YouTuber\u2019s account to be terminated after another channel \u201cstole\u201d his videos YouTube: AquachiggerA YouTuber who has been posting for 13 years has revealed that his account is due to be terminated, after YouTube deemed him to be making \u201cfraudulent\u201d DMCA claims against another channel \u201cstealing\u201d his videos. Beau \u2018Aquachigger\u2019 Ouimette isn\u2019t a YouTuber that you typically think of when you look at stars on the platform \u2013 but, with over 1 million subscribers, he\u2019s certainly built himself a solid platform, and has been featured on TV, too. Defined by the Sky History TV channel as \u201ca master Relic Hunter who specializes in shallow water river hunting,\u201d many of Aquachigger\u2019s videos feature him hiking and searching for treasure. Now, after over a decade of working on his channel, Ouimette is set to lose it all. On Monday, May 3, Aquachigger uploaded a video titled \u201cAquachiggers Youtube Termination Notice: Someone Stole My Videos And Youtube Is Terminating Me\u201d Read More: KSI reveals reason behind shock YouTube ban – In it, Beau discusses the channel which he says is stealing his videos, alleging that they\u2019re posing as \u201creaction videos\u201d and simply flipping and slowing his videos. He filed a DMCA claim, requesting YouTube remove them. In the video description he adds: \u201cYoutube now thinks I do not own my own works and has \u2018determined\u2019 that I have submitted \u2018fraudulent\u2019 copyright complaints.\u201d The channel in question is based in Saudi Arabia and has well over 6m subscribers, dwarfing Aquachigger\u2019s impressive number in comparison. Aquachigger adds that he received a notice of termination for his account, effective from May 7, 2021, unless he gives up copyright ownership rights of the two videos that have been \u201cstolen.\u201d Even if he does so, they still say that the DMCA claim was \u201cfraudulent,\u201d which could result in termination regardless. YouTube community backs Aquachigger The YouTube community has come out in full force to defend Aquachigger and his channel, whether they were already fans or not. One Reddit thread about the situation has garnered well over 50k upvotes, with one commenter saying that \u201cChigg is one of the best on the platform\u201d and that he \u201chopes some big channels hear about this and help him out.\u201d Planet of the Apes and The Maze Runner director Wes Ball also tried reaching out to YouTube, demanding them to help him out. A simple search of his name on Twitter returns hundreds of tweets with fans trying to get the decision reversed, with the full YouTube community getting behind him. Thus far, one of the targeted videos has been removed from Ouimette\u2019s copyright claims. It remains unknown whether the other video will be removed and, ultimately, what the fate of the Aquachigger YouTube channel will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTuber\u2019s account to be terminated after another channel \u201cstole\u201d his videos YouTube: AquachiggerA YouTuber who has been posting for 13 years has revealed that his account is due to be terminated, after YouTube deemed him to be making \u201cfraudulent\u201d DMCA claims against another channel \u201cstealing\u201d his videos. Beau \u2018Aquachigger\u2019 Ouimette isn\u2019t a YouTuber that you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}