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Samsung 'Blocks' Exploding Note 7 Parody Videos

Samsung appears to have filed copyright claims against YouTube videos mocking its recalled Galaxy Note 7 handset. Many gamers have showcased a modification to video game Grand Theft Auto V, in which sticky bombs were switched with exploding Samsung phones.

But some have reported that their videos have been blocked on YouTube following a copyright complaint.

Samsung has not yet responded to repeated BBC requests for comment.

Critics have warned that trying to remove gamers' videos will only draw more attention to them.

One US gamer - known as DoctorGTA - said restrictions had been put on his YouTube account as a result of Samsung's complaint. "It's going to take three months to get the strike removed from my channel... I got my live stream taken away," he said in a video.

Game Modification Ridicules Samsung Galaxy Note 7

The gamer HitmanNiko (non-Cloudflare link), and perhaps others, modified the sticky bomb weapon in Grand Theft Auto V , giving it the appearance of the trouble-prone Samsung Galaxy Note 7 mobile phone. Reportedly, Samsung sent a DMCA notice to YouTube, requesting that one of the videos showing the mod in use be taken offline, and YouTube, initially, complied. The video (N.B. shows violence) is currently available; according to the uploader, "YouTube finally put it back up."

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related:
Samsung Recalls Galaxy Note 7 due to 'Exploding' Batteries

Samsung Faces the Prospect of a Second Galaxy Note 7 Recall

UPDATE: Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production


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Samsung Recalls Galaxy Note 7 due to ‘Exploding’ Batteries 4 comments

Two Soylentils wanted to fill us in on Samsung's Note 7.

Every shipped Galaxy Note 7 is subject to a battery-related recall:

Looks like Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 can give you some bang for your buck after all—Samsung will be issuing a global recall for all 2.5 million of the phones it has shipped so far, says Reuters. Some of the phones shipped with faulty batteries that could catch on fire. Details of the recall program will be available as soon as Samsung works out the details with different carriers in different countries, and customers will be able to exchange their phones for models with non-faulty batteries or get their money back entirely.

Samsung provided the following statement to Ars and other publications:

"In response to recently reported cases of the new Galaxy Note 7, we conducted a thorough investigation and found a battery cell issue. To date (as of September 1) there have been 35 cases that have been reported globally and we are currently conducting a thorough inspection with our suppliers to identify possible affected batteries in the market. However, because our customers' safety is an absolute priority at Samsung, we have stopped sales of the Galaxy Note 7. For customers who already have Galaxy Note 7 devices, we will voluntarily replace their current device with a new one over the coming weeks."

As reported by CNN Samsung has decided to pull a Dell and ship batteries in the latest addtion to their flagship lineup - The Note 7. (A shame - I was going to buy two). Samsung has issued this statement, which could have been shortened to "We're sorry we set some shit on fire. Here, have a new one on the house". All prompted by this video.


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Samsung Faces the Prospect of a Second Galaxy Note 7 Recall 6 comments

Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 troubles may not be over, following another incendiary incident aboard an aircraft:

Samsung Electronics Co. could face an unusual second recall of its Note 7 smartphones if one that caught fire aboard an airliner this week is a replacement device as its owner says, two former U.S. safety officials said.

The Federal Aviation Administration and the Consumer Product Safety Commission are investigating Wednesday's incident, when a passenger's phone emitted smoke on a Southwest Airlines Co. plane readying for departure from Louisville, Kentucky. A flight attendant doused it with a fire extinguisher, and the plane was evacuated without injury. "If it's the fixed phone and it started to smoke in his pocket, I'm going to guess there'll be another recall," said Pamela Gilbert, a former executive director of the consumer agency. "That just doesn't sound right."

Samsung has been engulfed in crisis since the Note 7 smartphones began to burst into flames just days after hitting the market in August. The Suwon, South Korea-based company announced last month that it would replace all 2.5 million phones sold globally at that point. Samsung said it had uncovered the cause of the battery fires and that it was certain new phones wouldn't have the same flaws. [...] Samsung and U.S. officials announced the [first] recall after 92 reports of batteries overheating in the U.S., with 26 cases involving burns.

Previously:

Samsung Recalls Galaxy Note 7 due to 'Exploding' Batteries
Florida Man Sues Samsung Over Galaxy Note 7 that Exploded in His Pants


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UPDATE: Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production 36 comments

"We are temporarily adjusting the Galaxy Note7 production schedule in order to take further steps to ensure quality and safety matters," a company spokesperson said. Production of the phone has been temporarily suspended, a person familiar with the matter told CNN on Monday.

The development is the latest in a string of embarrassing setbacks for Samsung over the Note 7, one of its flagship smartphones. It comes aftercell phone carriers in the United States and Australia said they would stop offering replacement Note 7s following concerns that the new versions are no safer from fire risk than the originals.

