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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 Fancy 2 Furious: Wine⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m unable to retrieve the link to his tweets at this time (mobile) but the author of the article has said that IH has not reached out to either him or mentalfloss.

  IH also did not communicate about him reuploading a new version. The author was told of this by the many people emailing him following Hbomb’s exposé.

  The author has not, to my knowledge, said anything about his following steps, but I assume they will have to at least decide on whether to issue another DMCA for the reupload.

  I do hope he, and they (mentalfloss) decide to pursue further legal action. IH’s actions are uconscionable, and a precedent has already been set with the taking down of the first video. The second video is by far not enough of a transformative work that it would shield him from the same thing happening again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 Fancy 2 Furious: Wine⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh for sure that James guy got absolutely bodied lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 Fancy 2 Furious: Wine⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey that’s so cool, I hope nobody steals your writing in the US or I don’t know, Bahrain, because good luck I guess! A hobby writer such as yourself should be better informed than this, but you won’t do it yourself and I’m done having to hold your hand while you thrash around whining about your favorite youtuber getting their due. (A youtuber btw with a pretty on the nose anti SJW/pro 4chan background, maybe reconsider on that account)

  Again, deeply misinformed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 Fancy 2 Furious: Wine⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I… just watch Hbomber’s video because you are either not understanding, or refusing to understand. I think it’s the latter, which would confirm my initial idea of you engaging in bad faith.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 Fancy 2 Furious: Wine⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The current reupload is still a poorly credited rewording of Riley’s article, and it still lifts the article wholesale in wording, structure, facts and research. Even the pacing is the same.

  IH didn’t come clean about the copyright infringement, choosing to instead dodge any questions regarding the matter. Now if this was just some spat between creators that we didn’t need to get into as an audience, that wouldn’t be as much of an issue. But the problem with copyright is, either you credit publicly and clearly, or you will be called out for it publicly. It is the same in academia, where a lot of this rigor stems from in the first place. I’m entirely sure the author could claim the current reupload. We won’t know if they have had contact before this version was reuploaded, but we can safely assume they didn’t have any contact whatsoever to greenlight his first upload.

  Addressing transgressions like this is also necessary, if not vital, to the YouTube and creator ecosystem that also has to keep itself in check. If you step out of line, you risk this very thing happening. And then it doesn’t matter if it is 2 days or six months or three years, or even older (as Hbomber also points out, there was some deeply racist stuff in IH’s uploads that have since been deleted).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 Fancy 2 Furious: Wine⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … at the time the company that held the IP dmca’d the video, and it takes a while to make a 4 hour video? What is your argument here really?

  And if copyright infringement like this doesn’t concern you, that’s fine it doesn’t have to. But there are certain rules that content creators are deemed to follow, lest they run into this exact criticism. You can scoff and scowl at that fact, but that won’t make that simple reality disappear.

  And for what it’s worth, lifting the entire article near verbatim in a video you then make money off of without so much as crediting it is, at best, shitty, and at worst a crime. Do with that what you will, but it certainly isn’t a fly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 Fancy 2 Furious: Wine⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  See my comment below

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 Fancy 2 Furious: Wine⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hbomberguy posted a video going into sime egregious examples of plagiarism. In it, he shows how Internet Historian plagiarized an article for his Man in Cave video, sometimes literally word for word for long sections of the video, occasionally only changing words or just scrambling sentences. Neither the original author of the article, nor the medium were credited for their work. This is why Man in Cave suddenly disappeared, then went unlisted for a while, before returning but in a much worse state than before. It is a blatant form of plagiarism that verges on outright copyright infringement.

  I don’t blame you for not being on the up and up on this whole thing, Hbomber’s video just dropped today and it’s 4 hours long. This is me giving the context that the other guy didn’t give.

  I do hope IH addresses it.