rawb

I think of it like uploaded episodes of a discontinued TV show online, it was available publicly on TV at one point but the people who made it still have ownership of it

well yeah

but people running a TV show have the stuff ready to basically be able to execute on their rights

which rob doesn't

again i'm no expert but common sense dictates he'd likely struggle to put forward a case to its full extent

That's true, I guess it's unlikely he'd do much, but I think if he really wanted to he could have the site taken down

spooky might have more of a concrete idea

actually he probably doesn't

he probably just thinks he can win against the enforcement rather than the legal proceedings

Rob is broke

He'd be suing in a different country

this kind of lawsuit would take like 10k minimum

Rob would also have to provr damages to get payed

(that is the actual reason spooky is fine, besides the fact that rob probably wouldn't even want to tbh)

so yeah for someone who actively tried to abandon his old content for a while now, that wouldn't be worth it

He himself took the videos down

So its not like the site being up drained hus cash

also spooky probably has more resources than rob does atm

and he will have the best legal team in the world after phijkchu quest sells 5 million copies

How this plays out is Rob emails Spooky a Cease and Desist, then spooky either ignores it, or tells Rob to have his lawyer contact him

I meant once he started making peoplepay for his old videos, he could have a case that he was losing money with the same videos being up for free somewhere else

it ends there either way

okay hear me out though

what if spooky gave rob the money to sue

it's also not like spooky is monetizing rob's content, other than the chinese crypto mining programs he puts on everyone who watch from the site

imagine what a power move

Archival is one of the fair use exceptions

Rob took everything down

also the lawsuit would make even more fre conentet

no no no no no

we need to have rob sue spooky then hype it up for no reason

to generate buzz for the games

If anything, Rob would have a better case against zyton since its at least competing on the same platform

also, rob suing spooky would be content>people

he can't do that

i think he can actually just copyright strike zyton using youtube's systme

Yes

god the rob sues spooky and takes ownership of the phijkchu stream house arc is going to be pog

I can't wait

and their contents

oh no

not xbrox too

xbrox becomes rob's property

Honestly, the impact spooky's site will have on the money Rob makes will probably be negligable

The people who would pay Rob 5 dollars a month to see his old videos are mostly retards

yeah he has to make money first

well he can probably get a few people who might usually go to the comments

a lot of his old fans might be in the culture where they already pay for all kinds of patreons/podcast/etc things

that's if they join up before he responds to their comment

I think he turns comments off

when he does this

i think rawb.art kinda helps rob out though

it sorta absolves him of any wrongdoing for making his stuff paid

since it's not like he's actually paywalling anything

nah he would have done that already since he did it for the one urealms live video i uploaded

the youtube bot has to detect matching content from another users youtube videos i think

This is the simple truth. Lawyers cost money. Even if Rob had a decent case, he'd need Spooky's details to sue him directly. I don't know how sending a C&D to a Peertube site would work since it's an open-source decentralized platform.

And then he'd need money to hire a lawyer, cuz no lawyer will do this pro bono.

There are ways to get spooky's info, courts can demand that the company he bought the domain from disclose his info for example I think

but all of it takes lawyers

Yeah, I should've led with "he'd need lawyers to do all this" rather than put it as the second statement.

And if he got Spooky's deets via doxing or something, that would most likely be considered inadmissible in court, even ina civil case.

Well, depending on if Spooky put it out in the open or if it was obtained malignantly or deceptively.

Even then, if Rob had access to all this, best case scenario, he gets the site shut down. He'd receive very little - if anything - in compensatory damages.

it is literally not worth doing

both time and the fact that all it will do is cause both Rob and Spooky to be left with less money

Oh I agree 100%

But it might be funny if it happens, Spooky shows up in court looking like Johnny Depp, Rob shows up in the Monica wig dressed like Amber Heard

froggy depp

Id also win

In the hypothetical reality he did care enough

If he asked me to take them down, I'd at least hear him out

Same if he wanted the domain

Spooky is a nice guy like that.

I’m curious because I’m not familiar with law what makes you so sure you’d win spooky

I'll skip over the logistical hurdles, which would be impossible in their own right to overcome

He has no ownership or copyright over anything he's uploaded, none whatsoever

The Escapist owns the original Urealms cartoon, so they could request that I take them down

but even that would be murky, since they do not protect that IP in any way