The AVGN Youtube Account has been Terminated

In an odd turn of events, James Rolfe's (A.K.A The Angry Videogame Nerd) Youtube Account has been found terminated today. All that remains of the page is a looming message from youtube: "This account has been terminated due to repeated or severe violations of our Terms of Service." and an appropriately placed "D:" logo

[waltyftm]

Stupid Copyright issues, cinemassacre.com will fulfill your AVGN needs.

[Information Minister]

In the immortal words of James Rolfe:

"What were they thinking?!"

[yeahokchief]

youtube's loss.

i will still check out this guys video's wherever he puts them.

[SilentNegotiator]

Everyone that supports these new potential laws for blocking game content from being used in internet videos needs to be prepared for this; the death of fair use and power of corporations to prosecute without court.

Youtube is just "progressive" that way, doing it that way now in fear of being sued.

[Whitefox789]

Me and thousands of other users have already had problems with Sega recently.

In my case I posted a demo playthrough of Ryu Ga Gotoku 5 (known in the west as Yakuza 5).

[admiralvic]

Yup.

While my channel is generally left alone by companies, I got a copyright notice on the "First 20 minutes" of E.X. Troopers and had my WHOLE VIDEOS sound muted for having a May'n song (games opening). Talk about lame!

[matrixman92]

it should all be returned soon hopefully. The way I see it AVGN has been a HUGE part of internet/video game history, this will not go unnoticed. cinemassacre.com is always there though

[Monkeycan8]

I tried to watch his videos on cinemassacre.com but the AVGN page wont load for me :(

[cannon8800]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! !!

[cannon8800]

"He'd rather have, a buffalo, take a diarrhea dump in his ear..." best intro song ever!

[J86blum]

-Throws a Rolling Rock- ASSS!

[LAWSON72]

Man, avgn is awesome. Cant wait for the movie

[soraalam1]

Oh man, and yesterday I just saw him in my subscription feed upload a video.

[tigertron]

Stupid Youtube.

[cpayne93]

Hope this gets resolved soon. I love avgn.

[DragonKnight]

WTF? I bet it was Sega. They went after all kinds of youtubers for Shining Force videos, who's to say that they wouldn't go after AVGN for any of their old school games. Youtube has seriously gone down the drain thanks to Google.

[Bimkoblerutso]

Don't know why you're getting disagrees. It probably WAS Sega, given their long running vendetta against Shining Force fans (we're talking like, George Lucas levels of hate for the fans), and YouTube has become undeniably infamous for the copyright trolling since Google took over.

Basically big companies like Sega are trolling and youtube encourages the behavior.

[hazelamy]

another victim of youtube's take down first, check the facts never, policy.

they should take down the accounts of companies that makes these false copyright claims.

[AllroundGamer]

no biggie, i have all his episodes downloaded on my HDD :P (and there is also the cinemassacre site :) ) but this is also why i download all of my fav youtube videos to HDD.

[kingPoS]

Which method did you use, browser add-ons or ps3youtube?

[Dark_Overlord]

keepvid.com works well to DL youtube vids :)

[AllroundGamer]

browser add-ons

[Conzul]

when using keepvid, remember to add "&fmt=22" to the end of the video string to download in 720p, and "&fmt=32" to download in 1080p quality.

[jeenyus]

It could be him trolling in some way.

[Tzunoy]

YT kiss the nerd Ass. :)

[Smashbro29]

Kind of a pain in the ass for him but I'm sure he has it all backed up and ready for upload elsewhere.

[phatfreddy1978]

wow that sucks I realy liked his vids had me laughing hope he can reload somewhere else.

[Mathew9R]

Who?

Yeah, Copyright is a bitch, But it's there for a reason...

But when it's to do with WMG... THEN THEY CAN GO STICK IT!

[PopRocks359]

I assume you're joking? It's difficult to believe that someone on a video game news website has never heard of the Angry Video Game Nerd, whether or not they like them.

[Mathew9R]

Sadly I'm not joking, I've not used youtube for watching videos for a while now, I mostly only post and not watch.

[PopRocks359]

That's a shame. Check him out if you ever can. It's like having a very interesting and funny history lesson on older video games.

[animegamingnerd]

youtube you shut someone great like the avgn down and yet keep crap like fred, raywilliamjohns, pewdiepie. also making the new horrible layout i really hate youtube most of the time

[ALLWRONG]

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