Video game developer Bungie Inc. won its lawsuit against YouTuber Nicholas Minor who created fake email accounts to send fraudulent copyright takedown notices to the video sharing platform over its popular first-person shooter game, Destiny 2.
US District Judge Marsha Pechman granted Bungie’s motion for summary judgment on Wednesday, finding the “undisputed record” shows that Minor violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by posing as a Bungie employee and requesting YouTube to takedown Bungie’s own videos. “Minor admits that he had no authority to issue the notices, that he intentionally and knowingly issued the notices, and that he ‘gravely messed ...
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