Drive Version - The Expanse Season 2 Episode 8 Part 2 Review and Reaction (Early Access)!
And here is part 2! Amazingly, drive uploaded very quickly tonight! At least one thing is going right with this process this evening! haha. Thanks again everyone and sorry for the inconvenience of having to access this via drive rather than YouTube. Hopefully, the copyright issue with this scammer company will be resolved soon.
All the best,
Molly
The Expanse Season 2 Episode 8 Part 2 Review and Reaction!.avi (Google Drive)
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It seems that Lasso group has been at it for a while. It also seems that youtube is not responding or doing squat. Maybe time to move to a new venue like Vimeo? Here's someone else's experience w/ Lasso Group <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4BpAT-8pyE" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4BpAT-8pyE</a>
I'm starting to wonder if the people you're dealing with are not actually Lasso Entertainment, but a group of scammers pretending to be Lasso Entertainment. The real Lasso Group appears to be a legit company; they were purchased by a Dutch concern called Fintage House in late 2017 from the British company Billion Dollar Boy. They're a rights management company, helping entertainment companies manage and collect money for their works worldwide (though, I get the impression, mostly in Europe). Their website lists addresses in Leiden, Netherlands (same address as their now parent company) and London (probably the address of their previous owner). That video where the guy tracks down their supposed locations in New York and Los Angeles and declares them to be empty buildings sounds like maybe he was looking at a duplicate website somebody set up to try to make it look like they're a US company. Not that this matters a whole lot, but it does suggest why people are not responding -- I think these threats are coming not from Lasso, but from someone using their name to try to scam people. It might be interesting to contact Fintage House (their executive staff are listed on their website) to see if they're aware of this. If it really is a case of someone impersonating their division, they might be very interested in putting an end to it. Just a thought...
It appears another group recently was sending messages demanding money to remove strikes: <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evevdk/scammer-used-youtube-copyright-system-to-ransom-creators" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evevdk/scammer-used-youtube-copyright-system-to-ransom-creators</a> Apparently the two channels that were taken down were only able to bring YouTube's attention to it by tweeting at youtube in public
This is almost certainly what they're doing. Based on google searches, they claim to be a "social media and copyright protection" organization and you can "hire them" to "protect" yourself from copyright claims. They probably stalk channels, copyright claim them repeatedly and then send some message stating they'll "protect" them from future action if they get paid. Thank you for the tip about tweeting. I've just tweeted at YouTube and will continue to do so if this isn't fixed!
Its a scam company and not NBC? How does this benefit them? Do they try to get rewards from NBC or something for hunting things down?
Well, the first time, on my Miller/Julie video, they only claimed it, rather than blocking it. Basically, they tried to take any potential revenue for themselves. This time around, they've blocked my video. Probably as part of a potential shakedown scam, along the lines of what Dan just posted about below.