The Minecraft scam NO ONE is talking about! 

I knew there was a reason why RU-vid is recommending this to me now

This is great to happy to see this

@@GracemarieJohnson2763 I think he's joking. It would be so ironic.

@@GracemarieJohnson2763 ofc its sarcastic

Yeah lol

🤣

getting a book like this and then finding out its about other books similar to one you bought,saying its a scam, you would be VERY disappointed. just imagine it.

watl watl

Bruh

Ah yes. Your "thumbaul"

certified wattles moment

oh, hello

hey it’s the red flags game guy

@@5280carspotting omggggggggggggggggg

you're giving em ideas

@@hl2betafan based user name.

@@Goontender had nothing else to choose

Lol

Lol

Lol

Lol

Lol

AGREED

Definitely

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BkTj2ZOZbws.html Fax yes :)

It might be expensive tho

Hmm it'll cost more than it's worth

It’s like some weird robot crime ring from a shifty cyberpunk game

Zero human interaction? Who gets the money from selling the books then?

@@Ponera-Sama me fr

Sad af tho that people actually fall for these things

Just makesme realize how desperately I need to get into e-commerce. Obviously some idiots out there were buying enough of these books for the culprit to continue taking the risk. I just gotta provide like eco friendly q-tips or some garbage that enough people want to buy online to make me money lmao 😅

Hello fellow designer! It's crazy how often bad design turns up, ain't it?

As Outside Xtra said: "That's even worse!"

They'll make a book out of it...

@@TheyCallMeIce Lol

What do you think they're gonna do be sad and never scam again? They'll just make more books.

plottwist: i hope this video gets published

The more you look the worse this book gets in terms of infringement

@@RetroGamingNow How would you feel if the covers were ACTUALLY GOOD?

@@jacobwilks9204 Probably just as bad

A shitty font that can't be used for free 😂

wow, give some weeks and we might even discover that the hex colors used in the cover and title bar are also copyright infringements

xd

Tears rolled out as she leaned closer. she opened her lips, and she said something I would never forget. ever. "the villagers are much more aggressive towards the villager"

Society

"creaters"

Don't forget building and crafting guides 😂

@@anthonymarino3920 and graphic novels

@@KevinIsNice6984 how foolish to forget the graphic novels of minecrafting

That are indeed confirmed Canon. To be perfect for minecrafters kids and adults

ah yes the 3 genders, Minecrafter, Kid and Adult.

I think so too man

it depends on the seller

Depends on product settings

I would frame it

I'm going to burn it! Stay tuned...

FR, I’m glad they didn’t go past ep 9 but like why did they skip 8?

When you put it like that, I almost want to read it, lol

@mind relaxing stupid copy-paste bot

It's like a food critic. XD

@mind relaxing I will ignore this :]

also the american psycho fade in and out was a nice touch

Honestly thought the Witch image was from an old DanTDM video

Mm. It’s hard to since their using pseudonyms but maybe with an actual’s lawyers help he could. But it might not be worth the time effort or money.

hi lynix

Lol hi

Lynixity!

Doni is a duck

imagine getting trolled by a duck☠️☠️☠️

Early verified comment with no likes or comments?

@@miecaf Bruh he is a content creator wdym

@@miecaf I find it hard to believe you don't know who mysticat is

@@dragoncat621 who said I don't I've literally watched like 6 of his videos

Can RNG make a video investigating these verified comment bots? I swear I have no clue why these are happening

it breaks so many laws

But did he fond out who the author is?

Amazon can. I figure if he gets an attorney, the attorney can force Amazon to allow him to file the suit against the perp. Or, he can contact Amazon's asset' s protection branch, prove his identity somehow after disclosing his situation, and A.P. can forward the info to his attorney. Tomato, tomado.

Love you, Leonard, you’re doin’ the lord’s work out here

Haha I was your 666th like >:)

Imagine if this video was made into a book

@@RetroGamingNow hopefully never.

@@entity_night That would be funny though, a book exposing the author

The irony...

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BkTj2ZOZbws.html Just Dont miss this }

@@Chkprofilename Speaking of bots and people who should get sued...

