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> [...] a bunch of dramatic YouTube content [...]

That framing doesn't do him and the team justice. There is (or better, was) a 3.5h long story about NVIDIA GPUs finding their ways illegaly from the US to China, which got taken down by a malicious DMCA claim from Bloomberg. It is quite interesting to watch (Can be found archive.org).

GN is one of the last pro-consumer outlets, that keep on digging and shaking the tree big companys are sitting on.





For the record, I think GN is excellent and highly credible.



That copy is missing the chapters. Here they are:

00:00:00 - The NVIDIA AI GPU Black Market

00:06:06 - WE NEED YOUR HELP

00:07:41 - A BIG ADVENTURE

00:10:10 - Ignored by the US

00:11:46 - BACKGROUND: Why They're Banned

00:16:04 - TIMELINE

00:21:32 - H20 15 Percent Revenue Share with the US

00:26:01 - Calculating BANNED GPUs

00:29:31 - OUR INFORMANTS

00:31:47 - THE SMUGGLING PIPELINE

00:33:39 - PART 1: HONG KONG Demand Drivers

00:43:14 - PART 1: How Do Suppliers Get the GPUs?

00:48:18 - PART 1: GPU Rich and GPU Poor

00:56:19 - PART 1: DATACENTER with Banned GPUs, AMD, Intel

01:06:19 - PART 1: Chinese Military, Huawei GPUs

01:09:48 - PART 1: How China Circumvents the Ban

01:19:30 - PART 1: GPU MARKET in Hong Kong

01:32:39 - WIRING MONEY TO CHINA

01:36:29 - PART 2: CHINA Smuggling Process

01:43:26 - PART 3: SHENZHEN's GPU MIDDLEMEN

01:50:22 - PART 3: AMD and INTEL GPUs Unwanted

01:56:34 - PART 4: THE GPU FENCE

02:06:01 - PART 4: FINDING the GPUs

02:15:12 - PART 4: THE FIXER IC Supplier

02:21:12 - PART 5: GPU WAREHOUSE

02:27:17 - PART 6: CHOP SHOP and REPAIR

02:34:52 - PART 6: BUILD a Custom AI GPU

02:56:33 - PART 7: FACTORY

03:01:01 - PART 8: TAIWAN and SINGAPORE Intermediaries

03:02:06 - PART 9: SMUGGLER

03:05:11 - LEGALITY of Buying and Selling

03:08:05 - CORRUPTION: NVIDIA and Governments

03:26:51 - SIGNOFF


Given that Gamers Nexus needs the ad revenue wouldn't linking to a re-upload that wouldn't give them any of that be sort of bad?

While they can't publish it themselves this at least achieves the goal of the information being spread, along with the knowledge that it was their investigative team that did the work in the first place.

But yes, once they reedit and republish themselves (or manage some sort of appeal and republish as-is) then of course linking to that (and a smaller cut of the parts they've had to change because Bloomberg were litigious arseholes, if only to highlight that their copyright claim here is somewhat ridiculous) would be much better.


It sounds like their lawyers have done the appropriate counter-challenge with YouTube, so the video will go back up unless Bloomberg sues them in the next so many days. And this is Gamers Nexus, so I presume they will fight to keep it as is on principle.

Personally, I found the length of the quotes from politicians kind of tedious, but I sure wouldn’t want them to capitulate to Bloomberg after this.


They do not "need" it since that movie was crowd funded with over 400k anyways and AdSense are pittance in comparison. They also have indirectly promoted that reupload.

YouTube ad revenue isn't as high as you'd think. A very significant part of their income comes from in-video sponsors and merchandise sales.

Agreed. I'm waiting until they get it back up to watch it. I can wait.

buy a mug from them to support them!

>Given that Gamers Nexus needs the ad revenue

They made six figures from merch sales on that investigation. Not much, but more than Youtube ads.


When something is uploaded to the internet, it won't be easy to take it down.

Ask Beyonce.


Or Barbra Streisand

Can you explain further about Beyoncé? Do you mean the elevator video where her sister attacks Jay Z?

There is a picture on internet that Beyonce and her lawyers don't like. They tried to remove it from the internet.

You guess the result.



Haha I love that one. She should have just leaned into it and laughed.

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Have you seen and watched their longer form content, esp. lately?



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