Soggy Cereal Defends Zack D. Films From Freebooters

Dunno if you know, but freebooting the content of other creators is wrong.

What's this "freebooting" you're talking about? Well, basically it is downloading a video someone else made and re-uploading without the original creator's permission and usually without their knowledge and getting paid. Basically its the theft of the intellectual property of others for one's own gain.

Many channels make use of this nefarious activity to divert views from the person who posted the video (on TikTok, YouTube or one of many platforms) and slapping on monetization so you get paid, because Daddy needs to buy that new car, bay-bee!

I've noticed some of the videos of Soggy Cereal, a YouTube creator with a sweet audience of 314K who has been posting since November 2022. He has 59 videos up as of today and points out examples of alleged plagiarism, fraud and your usual scam artists. Not just YouTube drama but he's trying to shed some much needed light into some of the darker corners of YouTube, TikTok, etc.

In the video below, Soggy (can I call you Soggy? I'm gonna to call you Soggy) points out some spammy, freebooting by a number of channels that seem to ripping off the content of Zach D. Films, a youtuber with over 21 million subscribers and several imitators.

YouTube doesn’t work anymore

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but this isn't flattery and this sure isn't imitation.

Its freebooting.

The ones doing this do not admire Zach's efforts or his content. They see his content as low hanging fruit and they wanna take bite out of it. And take a bite they do, as Soggy points out in the video.

These guys repost Zach's content, in full, and provide absolutely nothing transformative about it except for their user names and the bank account they use to funnel the cash they make from slapping on their adsense account (Hello, Google? Are you really okay with this?).

They fall far short of even the most lax description of free use and set themselves up to potentially getting copyright strikes up to having their YouTube accounts and Adsense accounts deleted for their actions.

But maybe they think they haven't really suffered any repercussions and maybe YouTube and the Big G don't really care? The online world is littered with accounts banned, delisted, demonetized and closed for freebooting and even less. Soggy mentioned JJJacksfilms and the stuff he does to help curtail the most flagrant examples of content theft, freebooting and general negative skullduggery which seems to run rampant on sites like TikTok and YouTube. I do follow JJJackfilms on YouTube (and even posted on this blog about a recent video he did) and he's always looking for examples of freebooting to take at look at. Maybe he'll look at Zach D. Films dilemma with content thievery? Can't speak for him myself.

Oh, and if you're thinking by posting Soggy's video above that I'm somehow also guilty of freebooting his content, all views on this blog automatically are credited by YouTube to the content creators and I cannot monetize their videos, so any ad revenue also goes to the usual suspects (creator 55 percent / YouTube 45 percent)

Finally, my somewhat lengthy rant here is transformative by definition (commentary/critique) which is more than can be said about Zach's so-called "imitators".