Vox Media targets YouTuber that parodied The Verge's terrible PC build video

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Facepalm: Highlights from the ill-fated tutorial include installing the RAM in the wrong slots, using thermal paste and a pre-applied thermal pad, leaving a screw off the CPU cooler, calling zip ties tweezers and demonstrating terrible cable management. And that's just scratching the surface.

The Verge, one of the larger technology news sites on the Internet, published a video last September detailing how to build a $2,000 custom gaming PC. While the production value was decent, the overall feel of the tutorial was cringe-worthy and much of the information presented was flat out wrong or misleading.

Predictably, it went viral and the Internet jumped all over it. As Wccftech recounts, memes quickly sprang to life and several YouTubers criticized the clip. This prompted parent company Vox Media to delete the video and now, they're apparently going after some of the YouTubers.


Kyle from Bitwit recently shared on Twitter that Vox Media filed a copyright complaint against his parody of The Verge's video, titled, "Lyle reacts to The Verge's PC build video." According to the accompanying screenshot, YouTube also levied a copyright strike against his channel.

Kyle issues a warning to fellow YouTubers that similar sanctions may be heading their way.

As Wccftech correctly alludes to, Vox Media's best course of action would have been to simply leave well enough alone. They already deleted the video and it's been five months; lots of people had no doubt forgotten about the fiasco. Now, by picking fights with a YouTuber and requesting an old video be deleted, they're essentially enacting the Streisand effect.

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I learned a lot about building computers from that video, don't knock it

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The Verge does advertisement. If you expect journalism, that's definitely the wrong site. Try to criticize them and your post will get deleted (with you being banned).

Thanks to the expert for pointing out the mistakes. I had to laugh most at the knife-driver and the cooling paste. That was flat out hilarious!
 
They can't go after Lyle. He's awesome.
Every PC channel tore into that video and rightly so. It was complete garbage. But very entertaining garbage for anyone who knows anything about building a PC. It's well worth a watch if you can find it.
 
The video was a face/palm. And yes he was right to point out the tremendous amounts of failure in it. For Vox to get it's panties in a wad isn't surprising in the least. What do you expect from a mediocre, liberal flag bearer media company. Their motto is: "If we don't like what you say, you are wrong, and we will take legal action."
 
That verge video should have been titled "Apple store genius tries to build a pc". Seriously though, that vid could have cost some poor system building noob some valuable hardware and put them off building for life.
seriously, I am glad the original video was taken down. Someone might have actually followed that guys advice and caught their house on fire from putting the PSU in without any exhaust.
 
Short out the PSU by installing it the wrong way round.... lol
Unconnected anti static band.... lol (saying that I've built my own PCs for over 20 years and never worn one, and never damaged components, that I know of :p Just always earth myself before working on the innards of a machine)
Yeah, it looks like a pretty bad PC building guide.
 
Jay only see's one piece of the crime puzzle (DMCA) and it's not just a Youtube problem


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You cannot fix your own computer if the Company making the O.S. prevents you from doing so by using Closed Source even though the Company in question refuses to fix your computer, keeping you on the never ending treadmill to financial ruin with constant.........downgrades? (please don't call them upgrades)

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On a related note, does anyone in YouTube have a functioning brain? VoxMedia go to YT complaining of copyright violation - YT takes the video down. Youtubers go to YT to contest the strike - YT restores the video. Are the folks at YouTube capable of making an informed decision on their own or do they just sit around waiting for people to tell them what to do?
 
On a related note, does anyone in YouTube have a functioning brain? VoxMedia go to YT complaining of copyright violation - YT takes the video down. Youtubers go to YT to contest the strike - YT restores the video. Are the folks at YouTube capable of making an informed decision on their own or do they just sit around waiting for people to tell them what to do?
This is the way of making money - without employing "too many" people. Most of that is (semi-)automated. Hence, they don't even bother about right or wrong. The only thing that's bothering them is: "How much will this cost us?" How much will this cost, if the claim is right and we get sued vs. how much does it cost us to block that? ;-)
 
On a related note, does anyone in YouTube have a functioning brain? VoxMedia go to YT complaining of copyright violation - YT takes the video down. Youtubers go to YT to contest the strike - YT restores the video. Are the folks at YouTube capable of making an informed decision on their own or do they just sit around waiting for people to tell them what to do?
The videos were restored because Vox retracted their copyright claim at the request of The Verge's EIC, not because YouTubers challenged them.

More info here: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/15/18226105/a-note-about-youtube-copyright-strikes-from-vox-media
 
The video was a face/palm. And yes he was right to point out the tremendous amounts of failure in it. For Vox to get it's panties in a wad isn't surprising in the least. What do you expect from a mediocre, liberal flag bearer media company. Their motto is: "If we don't like what you say, you are wrong, and we will take legal action."
Confirmation that that "I'll sue you" threat knows no political boundaries.
 
What do you expect from a mediocre, liberal flag bearer media company.

How does "liberal" relate to tech competence? Why would you throw in a totally off-topic jibe like this? The liberalism you so glibly despise has brought humanity from the medieval period to modern times - except where sidetracked by champion anti-liberals like Hitler and Stalin. If you can't be bothered to know anything about history, at least beware in what company such simple-minded remarks place you.
 
What do you expect from a mediocre, liberal flag bearer media company.

How does "liberal" relate to tech competence? Why would you throw in a totally off-topic jibe like this? The liberalism you so glibly despise has brought humanity from the medieval period to modern times - except where sidetracked by champion anti-liberals like Hitler and Stalin. If you can't be bothered to know anything about history, at least beware in what company such simple-minded remarks place you.
These people don't dislike The Verge because of the PC build video, or any other actual tech-related content they've produced. They hate them because they are a progressive voice that strongly criticizes toxic forces in the tech and gaming community. Missteps like the PC build video are seized upon because it gives them a tangible way to pretend they dislike The Verge because of their technical incompetence, when of course they actually dislike The Verge because The Verge tells them not to be shitty people.
 
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