876]

"MCNs are mostly scams" *Machinma Respawn flashbacks*

[@isaiahwagner6075]

i’m not gonna lie Liam if toei tried to do this to you i would go to war for you. i can’t do much but you got my vote

[@CLYDESDALEDUBD]

There was smoke rising in the bottom left corner of the screen towards the beginning of the video... Was that a candle?

[@ShaggyDabbyDank]

You should get in contact with your youtube manager and request that your videos are region-blocked in Japan. Then Toei has no way to come after GrandLineReview or anything like that as the content isn't being broadcast in that country.

[@fizzle7421]

Man there was someone on Twitter absolutely shredding Mark because he "didn't know how KZbin copyright strikes work." I wonder where they are now lol.

[@rickastley3045]

I honestly hope that the situation has not made Toei angry. Toei was previously like a wasp, just being an ass to everyone, and one day they stung Totally not mark. Mark tried to defend himself, but ended up aggravating the wasp and now, it’s possible that the whole Wasp Nest is after him and any other creators that make similar content. Do you see the nightmare scenario yet?

[@raizen328]

Better to face it head on with some unity now. Than wait and let them pick off creators one by one🤷🏽‍♂️

[@reachtrev69]

Being a youtuber always seemed like a hard and thankless job to me. Even the one benifit of playing games for a living sucks when you think about it. Games are work now. You have to think about performance and play games people want you to play, no thanks. And thats not even mentioning the psychological problems im sure comes with it too.

[@sandwichmonster7067]

It's certainly a job to be done out of passion more than anything else

[@mugiwarated6319]

The problem is nothing in the legal framework of KZbin’s safe harbor status allows them to restrict a company from making claims, even if they have a history of bad behavior. The laws would have to change. As is usually the case, the way the laws are written favors the copyright holder over the individual.

[@annache250]

This man out here boiling a pot of water based on how much steam there is

[@bobthatoneguy8948]

Why does Liam make this story feel like a GLR video about shank’s potential in the series or something I thought this was dude in a room