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Absolutely excellent!

Wow... it only took about two and a half years for this form to appear. I guess better late than never, but I've noticed people's accounts getting hacked left and right since the middle of 2007. It hasn't happened to me, but it's happened to so many other people it's not even funny...

Thank you, Google.  I filled out the form and at least have a little more hope now.  I've been frustrated and heartbroken since my account was hijacked last week.

Please help me regain control of my account so I can get rid of the nasty spam overlays a squatter has implemented ... and so that more videos can be posted.  I love my account and just want it back.

This gesture is a step in the right direction.  Please help.

Patrick Tillmann
kingcutie@aol.com
http://www.youtube.com/kingcutie

Thank the lady upstairs for small mercies!  Much needed, very much appreciated!  :)

That form worked.  Once Google / YouTube see that your account has been compromised and actually correspond with you, they really are helpful.

I'm back in!  Thanks, everyone!!!

My faith in humanity has been restored.

Patrick

Well lets see if they will actually help us, youtube team say a lot of stuff but do so little......

My Youtube account name is "Hassanalhajry" and i have no access to the account (The account is online) and resetting password doesn't help too it says password is wrong even if i reset it 10 times.

I have access to the registered email address AND the Google account for this youtube account but still i cant access the youtube account which is online since it says your password is wrong all the time

It seems that there is someone else that have linked their youtube account to my Google account which resulted in all this drama and made me lose access to my own account

@mightylions1  -- I don't think you need to ask anyone for permission, so long as you aren't misrepresenting yourself by claiming the video is "official" or endorsed by YouTube. 

You're perfectly free to make a video on any topic you choose, and can expect to keep it live as long as you take care to keep it legal.

@ HassanAlHajry..  Did you use the form?

I can't speak for YouTube, but I find it hard to imagine they would object to such a use, given that it's a clear a case of fair use as I can imagine.  If they objected to that, they'd have issued DMCAs months ago for all the screencaps I've posted to Flickr illustrating various things related to functions, bugs, etc.  But, stranger things have happened... proceed at your own risk, as the saying goes.

I'm fairly sure the "Call for submissions" is legit.

@ebbixx thanks.  Oh, and btw YouTube, you need to put an option on the hacked account form to check off if your hacked account is suspended (if the user that hacks your account loads questionable content on your account and then flags it to get you suspended).  That has happended to many users recently.

Glad I found this form (thanks ebbixx). It wasn't easy to find though, I was going in circles in the help pages for a while, till after a search on the forums I decided to just post it there.

Anyway, hope I can get my account back. No idea what the hijacker wants with it anyway, if I had the slightest idea youtube accounts were interesting to hackers I'd have been more careful with it.

When is the password going to be sent, how long did it take each of you? Heh, I'm a little impatient sorry. But I really want my account back. LOOK. Here is my hacker:

You have to use the support@youtube.com email.  Respond to the e-mail sent to you.  If your account was hijacked, you have to have Google / YouTube reset it from the inside, as the hacker changed the e-mail address your account is associated with.

Alrighty, I sent the Email. Thanks.

My YouTube account "urapony" has been hacked. I sent in a recover form for my compromised account a few days ago and am still waiting. I need it back before they do anymore damage. Please, hurry. Thanks

vilathapuram

Please use the form, aside from possibly reporting identified phishing accounts, nothing will happen to reports made here.  You need to use the form that Liz referred to in the original post. 

If you run into problems with that form not working, be sure to report those, but all personal abuse issues should be reported in private through the forms provided, if at all possible.  You'll find most of those forms somewhere in http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/request.py?contact_type=abuse

For compromised accounts, the link to the form appears near the bottom of this page:

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=175276

Reporting personal abuse and safety issues here usually results in at best, nothing, and at worst a troll fest. 

YouTube assumes everyone posting here is at least 13 and able to take responsibility for their actions, whether or not that's actually true.

TO LIZ = youtube support - hi=i cannot put into words my disappointment at the conspiracy off collusion and underhandedness rife within youtube/google - it borders on, if not actually is, criminal, as spoken of by my solicitors when trying to resolve certain matters. My a/c was deleted on 7 Jan this year - no reason given at all even tho i asked various depts many times. Now, one of my main issues amongst others, is my viewing figures. For example, this video of mine here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwE_TJn0rNU shows 9 views {or thereabouts} as of 9-3-10, yet i know of at least 19 people who have viewed it, as i am in a group and all watched it seperatly as part of a project. ALL my viewing figures are extremly low and completly incorrect and inaccurate, and which completly differ from my previous a/cs figures of the same videos, and i put this down to interference by google employees with abhorrent behaviour directed personally at me. One figure i can name is a character by the name of landtat. a level 4 youtube personnel, who along with others has made sure my a/c is kept as unpopular as can be. He even initiated as much in a conversation in the youtube help forums, details on request. I just wish this discrimination would stop, or i could take legal action, which i can assure you i have tried as far back as 2 years ago, when i got nowhere after reporting death threats to my person, to which google/youtube showed acute indifference.Such is the way things are = particularly sad and completly unacceptable....butlincat

i am loathe to give my present a/c name as recriminations arent worth it, even tho landtat knows what my name now is, and even told me that he now knew my name, which opened the door for the abuse against me i spoke of in my previous message here, after i foolishly revealed it.....b.

Landtat is not an employee.  The only employee who posts here, with a few well-marked, rare exceptions, is Liz.

You're right to be extremely cautious about revealing personal information though, since anyone in the world with access to a computer and a connection can read this forum and/or comment on or stalk any user they choose to, often at low risk of being exposed or prosecuted.  Because it's based in the US, YouTube and Google have very limited interest in or ability to censor users without also escalating their own legal risks.

