YouTube gave me a strike for showing how to find an IP address

crua9
7 years ago

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Long story short, I’ve been fighting a strike for a while now. YouTube gave me a strike for simply showing YouTube is saying the video “encourages illegal activity or invites users to violate YouTube’s guidelines.”

A copy of the video in question: https://vid.me/vAZo

Do you know of any way I could reverse this strike? Can anyone help me by sharing the following video (it’s a video of me asking for help on this. My hopes is that some of the bigger players will pick it up and help out.)

Below is a few videos that you might want to check out on this subject.

What is an IP address:

A copy of the video in question: https://vid.me/vAZo

The strike itself and appeal:
(Towards the end I show the appeal process. It only lets you write a tweet worth of words.)

The rejection for the appeal:

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/6q2vr9/youtube_gave_me_a_strike_for_teaching_people/

Please feel free to ask me anything.

SIGKILL [r4v463]
7 years ago

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I didn’t watch the video, but from the title “Hack 6: How to trace someones IP address (Facebook, Government site, ETC) Joke video”, if we omit the “Joke video” at the end, it sounds pretty illegal. I won’t be surprised that a bot strikes your video for that reason, even if you don’t do what claims the title in your video (I can suppose you use things like netstat and websites to locate IP addresses in your video and that you don’t try to enter any server illegally). In your strike there’s written “When uploading a video, make sure to post as much information as possible in the title and description to help us and your viewers understand the primary purpose of the video”, so I really think it’s all about the title.

Maybe try to get in touch with a real person from Youtube and explain that you don’t try to enter any fb/gvt server. The problem

crua9
7 years ago | edited 7 years ago

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I’ve tried that, and they changed the strike from “encourages illegal activity or invites users to violate YouTube’s guidelines.” to “Reason: Violation of YouTubes policy on spam and deceptive practices.” This policy basically marks all videos under it. It literally has “untargeted, unwanted, or repetitive content in videos” in the policy. They can say, we don’t want this. Which is BS since they can just send an e-mail telling someone they don’t want it instead of having them wonder why they got a strike in the first place.
The video did use as you said netstat and a site, but it was also the 6th class I made on cyber security. (So we were still in the introduction phase)

Anyways, I’ve went at this every way I can think of. I’m at the point of allowing people to just repost my videos if they want. I made a terms today on it.
I figure at best it will be advertisement to the channel, and it will shove it in whomever face. At worst, nothing will happen. Other than a handful sharing the videos, I’m thinking nothing will happen. I doubt people care about this stuff anyways. It isn’t like I had any luck getting people to watch the bulk of my videos in the first place.