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1. Upload a video to YouTube, 2. Make it non-public, but possible to view for people who have links, 3. Post it to some shady underground forum full of people who want to do bad things to you for money, 4. Build the net of connections and track people who did watch the non-public link, see who knows who in this degenerate world of extorsions and theft, 5. Send the message to criminals that if they want to continue what they're doing, then even YouTube isn't safe for them, 6. Profit.

TBH, if the above would be true, I would even be happy. But I'm biased, because I sincerely hate thieves and extorsionists.




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