Ultimate_Trainer
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Last week, a confused and upset Kotaku reader named Craig, who runs the YouTube account Stoneious, asked for help figuring this out. Hed uploaded several Lets Play videos for Persona 4: Dancing All Night, when the first one was suddenly tagged with a copyright strike from an account called atlustube.
As it turns out, atlustube is the official Japanese YouTube channel for Atlus, a company based in Tokyo.
I do know that the video that got hit with a strike had well over 100 views, he told me, which is a lot for me. Maybe that popularity was my own undoing.
Stoneious had a whopping nine subscribers when this happened.
Like other Persona fans, RJC was psyched to share his playthrough of Persona 4: Dancing All Night with the world, so he started uploading videos to YouTube. While at a friends house, Atlus decided to target him with a series of copyright strikes that went beyond a 15-minute upload limit: his channel was now dead.
Heres a small taste of what CJC found in his inbox:
Then, a weird thing happened. RJCs fans told him to contact Atlus, see if they might help out. A few days later, his YouTube account came back from the dead.
If anyone is concerned about the content they upload to their channel, Id recommend they get in touch with atluspr@atlus.com beforehand, said Atlus USA spokesperson John Hardin when asked about the copyright strikes.
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Persona 5 is coming up, and its weird to see the difference of attitude of ATLUS and their US counterpart.