Home Videos This Banned Streamer is Suing Twitch

This Banned Streamer is Suing Twitch

by devaccess



Do any of you remember PhantomL0rd?

Well, way back in the day, PhantomL0rd, or James Varga, was a relatively popular CS:GO streamer. And then, he got banned. Allegedly because he was running a rigged skin gambling site.

And then, years later, he sued Twitch.

Now, that’s all pretty standard knowledge at this point, but last week, a judge ruled that PhantomL0rd’s contract with Twitch was “unconscionable” and that he’s entitled to sue for a lot more than we thought.

Edited by: Jason Durante (@JayJay_Durante)
Hosted by: Daniel Rosen (@Daniel_Rosen)

Footage courtesy of:

Willy Wonka clip courtesy of: Warner Brothers via Yoshitsumi

Phant0mLord clip courtesy of Phant0mLord via: REE DDS

Follow us on Twitter:
Follow us on Facebook:
Follow us on Instagram:

Music used under license from Associated Production Music LLC (”APM”).

source

Related Articles

35 comments

Wuusta Vong October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

Nice combover

Reply
Xaust October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

But lootboxes are basically gambling

Reply
Rambam 7 October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

Greedy- Ya make over 5k a month, but you gotta run shady gambling shit?
Some people can never have enuff

Reply
Triatari Ascari October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

PhantomL0rd is a crook, the law just hasn't caught up with video game gambling but IMO he should be locked up.

Reply
N E W October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

“Not the hero we needed but the hero we wanted”
-someone 2019

Reply
Hot Dogs October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

Cut the hair bro

Reply
Azzter Eris October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

I hope Twitch Tv lose the case, i hate them to the guts

Reply
Yojimbo413 October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

This douche and his ethot

Reply
M S October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

I remember winning a 1000$ skin bet on bubble which I still have till today a few hours before Valve installed the trade update, good times

Reply
BraxTer October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

Tattoo of his first million dollors? Holy shit, can i work there?!

Reply
Jugi October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

I hope that douchebag burns. He was in the wrong and now his lawsuit is getting some life on a technicality. Shouldn't happen.

Reply
Juggernog Addict October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

?

Reply
DmK u4 October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

PhantomL0rd was the biggest idiot on the Twitch platform, this guy should be banned from the internet all together!

Reply
thekamotodragon October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

i still remember scammerlord, we all made a concerted effort to make sure he could never upload anything online again without hate, it's what he deserves, and now you're telling he's going to be making more money using the money he stole from thousands of children? like he scams thousands out of their money, gets away with it, and gets to just bounce and live a wealthy lifestyle, then use that money to hire a good lawyer team to make him even more money from the company who rightfully banned him….. shouldn't it be against the law to use stolen money to defend yourself? also you guys really undersold how much of a douche this guy was, ik it's 3 years old but still, you can't just be out here agreeing with actual scumbags.

Reply
meow October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

wtf is wrong with ur left eye?

Reply
yonen October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

%?

Reply
Chip eater Man October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

Can we raid Twitch HQ and ban Alinity?

Reply
snooze October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

one word, handcuffs

Reply
Premium Fruits October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

He's an idiot. This will never hold up in a real court. Whatever lawyer he's allegedly talking to is scamming him. About the intelligence I would expect from someone who ran a gambling scam on a video game.

Reply
Greatest Ever October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

Why is this guy lying to himself he’s balding

Reply
eskimo. October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

If I remeber PhantomL0rd? I was there when history was written young grasshopper.

Reply
MeiZZy Fremewer October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

The hair was better at the start of video bro

Reply
Josh M. October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

?

Reply
David K October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

The name of the video should be This Banned Scamer is Suing Twitch.

Reply
Christopher Mauro-Barias October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

imagine being rewarded for conning a game.

Reply
Apokat October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

"cs go streamer" AHAHAHAHAHAH

Reply
Sketchbag October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

DUDE ur combover is repulsive*

Reply
z0mbiezak October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

What people aren't understanding about this is when PhantomSn0re was banned, the CSGO gambling scene was dying off. Speaking subjectively, but the only reason he was making 5-10k on Twitch was because people were watching him gamble. I've never met anyone in my life that said they liked watch PhantomSn0re… They only talk about how he ripped people off with his gambling site.

Look at a streamer like m0e… He was big into the skin gambling, and would stream it. Once the skin gambling died off, streamers like this lost A LOT of viewers. When you lose viewers on Twitch, you lose potential subs, donos, and skin donos. You go from having a 5k view count, down to a 500 view count (and that's being generous considering how unwatchable PL was).

Not to mention, with streamers like this, they would have contests on their stream to give away skins. When you lose viewers due to skin gambling dying off, you lose income. When you lose income, you're less generous, as you have less to give. He may, or may not have been trade banned for breaking ToS being one of the larger individuals involved with this. I can't recall having ever checked.

Reply
Kirk Exequiel Badillo October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

What Twitch should be sued for are the immoral and double-standard practices, as well as the dumb baseless shit they impose,/pursue towards their streamers and communities.

Reply
Mitsuo October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

lol old news

Reply
Saeko94 October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

Miss the times he played Karthus or yelled at Nunu and stuff like this..

Reply
E K October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

Enough with the grandfather comb over, accept you are bald.

Reply
Iz L October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

Equating banning a large streamer on twitch to writing a doctors note for an absence is inadequate. Try writing a notice for suspension/expulsion.

Reply
Ninjamaa '3' October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

Title is like people dont know who phantomlord is

Reply
Iz L October 7, 2019 - 5:17 am

Cut your hair, please. The swoop is embarrassingly bad at this point. Great content as always.

Reply

Leave a Comment