Now isn't that interesting......there is neither an adress nor a prompt asking for allowing the use of scripts/cookies on their site...now that would be violating the DSVGO/GDPR.....interesting.
Now they aren't a EU member state, which would make the latter part illegal but the question is, what does the moldavian law say about that? And if Moldavia trades with the EU they need to accept certain parts of the rules......
I know that both in Germany and the EU it is illegal to have a site, or in fact even pulish a Leaflet without an Impressum/Imprint. Don't know about Moldavia, but given my experience in certain eastern European Countries (Hungary and Serbia, the latter before EU membership) Corruption and bypassing the law are rife there.
@Bobby Pennington fully agree on Cancel Culture, we need to keep it's proponents out of our communities. Sadly a bit of gatekeeping is both necessary and healthy, to keep out those that would destroy our communities for their own gain.
Hopefully something is able to be done about "Team". This "team" is the reason why the original F1 Classics site closed its doors. This team has been doing this for years and they have not been able to be shut down and people still buy their content. A few modders have quite modding as their content was taken from rF1, F1C etc converted to AC then the "team" claims it as their own, and strikes down the hard work of the original modders.
The CART 1995 mod is 100% the iDT rF1 mod. We did get it taken down for a bit, but then they put it back up. The "team" is from a country that it is difficult to file a cease and desist. Their Endurance mods is 100% Forza (Lola-Mazda LMP2) and Enduracers rF1-rF2 mod.
As much as I love the modding community in games, it is situations like this is why developers are moving away from removing modding from their games. And I 100% don't blame them from it.
Partially, in part certain devs, like those owned by EA, like Dice moved away from it to avoid the competition. Remember up to BF 2142 modding was great and it was the thing that made 1942, Vietnam and Battlefield 2 really popular. But the thing is, if a modding team makes a better "addon" for your game than your own team, you both look foolish and loose a lot of money. As why would anyone something for money that is worse than the free offer.
How those chaps at SimDream are able to take down simracing forums, like f1classics for example, or legitimate youtube channels is beyond me. But it speaks for both wordpress and youtube more clearly than pictures.
Well the problem is that Yotube doesn't care, a lot of the mechanisms hurting us now were implemented to improve the way Big Tech, including Alphabet/Google can influence the generation of public opnion and therefore policy.
They made the flagging of content easier and automated the process to strike down those they see as their political opponents or those having any opinion that runs counter their official narrative.
What we see here is what Alphabet/Google regard as acceptable collateral damage for the power they gain. One of the tools favoured by the cancel culture that
@Bobby Pennington mentioned is exactly this, this false copyright striking to destroy people's incomes.
Enforcement of any policy in this regard has been exceedingly lopsided, whoever is on the side that Alphabet/Google sees as theirs, is fine..........well as long as Alphabet/Google thinks they are useful, if not, or if you have an opinion running coutner their narrative........well, you get hit with the biggest hammer they got, and you're gone.
There have also been suspicious cases of channels locked due to alleged hacking, see Arch (used to be Arch Warhammer)'s Channel being locked out a few months ago.
Similar things happened to the creator of the Astartes Fan Movie, In December 2019 there was a mass purge of channels including archival and documentary channels.
Monetization has been extremely limited and many channels favouring topics that the Youtube Leadership and Admins does not like have been completely demonetized, not just political, but anything covering military topics, conflicts studies, history, independent news, crypto mining, independent tech and so on and so forth......
The algorythm has been changed so that it favours "authoritative sources" which in clear means the mainstream media or corporate channels.
Don't look to youtube for help, they only act once it's sufficiently bad for optics and only then.
Susan Wojcicki has sacrificed Youtube's profitability over the last years to push certain narratives, and I don't think it's going to be better. Youtube is past it's prime, with a lot of creators starting or have already built up presences on other platforms.
Is this a reason for legal action? lol i guess not, but really wish it would...
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I don't think so, but I think the contract would be void, because there is no contracting party. They have to disclose who they are for the contract to be valid. I mean otherwise they could be for example underage.....a contract needs to be betwen two legal persons (which in the case of a person is a natural person).
The problem with this is that this is essentially a contract with nobody.
Not a lawyer though....just know a bit of german contract law....sooo pinch of salt.