@@Noam-Bahar Already did.

@@inendlesspain4724 same

Wow! Ya think?

"I used the villagers to defeat the villagers"

Lol

Villager wars should actually be a thing in MC

@@borritoguy2286 Villager News already did that!

@@ARandomSpace they are talking about in minecraft (game)

Yes

Who knew villagers were capable of civil wars?

Ah yes, the floor is made out floor

the villager's village would then be villaged by the villagers aggressive to the villagers village

I too, *village*

I agree.

I mean yeah, if you're gonna copy someone, at least do it right

XD

I died of laughter reading that as a Hermitcraft fan

How to save this?

@@nhantnt what lol

@@nhantnt screenshot

Oh, yuck. Are you saying that you've seen "books" like this scraped from other genres of RU-vid videos as well? It seemed likely that there could be, and RetroGaming was only seeing Minecraft ones because the breadcrumbs left by the initial book were Minecraf (perfect for kids and adults) specific...

@@bsidethebox Yes they did other Minecraft RU-vidrs, Roblox, and some Gacha videos. It's so annoying because I want to just read a Minecraft comic and I get these sussy "books" instead.

I recommend you try the legend of Dave the villager and diary of a surfer villager if you are a good reader, cringey named I know but the content is not bad at all

@@ChameleonRC I have read those they were amazing! 😃

Hmmm..... Sounds to me like there is a market for original Minecraft story books. What constitutes an "amazing" Minecraft story which isn't simply any other story, but set in Minecraft? What is it that makes it a good MINECRAFT story?

id pay good money for one with a print date prior to this video.

I feel like "worth _less_ than the sum of its parts" applies here...

Why are you bringing nft scammers into this? This video and the scam literally have nothing to do with them.

@@captainszasz5836 it's.. it's a little thing called a 'joke'

Wouldn't be surprised if the author behind these scam books is also an NFT worshipper.

It really is. I hope Retro bands together with the other 11 victims of the scam and sue the author.

that'd be one of the greatest blunders ever

@peace wtf?

@@puffer4909 just a bot

@@VirgoShelter seems fitting that a scamming bot is putting comments on a video about a scamming bot copying videos for books😂

Thats exactly what is happening. I know when i was in first grade my favorite color was "pink" and this resulted in a few too many gifts that were blatantly from the girls section, so i started saying "red". Far too many people think giving a child any random hunk of plastic of a certain dollar value counts as an adequate gift. I know my parents had fights with my extended family over the obsession some of them had with gift giving when they are unqualified to get a decent gift. And i think that describes the target of the scam "unqualified gift givers" because even a child would be put off by Grian's "S7E2 as a book" when they already watched the episode and the text is so inaccurate, and the Author not being "Grian" should be a dead giveaway. Edit: spelling/grammar

@@jasonreed7522 As a Hermitcraft fan myself, I would be furious if I got a crappy ripoff Hermitcraft book that doesn’t even have proper grammar or any consent from the actual hermits at all. I feel so bad for anyone that could have gotten one of those books from someone who looked at it and said “oh it’s Minecraft related I’ll just get it for them”

@@catphin8495 Especially since the Hermits have all collectively agreed that they won't do any Hermitcraft branding. Mumbo for Mayor shirts? Sure. Barge shirts? That's a Grian Original! But a Hermitcraft such-and-such, and hey it's got bells? No. If an actual Hermit did that they'd be removed from the server, if I'm not misremembering Xisuma's video on the topic.

The world English being misspelled and automated being capitalized are the only mistakes

Yeah that's the only rule they're actually breaking. You really think you have a "copyright" on a free RU-vid video of someone else's videogame? Lol.

@@bradthunderpants3283 this is far too nuanced for someone who calls themself lib smasher sixty nine but the answer is it depends on whether the video is derivative or transformative which would be determined by a court. commentary and let's plays in general are transformative, so yes the video creator would gain copyright of that video, not the video game creator, however it would depend on the video people make millions off of let's plays without paying licensing fees to video game copyright holders because the video is considered its own work with its own copyright

@@bradthunderpants3283 sh

@@bradthunderpants3283 well yeah? even if the youtubers didn't have copyright of their videos because it's of someone else's game, all the same copyright infringement against the video would still apply, just infringing on Minecraft/Mojang/Microsoft's copyright instead of some random youtuber that probably doesn't have the money to bother fighting it in court.

