IMFDB Youtube account?
 

Theres a Channel on youtube with the username IMFDB. Is this an actual IMFDB page or is it just some guy who choose to be named "IMFDB" and favorite gun movies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_3FFThpkyg

You mean this?

It seems to imply that the site is a star but uses words like "Violent movies" and "is showing the most showing of guns in the theater since Lincoln's assassination."

Ummm...I don't know if the site should be flattered or insulted.

There are other videos that does link IMFDB. But I don't see an actual channel with IMFDB

I mean this= http://www.youtube.com/imfdb

The reason I bring this up is we don't want people posing as IMFDB who are not IMFDB.

Well since it is void of real vids or any detailed information or even a link to IMFDB, I have no idea what it is

Not official, just some dude.

explain this.
i randomly looked up a video about berreta m9's and this little prick was there
sharing knowledge, i think they're related: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II_X2nVwbp8

It's a bad thing when some kid poses as a representative of all of us. He doesn't speak for the site. And I as a veteran user/mod don't think very highly of people who hijack our name. If he acts like a total dick on the web, people will think he's affiliated with THIS site.

I think we SHOULD make our own Youtube profile to set the record straight

Well if the IMFDB has any copyrights or trademarks then we could send the little bastard a cese and desist notice.

I mean since he is spouting garbage and pretending to be us then lets send out some form of legal notice that such impersonations are not kosher.

Ever since Google bought YouTube, they've been totally anal about copyright claims. If somebody made a complaint, they'd probably shut this imposter down with no questions asked. :cool:

Do it, then get someone responsible to start up the Youtube channel. That guy's going to be pissed though

Since Bunni controls the site, we should let him do it and have some of the admins have the password to change things and put things up on it.

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Posers are at it again, Nothing real harmful but still....

If you can't find it edit>find>IMFDB

http://www.firearmyourself.com/firea...ct-review.html

http://crystalmind.com/newsdesk/deja-vu-part-4/

Maybe a notice should be posted that the only place that IMFDB operates is the actual IMFDB website....

2 years later and we still haven't squashed this.

http://www.youtube.com/user/IMFDB/feed?filter=2

Well Bunni really owns the site. If he hasn't taken action, we can't do anything about it.

I've just bumped into this user on Youtube again. Apparently he's been busy making comments to a lot of vids. I know this is the age where comments come and go but anything this guy writes down can potentially reflect badly to the site

Which is why we need to do something about this.

I actually tried talking to the guy and he's really defensive about it. Here are the responses I got from him.

"
I don't see how my latest comments are related to ur website. I prefer actually giving people tips about equipment and techniques that actually work in harsh adrenalized environments while ur website mostly sticks to identifying guns without any life saving reputation. I no longer see a point to identifying guns in movies. I've moved on to a realistic and applied area of weapons manipulation as should you.

My intention is not to pose as your website official. I'd rather not have any irresponsible user take the name and tarnish ur websites impression on the gun community. U should consider urself lucky an irrational kid doesn't have this account name.

I'll clearly state to them that I don't have any affiliation with you what so ever as I've been doing for the last year. Trust me I've seen the replies. Only 1% off people that reply to me recognize that website. It's not like ur name has a trademark of gets me thumbs up on my comments.

"

Yeah, this guy's a bit annoying.

Yeah, he sounds like a moron...

Well at the very least like you said earlier we should probably look into making a placeholder channel.

But it's kinda hard with this guy using it

So call it "IMFDBOfficial" or something similar.

There are ways around some jackhole squatting on a domain name.

The other thing you can do is lodge a complaint with youtube. It probably won't do anything but its at least worth a try.

What I don't really get is that if he really isn't trying to masquerade as us, why in the world did he choose the name "IMFDB"? There aren't any other websites or organizations that use that acronym that I'm aware of.

I know, but it's just weird. He says just using the name of our site is like me using the name Excalibur.

Obviously Excalibur is open domain. No one has a claim on the actual name.

So again, I inquire with this youtube channel that claims to be us and this was his response.

"Improve, Adapt, Overcome. Accept things what they are, and move on."

So has anyone taken it up with Youtube yet?

And who is this guy? Disgruntled user?

What the hell does that even mean?

I just reported him. Anyone else who wants to should. The more people who complain the more likely something will happen.

Had dropped my own complaint as well

I think the only complaint that matters is Bunni's. As the legal face of IMFDB, he's the only one with a dog in this fight.

Don't think he actually cares.

Bottom line, it isn't like the site has plans for a Youtube channel. Unless someone wants to take the time and effort to make vids about the site. Most likely any "copyright" videos we post on youtube will be taken off. I'd suggest us making a BlipTV account if we plan to make vids about the site using copyright images