Current Events > Donkey Kong legend Billy Mitchell Sues YouTuber for recording without consent.

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https://games.mxdwn.com/news/cheating-scandal-continues-as-billy-mitchell-sues-youtuber-apollo-legend/

Apollo Legend, a YouTube content creator for the speedrunning community, likely had no idea what he was getting himself into when he first covered the questionable history and laughably inaccurate scores of Todd Rogers, one of the most famous video gamers of all time. Rogers was heavily favored by Twin Galaxies, an organization that was historically the gatekeeper of all video game records, and Apollos exposure of their conduct made waves on the internet. However, anyone who knows Twin Galaxies likely knows about Billy Mitchell, a similar character to Rogers with a similar relationship to the organization. Mitchell famously played the villain in the King of Kong documentary, which traced the controversial history of the Donkey Kong high score recordand insinuated some extremely dishonest behavior on his part, and that of Twin Galaxies. With the previous piece being so successful, Apollo set his sights on proving that Mitchell was about as honest of a gamer as Rogers was.

Again, Apollos video spread quickly, and Mitchell once again entered the spotlight as one of gamings greatest heels. Needing the last word, however, Twin Galaxies themselves reported a rumor that Mitchell will now be pursuing legal action against Apollo for recording him at an arcade event in Fort Lauderdale, FL. The crux of the argument is that Apollo illegally obtained audio and video recordings at the event without consent, which he is currently making into another video expos. However, as fellow speedrunning YouTuber EZScape points out, Florida law covering recording consent makes exceptions for in-person communications obtained somewhere without a reasonable expectation of privacy, such as a public eventpotentially even a meet-and-greet at an arcade.

lol makes me wonder how Dawkins was able to do this.
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Billy Mitchell is a cheater whose records need to be stripped.

Judge is gonna laugh, say he was a cheater, then throw him in jail
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MrTacoBell posted...

lol makes me wonder how Dawkins was able to do this.

Different laws, and he was recording private phone calls.

Judge is probably gonna say "omg who gives a fuck"
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Mitchell didn't even "cheat", he just used MAME

AlphaCuck posted...

Mitchell didn't even "cheat", he just used MAME

Which is cheating.

Darkrobotisback posted...

Judge is probably gonna say "omg who gives a fuck"

I found out about this from reddit and the consensus there is the youtuber is fucked. He was wearing a wire to secretly record billy and apparently that is a felony in Florida. I should note I don't like Billy and enjoyed the youtubers video on Billy just sucks he is going to be in jail for a while.
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I'm pretty sure Dawkins wasn't cleared of wiretapping. It was just placed as inactive so North Carolina could go after his CP charges.
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AlphaCuck posted...

Mitchell didn't even "cheat", he just used MAME

No he cheated. The youtuber in OP explained it well in his video.
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He looked mad suspicious in that documentary.
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He looked like such a fucking tool in King of Kong. I hated every person in that documentary.
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AlphaCuck posted...

Mitchell didn't even "cheat", he just used MAME

I believe he had some humanly impossible RNG on point drops or something like that, meaning he cheated and rerecorded while using MAME to record. The original video form Apollo explains it all, IIRC.
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He can have a pity party with Todd Rogers
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Alucard188 posted...

He looked like such a fucking tool in King of Kong. I hated every person in that documentary.

Even Steve Wiebe? Steve seemed like a cool guy who got robbed. They kept giving him a hard time verifying his scores.
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I guess he didn't want to be recorded cheating lol.
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Yeah, but Billy Mitchell is a douche, though
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