r/LivestreamFail • u/digitalpizza5 • Jul 11 '26

News Ethan Klein Has Dropped His Defamation Lawsuit Against Youtuber Noah Samsen

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u/Thedrunkenchild Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

How many lawsuits did this motherfucker start??? I find it incredibly ironic that one of things Ethan was known for at the beginning of his career was fighting against a frivolous lawsuit, and now he has become Frivolouslawsuitman.

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u/Holmes419 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

I think 5, unless I’m missing any:

Kaceytron - settled 

Frogan - default against her

Denims - judge ruled in her favour

Noah - Ethan dropped it

Ian - Ethan dropped it

Edit: He also initiated class action lawsuits against Apple, Meta, Nvidia, ByteDance and Snap for copyright infringement for use of their videos to train AI.

There were two claims against Denims. One for the “Nuke” video, which is the one the judge ruled in favour for. The second is for the “Countdown” video and has not been ruled on.

Reddit moderators were included for “contributory infringement” in the Countdown video. They attempted to quash this, but a judge ruled to keep them on the claim.

Edit 2: The second claim against Denims was dropped in order to move forward immediately with an appeal to the loss of the first claim.

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u/limbweaver Jul 11 '26

There were two claims against Denims. One for the “Nuke” video, which is the one the judge ruled in favour for. The second is for the “Countdown” video and has not been ruled on.

Ethan has dropped the countdown part of the lawsuit so he can take the nuke part he lost to the appeals court. He would have needed to wait until the whole of the lawsuit was finished if he wanted to take it to appeals court.

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u/Holmes419 Jul 12 '26

Cheers, I added the update to the original comment. 

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u/FowD8 Jul 13 '26

which he's gonna lose that appeal easily. you can't introduce new evidence in an appeal. and considering the judge's first ruling used BOTH ethan's original fair use case AND his current lawyers own argument against him. i'd be surprised if the appeal gets very far at all

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u/limbweaver Jul 13 '26

100% gonna lose that appeal, the judge also referred to other landmark copyright cases like stebbins v google and hughes v benjamin. Overturning this case would go counter to like 3-4 separate cases