Soon after the Galaxy Note 7 hit stores in August, some users reported that their phones were catching fire. Samsung (SSNLF) recalled about 2.5 million of the devices worldwide last month, blaming faulty batteries for overheating the phones and causing them to ignite.

Replacement phones were supposed to solve the issue, and users started trading in their old devices. But some customers have been reporting the same dangerous problems with their new phones.

In the past week, an American user reported his replacement phone caught fire, even though it wasn't plugged in. And on Wednesday, smoke started billowing from a replacement Galaxy Note 7 aboard a Southwest Airline plane before it departed, prompting the flight's cancellation.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has said it is investigating the incident on the plane.

TuanAnh Nguyen, a research analyst at Canalys, said the production halt would cost Samsung billions of dollars in lost sales over the next six to nine months. It should now abandon the product entirely, he said. "Samsung needs to quickly put an end to the Note 7 line so as not to get deeper into trouble with recalls and faulty devices which will tarnish its brand," Nguyen said.

UPDATE:

Official: Samsung Halts All Sales of Galaxy Note 7, Recommends Powering Down and Getting a Refund |

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Moments ago, Samsung confirmed that they are halting all sales and exchanges of the Galaxy Note 7 across the globe. Not only that, but they are recommending that owners of the phone turn them off and “take advantage of the remedies available.” Those remedies are returning the phone at the place of purchase for a refund …

Source: http://www.droid-life.com/2016/10/10/official-samsung-halts-sales-galaxy-note-7-recommends-powering-getting-refund/

All sales and production of the Galaxy Note 7 have now been halted.


Previously:

Samsung Recalls Galaxy Note 7 due to 'Exploding' Batteries
Florida Man Sues Samsung Over Galaxy Note 7 that Exploded in His Pants
Samsung Faces the Prospect of a Second Galaxy Note 7 Recall


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by MadTinfoilHatter on Saturday October 22 2016, @01:51AM

    by MadTinfoilHatter (4635) on Saturday October 22 2016, @01:51AM (#417492)

    I can't believe there are still morons in marketing departments who haven't heard about this little thing called the Streisand effect...

    • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @01:54AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @01:54AM (#417493)

      This will blowup in their faces.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by TheGratefulNet on Saturday October 22 2016, @02:09AM

      by TheGratefulNet (659) on Saturday October 22 2016, @02:09AM (#417496)

      samsung is korean. they think differently and they are NOT a western company by any means.

      they also think they're god and as big as the universe.

      I think they have a bit of reality-check coming their way.

      in fact, I hope their fucking stock tanks. they're an evil company in so many ways.

      basically, they fail to 'get it' time after time after time.

      seriously, I hope their company collapses due to this bullshit. I know it won't, but I can still hope for some cosmic justice for all the BS they do to their customers.

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      • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday October 22 2016, @02:29AM

        by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday October 22 2016, @02:29AM (#417501) Homepage

        Samsung were yesterday's Onkyo [onkyousa.com] only a few years ago. But they hired some competent engineers and marketers, and now they're a BIG NAME!

        I have a Samsung smartphone, my first. It's been great, ultra-reliable, but I bought it 2 years ago back when they had quality control. Who knows that the fuck is going on now, but thankfully, I work in the electronics industry so I know the crap curve. Next I'll be buying at cost a 2001-era flip-phone and depending on the workable software those assholes wrote then.

        • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Saturday October 22 2016, @02:46AM

          by Snotnose (1623) on Saturday October 22 2016, @02:46AM (#417506)

          Interesting you mention Onkyo. I had one of their top end receivers some 20 years ago. It was one of the first they put a microprocessor in. It was great, easy UI, sound was great, price was good, I was golden. Except every 4-5 months it would freeze. You had to unplug it, then plug it back in to get it back. If you're anything like me, with a wall unit and several dozen power cords going down to a few power strips, unplugging it was a major pain. Somehow I found out about a 3 finger salute, something like power button + B speakers + CD input (made up, hell if I remember the 3 buttons) held down for a few seconds would reboot the receiver and all was good again.

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          • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @03:37AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @03:37AM (#417514)

            Or you could have moved here, we have short power failures more often than you had to reboot the Onkyo...

    • (Score: 1) by toddestan on Sunday October 23 2016, @12:37AM

      by toddestan (4982) on Sunday October 23 2016, @12:37AM (#417700)

      Well, the Streisand effect really isn't at play here, as the Galaxy Note 7's issues are already widely known.

      But still, they should know that abusing the DMCA to take down videos they don't like is not going to buy them any favors.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 26 2016, @02:10PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 26 2016, @02:10PM (#418982)

      The Streisand effect is like adding fuel to the fire ...

  • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Saturday October 22 2016, @02:39AM

    by Snotnose (1623) on Saturday October 22 2016, @02:39AM (#417504)

    The only way to stop this BS is to form a class action lawsuit. Granted, you will make pennies and the lawyer(s) will make thousands. But if you want your videos to be seen when they aren't infringing anyone's rights, except those easily butthurt, you need to band together and sue Google.

    On the other hand, if you lose it's the lawyers that lose all the money. So, win win, amirite?

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    • (Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Saturday October 22 2016, @02:44AM

      by TheGratefulNet (659) on Saturday October 22 2016, @02:44AM (#417505)

      CAL is never about YOU making any money; but its always been about punishing a big co that would not be easily punished in a one-off lawsuit.

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      • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Saturday October 22 2016, @02:53AM

        by Snotnose (1623) on Saturday October 22 2016, @02:53AM (#417507)

        This is exactly the problem with a CAL. You can be butthurt, but did the company do wrong? Do lots of other folks feel butthurt as well? Some lawyer files a class action, company has to spend $$$ to defend while the lawyer spends nothing but time, and IMHO the results are random.

        Maybe I'm jaded. When Governor Deukmejian won a CAS against Levis for something or other I submitted a claim, think I was gonna get $1 for every pair of Levis I'd bought. 40 years later, I'm still waiting for the $3 check.

        Get crap in the mail for a class action lawsuit for something or other every month or so, I toss them all into the trash as soon as I realize what they are.

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        Why shouldn't we judge a book by it's cover? It's got the author, title, and a summary of what the book's about.
        • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Saturday October 22 2016, @03:21AM

          by Nerdfest (80) on Saturday October 22 2016, @03:21AM (#417511)

          Wouldn't it be better for a pile of people that lost money due to their false claims to individually take them to court, or even small claims court if it's within the amount it cost them? Eating up their lawyer time would be a pretty good punishment, the actual people it cost money to would get paid, perhaps even with some punitive damages as well.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @02:41PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @02:41PM (#417579)

      Google should not be the target of any lawsuits, it needs to be whoever is making the takedown request and they need to put up a bond ahead of time before making any takedown requests in case they get sued. Google can be fined huge amounts of money if they keep infringing content up and so to fine them for taking down content on their own servers at their discretion would put them in an unfair position. It's their servers, they can take down content for whatever reason they want. You're probably one of those pro-IP Google haters that just wants Google to die.

      and the fine for making bogus takedown requests should be greater than infringement penalties.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @04:24PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @04:24PM (#417598)

        google should be punished for being such kiss ass whores! all they have to do is look at the video before taking it down instead of taking down first and asking questions later. you're just a boot licker like them.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @07:22PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @07:22PM (#417637)

          Google shouldn't have to bear the legal burden of making such a determination, the person(s) sending the takedown request should bear that burden and if they are wrong it should be at their expense.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @05:36PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @05:36PM (#417616)

      that's the other way and it might work better

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @04:10AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @04:10AM (#417519)

    The penalties for abusing the DMCA should be made much larger. It's too easy for a fat cat to shoot little guys with it.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by pkrasimirov on Saturday October 22 2016, @09:37AM

    by pkrasimirov (3358) Subscriber Badge on Saturday October 22 2016, @09:37AM (#417557)

    In response to the ongoing nuclear program of North Korea, South Korea conducted tests of the new Galaxy Note 8.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @12:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @12:50PM (#417564)

    Plan A:
    S and YT act normally.
    Gamer says "It's going to take three months to get the strike removed from my channel... I got my live stream taken away,".
    Streisand Effect wins.
    Repeat with new players.

    Plan B:
    Congress adjusts the law.
    S files takedown after same amount of thinking.
    YT see's it is nuts and asks S why they could reasonably believe there claim is valid.
    S is unable to answer in complete sentences and gets 3 month takedown timeout.
    During which time YT gets a free safe harbor from S.
    Next time S is a bit smarter in their use of this mechanism and doesn't suffer from Streisand Effect .

    Plan B is of course impossible. It requires a wise congress which can make things that fun.

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by TrentDavey on Saturday October 22 2016, @01:47PM

    by TrentDavey (1526) on Saturday October 22 2016, @01:47PM (#417568)

    Have they seen Rick Mercer's Fall Camping Equipment "ad" using Samsung equipment?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3duY66vtBjQ/ [youtube.com]

  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday October 22 2016, @06:36PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Saturday October 22 2016, @06:36PM (#417627) Journal

    That's an excellent reason not to buy Samsung. It means that later, when they claim the problems have been fixed, you shouldn't believe them, because their move is to stifle criticism.

    Who's left? Nexus?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 24 2016, @01:01PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 24 2016, @01:01PM (#418129)

      Sadly the Nexus line is dead as Google is now pushing their Pixel phone line which completely removes all of the reasons that made Nexus desirable. Hurry and go buy a Nexus 5x or 6p before they are gone, and after that, I dunno, OnePlus, maybe?