@@bradthunderpants3283 That’s exactly how it works, each video is edited and overlayed with various individual edits and commentary. The content may be originating from Minecraft, but the creator is doing commentary and adding value. You sound like you’re not very knowledgeable on this subject, consider doing research

I took an intro to graphics design for high school, didn't pay attention, and failed. Yet still I'm 100% confident I could do much better xD

As an amateur artist with an egregiously simple style, you're completely correct.

I promise you that the school powerpoints i used to make in school looked better than this

Bold of you to assume the cover isn't computer generated

i kinda want to try making one tbh. just for fun.

Yeah right? It's pretty awesome

He's gonna be a detective in real life about books that stole him being a detective in minecraft

hmm yes, the villager here is made out of villager

I legit had a stroke trying to Read that phrase

I was laughing so hard that I fell out of my chair and now I think I broke my back.

me when i go to a villager outpost and kill a villager captain

Me when villager

Burning books has a negative connotation because of nazis, sure there wouldn't be anything wrong with burning your own property but they said they aren't angry so I suspect they won't burn it.

I've thought about making a coffee table book where each page has like a diagram of a theory (or part of one). I think it could work really well

@@RetroGamingNow absolutely, that would be awesome for kids, adults and graphic novels!

havent popped in my head, but i think a book as a limited time product for christmas or something would work well

@@RetroGamingNow Get on it! I would definitely love to see theory books on my bookshelf

@@RetroGamingNow do I have to read it with a tinfoil hat on?

"alright now let's do this!" *picture shows an almost black fade transition between a zoom-in on a mob and a half-built wall

@@strawberrana Off topic but hello fellow volume beta enjoyer

I mean, I could understand if they made his POV of 3rd Life/Last Life into a book (though fanfic sites like AO3 and Wattpad already got that covered), but most of the videos that got turned into books are, as you call them, just normal letsplays.

@@tatianah.a9307 it would be pretty funny if they just stole a fanfic lol -cuz I bet the probable chaos generated from the incident would be quite fun to watch xD-

@@dinowaffles1317 If they stole a fanfic they would have decent grammar

Yep, pretty much.

the thumbnail is probably automated too judging by it not being the right image in a lot of cases and all of them having overall the same format

Stealing someone's property is very illegal

Or wandering traders selling you literal weath seeds for emeralds

dirt for a full inventory of block of emeralds

is it as criminal as the villagers raiding the villagers

How about Piglin lighting you on soul fire for giving them a gold ingot?

Additional note, I'm from South Africa anddd... We don't use Amazon. Maybe some importers here and there but rarely anyone has ever used Amazon, most have never even visited their site

@@Lance_Tonkin98 Leaving a "review" saying that the author stole the original work is a big brain move

Lemme' help you friend if it's still up, Imma flame the author with a hella bad review

@@braydenbanks4228 don’t portray yourself as a stan

@@jacobpugpoirier3350 Guess what, dillweed?! I was already planning on submitting that review before reading that comment, stop acting like you're the comment police, because people hate backseat moderation worse than white knighting, or as you so crudely put it "portraying myself as a stan."

Yeah, sometimes things like this make you realize that all of that self-doubt you had about something was just Imposter Syndrome. Keep going at it, with more time and practice you'll get more experience and your writing will improve. Just don't be afraid and don't worry if you didn't write a Shakespeare, nobody else except Shakespare has done it and besides, even the greats have to start somewhere don't they? Anyways, I don't know much about writing, but I hope that you get to do what you want and achieve success!

I can say your books are way better that this dogwater in the video, and that without even buying yours in the first place.

The way you could make some REAL cash is if it goes from text to video

@@RetroGamingNow I'll make it go both ways.