There are many risks you expose yourself to by sharing videos with the general public.  It would be wise to keep that in mind.

@ butlincat -- on the viewcounts you might want to rethink how you're using tags and also the lack of detail in your descriptions.  I doubt, given the tags you're using, that you're getting many search matches at all when your most common tag for the video you mentioned is "NIGHTWATCH"

I filled out that form a few weeks ago and haven't gotten any feed back even notifying me that they're working on the situation..

it not youtube/googles business policy to notify somebody whos a/c is deleted? i wrote 12 times to youtube etc when my a/c was deleted on 7 jan this year,yet received no reply. I notice ive received no reply from "liz" either, tho i do not expect one from anybody connected to youtube. I report on the illuminatis crimes, and i also report on the actions of paedophiles within the governments, etc. I know my life is at risk as are many of my friends who have been attacked not only physically, but by being given cancer, as in the case with somebody called the "anonymous physicist", who they want to shut up very much. Many others have already been killed because of what they have exposed/revealed, so i am very well aware of these maniacs.For example since i found out about the Hollie Greig sexual abuse case on a Downs Syndrome girl i have sent hundreds of emails asking for help to over 60 lords in our house of lords, tv cos, major newspapers and hundreds of other "notables" and recerived but 2 replies, such is the scale of the cover-up.Needless to say the paedophile ring contains top policemen, a High Sheriff in Scotland, social workers, nurses, top lawyers etc. Pls google HOLLIE GREIG if you think im fantasising or mad. And see David I ckes vids on the gross paedophiles within Scottish parliament, and the UK parliament too.Of course i realise by writing to lords in the parliament im writing to certain paedophiles in some cases, but with this case growing daily the media blackout will soon be overcome by the sheer weight of numbers of concerned citizens who are sick of the people we put in power committing these crimes on children.,and i fully expect any a/c i have anywhere to be closed at anytime,as has already happened,or i expect to be attacked either verbally,physically,spiritually or any other method they choose......b.

I also noticed in a few of your videos I looked at that you seem to be using copyrighted music.  If you're not paying attention to copyright claims for your channel (and it must be quite a task with so many videos in one channel) that could also be the cause.  Not that anyone can tell you for sure.  However, with so much material, it must attract a lot of negative attention that could include privacy complaints and many other forms of complaint, which could range from well-intentioned to deceptive to plain malicious.

YouTube is unlikely to comment, the same as they are unlikely to comment on any other policy or admin decisions they make.  And the rest of us will only  be speculating.  I know I don't have the time to watch all of your videos unless you're willing to pay me a good wage rate in advance.

Copyright is complicated, and it's only become moreso since YouTube came along. 

Bootlegs themselves, for instance, are technically illegal in many cases, but on the other hand, they're probably some of the least likely recordings to get nailed for infringement unless someone who objects comes across them manually, since those who made them have no legal grounds to complain about infringement on an infringing recording, and those who do have grounds have a lot of hurdles to clear to confirm beyond a doubt that the recordings are infringing too. 

Think about how many videos there are on YouTube, and add to that the fact that the Content ID system was added at least a year or two after YouTube started accepting uploads...  Where would anyone find the time to go looking and checking for audio that may or may not have been used with the proper permissions?  Since most of the policing is largely automated, there's lots of room for missing things and also for identify things wrongly.

It's inevitably a big mess, and I wasn't mentioning that to find fault with you.  Just as one example of the risks you (and practically everyone else) faces.

There's a lot of honest confusion among creative, well-meaning people about what is and is not legal, and following the herd may have seemed like a reasonable approach, but unfortunately the law does not provide exceptions for those who don't understand the law, even when the law itself is tangled, complicated and often very confusing.

As for Landtat... he's not YouTube personnel, if by that you mean an employee of YouTube.  Any conflicts you may have with him are and probably should remain private and between the two of you.  If you think he or anyone else is taking some illegal action against you, you should probably consult a lawyer, or the proper legal authorities.  In most cases though, the simpler and cheaper choice is to block and ignore anyone you think is harassing or threatening to harass you.

I'm not sure I can get through to you on the tags issue.  Like you said, I only looked at one video and you may be using tags effectively elsewhere.  What I saw though, were two "compound" tags that I find it hard to imagine will ever be searched for by anyone.  But if you look at your insight statistic you may discover I was mistaken.

I would suggest looking at and using Insight statistics to see how people are finding your videos, and to think about ways to improve their visibility, if visibility is your main concern.

i can imagine its complicated, and as for this landtat character, if u look at my other discussions youll see his anti-social comments regarding me, and his veiled threats...i ceased communicating with him after as i couldnt bring myself to....and theres a particular vid made on him and his boyfriend gay chums from someone else hes obviously taken nasty liberties with too...simply put landtat in the search box and itwill arrive...b.

@BLOOMIXANA- looks like you have a password problem due to YouTube and Google account linkage, not a problem with someone hacking your account (which is what this thread is meant to be about).  Can I suggest that I answer you "on topic" over on this thread of yours:  http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=40e8972a7afd460d&hl=en ?

Well that sounds alright except "hacked" is more appropriate. "Hi-jacked" lol That's so noobish to call it that. I admire the noobish qualities though sometimes. 

My account "urapony" was Hijacked about 2 weeks ago. It wasn't closed until 2 days ago, and I sent in a recovery form long before. This service is horrible and is really frustrating. Since YouTube hasn't been replying, my YouTube account has been closed.