A video showing the disassembly and repair of an unusually expensive piece of audiophile equipment was published on YouTube and was deleted due to copyright infringement
The £25,000 Pre-Amp Repair and the Copyright Strike - YouTube
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Mark, who runs Mend It Mark, repaired a £25,000 preamp 'MasterGroove STD Mk3' in a previous video. This was a preamp that a buyer had owned but it broke, and they sent it to the manufacturer, but it was sent back because it 'cannot be repaired.'
The video has been viewed 252,000 times, but has been deleted at the time of writing. When viewing the video's item in the dashboard, it can be confirmed that a copyright infringement claim has been received. However, there is no information on which part of the video specifically violated the copyright, so Mark contacted YouTube via their email address.
However, YouTube did not answer the question of 'Which part of the video was infringed?' Furthermore, it seems that they arbitrarily took Mark's email as an 'objection to the removal of the video' and rejected the objection.
This time, Mark revisits what he did in his previous video and examines what went wrong.
First, they reproduced the preamplifier failure and identified what the problem was. Here, they used an oscilloscope to check the waveform, and at this stage, they believe that there is unlikely to have been any copyright infringement, and even if something on the oscilloscope constituted copyright infringement, it would be fair use.
The next step was to remove the cover of the preamplifier to see what was inside. Mark decided to recreate the circuit diagram using Jenga blocks, as he felt it might be a copyright infringement.
It looks like a pretty shoddy job, but this is what it actually looked like inside. The inside of the preamp was made up of four cheap, homemade boards, and the failure was caused by a short in
During the repair process, Mark created a homemade manual, which also contained general diagrams explaining the theory of operation, but Mark claims that this was handwritten by Mark and that the preamp itself had no special structure, so there is no copyright infringement.
In the repair part, I replaced the shorted tantalum capacitor and successfully repaired the preamp. Looking at the whole thing, I can't find any parts that seem to be copyright infringing.
'We hope this new video is safe from further copyright infringement from the weirdly vengeful makers,' said technology media outlet Hackaday, suggesting that the copyright claims against the previous video were a form of harassment from the makers.
In addition, the number of subscribers of Mend It Mark's channel has exceeded 100,000, and it seems that the silver shield arrived from YouTube at the right time, Mark said, 'It wasn't all bad news.'
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