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Three YouTubers Sue Apple Over Massive Video Scraping

7/3/2026

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  • Three U.S. YouTube channels—h3h3Productions, MrShortGame Golf, and Golfholics—sued Apple in the Northern District of California for alleged DMCA violations.
  • The complaint says Apple bypassed YouTube’s protections, scraped millions of videos, and profited.
  • Apple contends the videos are public, its access follows the DMCA and YouTube terms, and it has asked the court to dismiss the case while the plaintiffs have also sued Meta, Nvidia, ByteDance and Snap in separate actions.