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YouTuber won DMCA fight with fake Nintendo lawyer by detecting spoofed email

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Dominik "Domtendo" Neumayer says he was targeted by a fake Nintendo lawyer.

The German YouTuber says the fake takedown requests were signed by Nintendo 's legal department.

The fake requests came from a personal account at an encrypted email service.

For many YouTubers , a takedown request is considered too risky to challenge, even if fake.

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