Andrew Tsai Copyright Striked by Autodesk

Cash · January 20

Seemingly the issue is that he linked to the official AutoCAD website in the description of his tutorial on installing the software legally on MacOS. What the actual heck?

PDifolco · January 20

10 minutes ago, Cash said:

Seemingly the issue is that he linked to the official AutoCAD website in the description of his tutorial on installing the software legally on MacOS. What the actual heck?

Companies are becoming crazy and dumb af, how can they claim a copyright for a link to their website, that's by definition a public thing ??

And that's free advertising for them...

Kisai · January 20

3 hours ago, PDifolco said:

Companies are becoming crazy and dumb af, how can they claim a copyright for a link to their website, that's by definition a public thing ??

And that's free advertising for them...

Probably a shotgun copyright strike. eg they searched for "autocad download" and paid some outsourcer in india 5 cents for every strike sent.

In all seriousness, mistakes happen, and they often happen because the person actually doing the takedowns is time crunched to deal with 1000's of reports. Legally they have to review all of them, but no lawyer is ever going to sit there and watch your video. They will wait till you push back with a counter notice, because then they can strike the video easily.

Most people doing "bad" and know they are doing bad things on youtube, get enough reports from third parties that their accounts vanish pretty quickly. You're going to get caught in shotgunning if you use language that can be easily read as encouraging piracy.

Like Apple, for years had entire copies of OSX on their website for their M68K/PPC systems, and people would just yoink those and use them to run Mac Emulators. Microsoft does the same, HOWEVER, until Windows 10, this was typically something you need an account on MSDN to access. Adobe meanwhile you've always been able to download the "trial version" of all their products going back since to at least CS1. And if you want to update your CS3/CS4 products you have to set your clocks back to like 2007 or something because otherwise the SSL handshake with the server fails.

Anyways, my point here is that telling people how to download software from the developers website shouldn't cause a strike if you've linked to the page, and not the file itself.