Arent these people running these apps constantly just robbing Peter to pay Paul? Paying out with fresh deposits? These no way they have all player funds in a segregated account.

This is probably a fair assessment for a lot of agencies run by degens. Though they should make enough from rake if there are a lot of players.

You and Jerry Jones are both right, but it still does amount to a Ponzi scheme if at any time there are suddenly a lot of players all trying to withdraw, creating a "run on the bank" type scenario.

It's also going to happen occasionally where there isn't a run on the bank, but the agent has simply punted off all the funds they are holding and/or spent them on their own lifestyle/living expenses.

Until crypto bottomed out. No telling the losses that have been suffered.

I think he may have some kind of legal point given that your video had a sponsored section, and you even admitted that yourself, that this was not in your favour.

He also came across as polite, if quite business like, in his messages. I don't think he was trying to bully or bigtime you, he appeared to believe that you might be
infringing his copyright, and perhaps you were.

Also, I don't see how the situation you described has any bearing on the subject being discussed in this thread.

You appear to be attacking him, because you legal grey area used some of his content in your video and he policed you up on it.

The use of "your" and "you" make it sound like you think I'm Rampage.

very immature look from rampage & mariano , often dislike findingEQs arguments/takes but this one seems fair game in him making a video repsonding/ pushing back

I don't get what you mean.

I know you're not Rampage and I think it's pretty clear that I am addressing you in my previous post, not him.

You haven't covered yourself in glory in your attack video on him. Yes, perhaps he is going after you aggressively, in a legal sense,
but that's his right. Regardless of some of the other stuff that he might be up to regarding being a poker agent for an app,
he put many, many long hours into building his channel from scratch, so why shouldn't he protect it from someone like you who
is trying to gain views on your monetized channel, and earn money from sponsorship, in part off of the back of his hard work, by using his content.

You are calling him talentless, saying he lacks creativity and highlighting that he sells his own brand of poker chip card protector for $20.

Well his channel is way more popular than yours, so I will be as bold to say that he has a lot more idea than you have about how to grow
a poker based channel and a lot more talent than you.

I think his videos are very watchable and so do thousands of other people. He has a great personality and the videos are engaging.

I would suggest that you take your attack video of him down, not because it is infringing any copyright, but because it comes across as quite petulant.

If you were so confident in your 4 point analysis of the original video not infringing his copyright, then you would have left it up there
instead of taking it down and giving weak excuses as to why you decided to take it down.

It appears that you can talk the legal talk, but you cannot walk the legal walk.

So Baracus is behind the Finding Equilibrium Youtube channel?

Its pretty clear you don't have any clue how copyright strikes work on youtube. The strikee has very little power and often has to jump through ridiculous hoops. Probably easier to take the 100$ video down and make a scathing critique than to deal with a months worth of bullshit that may or may not get resolved

Ok, so you are the Finding Equilibrium guy. Do you have a script that notifies you if someone has posted your video so you can hurry there to fight the "haters" who don't agree?

I get that.

So if Finding Equilibrium is certain that he has not infringed copyright, leaves the video up there and YouTube then suspend his account for a month or apply other penalties, then he should sue Rampage for damages on the basis that Rampage has unjustifiably caused damage to his YouTube channel by falsely reporting a copyright infringement to YouTube.

He is trying to have it both ways, by saying that he hasn't infringred copyright, but not having the courage of his convictions to fight it legally.

If he did have the courage, and won, then he likely wouldn't encounter these same issues again, as he would have set a legal precedent.

Again, it is hard to interpret exactly what your post above is on about.

I thought he was, but it appears now from his most recent post, that he isn't.

Perhaps he could have made that clear when he first posted.

By him just posting the video ITT and nothing else, it gave the impression that it was his video, or certainly made it possible to think that.

Or he could not derail his life with frivolous court cases and do exactly what he did

Which is make a childish video.

If he had any balls he would have challenged Rampage's view directly in an official letter and/or email to him, and in a very professional way, setting out to Rampage the exact legal reasons why he thinks he has not infringed Rampage's copyright.

And added in that letter, that if Rampage incorrectly reports it as a copyright infringement to YouTube, that he, Finding Equilibrium, will sue Rampage for any losses or damages caused as a direct and/or indirect effect of Rampage's actions.

This is what you should do if you feel someone is falsely legally threatening you, you should fight back using the law, and the threat of the use of the law, not fold like a baby.

I have nothing to do with the video. I just follow the guys Youtube channel and had a few laughs when I watched it. It is content that fits my taste well and I hope this escalates to an entertaining feud.

Finding Equilibrium > Rampage

Fight me

I'd be very surprised if the majority of people thought this. People post other people's YouTube videos all over the internet every day. There was nothing in that post that should lead you to believe he was the creator of the video rather than somebody just sharing it. I see no reason why he should have to make it clear he isn't in his post. In fact, I think it's the exact opposite. If he did make the video then that would be a situation where it's better to make it known.

Yes it was an incorrect assumption by me but it would have been nice of him to have told me that in his first reply.

There was also no relevance of him posting the video in this thread, so I disagree with you overall.

In this particular instance he should have typed something along the lines of, look at this YouTube copyright dispute between Finding Equilibrium and Rampage, and perhaps added why he thinks it is relevant to this thread.

Regardless of the actual name and original discussion of a thread, the most popular thread about a person will often become the go-to thread where people will post future updates regarding that person, regardless of the relevance to the initial purpose of the thread. This helps to limit the amount of new threads being made.

To me it just sounds like he had a contract with a sponsor in the original Rampage video, the original video got taken down so he just made a new video with the same ad to fill the contract.
Maybe he wouldn't have made the video otherwise. Don't really care about the situation just thought this should be pointed out.

Some kind of corroboration on Twitter that Rampage is associated with Splash Squad

https://twitter.com/rampagepoker/sta...10340503699456

Sorry, couldn't get the Tweets to embed in the post, so here's a copy and paste of the thread:

(In case Rampage deletes his Tweet.)

Cliffs: Nik Airball talking about this Fridays' Hustler live game, Rampage asking to be staked, someone saying to Rampage, "Can you pay me back the rake you take from GG Poker Splash Squad First?" Then someone alleging that Rampage is gambling with other people's (Splash Squad) money, although doesn't specify if he means with rake, or with money held in trust against "play chips" purchased.

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Nik Airball
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Rampage
@rampagepoker
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Stake me?
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Jami Lafay
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Lol �� yeah me too
Randy
@flyzfw
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@LafayJami
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@rampagepoker
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@nikairball
Why punt when you can let Jami make you money!!
Matteo
@Matthew06817894
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@rampagepoker
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@nikairball
Can you pay me back the rake you take from GG Poker Splash Squad First?
NYChelp20
@NChelp20
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damn, you got sucked into giving them your money so that they can gamble with it?

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So there is an element of "you can run but you cannot hide" about someone who portrays the face of respectability using social media to do so,
but at the same time is doing things in the background that they most likely do not want to be public, because now and again someone will pop
up on the very same social media platforms and reveal the thing that is happening in the background.

What was the original finding equilibrium video? Was it making fun or rampage or something?