@@RetroGamingNow CaryKH made a video on something similar

@@RetroGamingNow look up carykh I’m pretty sure they published a video on this

@@RetroGamingNow see, this is what onlyfans feels like

This is an interesting idea. I've thought about how it would be cool to have a coffee table book with some diagrams from my theories. I think it could work really well.

@@RetroGamingNow That's actually an awesome idea. DO IT!!!!

@@RetroGamingNow I mean, I'll gladly be your first customer. I'd love to get some to donate to our local library so that your tales can reach a whole new audience of Minecraft fans. Some with certian types of sensory processing disorders can experience pain from just listening to talking and watching camera movement, but they still love Minecraft and they want a way to participate in the hobby. This is an excellent way to make your content more accessible. Besides the obvious upsides, you'd also have a clearer way in copyright striking those shops. Any lost revenue recoup from those shops can be donated to charity, since their money might as well be stolen. Now I think about it, this could likely help people looking for refunds as well. 🤔 Did I do good here? I feel like I did. 😁

@@RetroGamingNow YES! Do it

Agreed

Looks like it!

Nice

Ey

@@RetroGamingNow sue the guy.

@@RetroGamingNow You must gather the other 11 victims of this scam and sue the author. Big time

Lol same, I was worried looking at the thumbnail

LITERALLYYYY

OMG BRUH

but not only that, there is also some bamboo behind grian😮😮🤯🤯

@RetroGamingNow bruh I'm a professional hacker, and I'm friends with like 20 other professional hackers. I can track this guy down to his Ip address and tell you it.

@@projectsw3649 DHCP

I wonder about this. I have a suspicion that these Minecraft scams are just an example of a much deeper and more elaborate publishing scheme. I'm keeping my eyes open.

The problem isn't really Amazon. They're just a medium of exchange. Trying to claim they are liable for anything is stupid because. Well, they're just a store. Unless the store does something wrong like tampering with a product, you can't hold them liable. It's like saying that, a mouse you find in a load of bread, that no one would notice if they didn't open and check the bread, is the stores fault. It's not, it's the producer of a product who has to ensure that product is good, and didn't. The people who should be held responsible and the only people reasonably able to held responsible, then, are simply the people making this.

@@linhero797 I'd agree if it was an item someone published themselves and listed on the marketplace. In this case Amazon physically printed the book and registered the ISBN on behalf of the "author". They're both the publisher and the store.

@@linhero797 your mouse in a load of bread analogy is nowhere near being comparable to this and I'm sure that you yourself realize this. A better analogy is if a toy store actively listed a minecraft toy that wasn't made by Mojang. This doesn't have anything to do with the general quality of the product, this is a matter of blatant copyright infringement. That is something that Amazon is definitely responsible for vetting and it's literally against their very own terms of service. That, along with what the other person said, yes man, Amazon is indeed part of the problem here.

@@ermwhatdaheck My Analogy doesn't make sense cause. You missed the point. The point is. A store, is a third party, unrelated to the product assuming they are not related to the creation of the product. (Something I was unaware about Amazon originally) Because of this. They don't have to do the kind of things someone like a Publishing Company has to, such as ensuring no copyright infringing materials and such aren't in their products. They COULD. But they don't HAVE TO. They operate on a different set of rules because they are different kind of business. But nevertheless. I do admit I was wrong because I was unaware that Amazon was the printer, and effectively publisher, of these books.

Says who? For all we know there are millions of youtubers are still being ripped off like this...

@@Player-jh4ko copyright laws

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BkTj2ZOZbws.html Yes fax :)

@@Ado_Edem Copyright laws are a slippery slope tbh...

@@Chkprofilename we need to bring awareness to this idiot who spams this youtube link

Hmmm extortion you say? Sounds kind of illegal... In all seriousness though the guys who make this auto generated crap would be very hard to sue and win. First, you don't know how they are because they are using fake names. Second, and probably the biggest reason, they most likely live in a country that doesn't acknowledge US or European copyright laws. If both those cases turn out to be untrue sue the hell out of them but you need substantial damages I'd imagine to get a subpoena for their info from Amazon.

Maybe true