Stolen Recording by webinartv.us

Yes, they are continuing to do this.

Here is an analysis from CyberAlberta (Canadian provincial government): https://cyberalberta.ca/zooming-out-webinartvs-rampant-scraping-of-online-meetings

Use of external AI summary tools by participants is a major vector for allowing them to do the screen scraping. Watch out for fireflies.ai and similar tools. I would like it if Zoom implemented an option to disallow any such tools in a meeting/webinar.

We’ve just had the same thing happen to us, same email address Sarah Blair. So after 4 months on this thread it appears the Zoom have yet to resolve it. So we are putting our experience here too. We did not record our meeting, on purpose due to GDPR and confidentiality reasons and government officials being in attendance too. We had a registration link set up so people only received the link if they registered. We used AI companion to capture a summary for the organisers and nothing else. We had 133 people registered and from across the UK, it’s not possible to only allow people in that you know as when the audience is for a professional group which has wide reach. The screen scrape is worrying when we didn’t advertise publicly. Would really like to know what’s being done about it or what measures Zoom can put in place. 

We want to send a formal letter to a formal address for Webinar TV. Does anyone have a physical address or phone number or a registered agent for this company? Thanks

Dear Zoom Team,

I understand that when an unauthorised person uploads our content on their website, it is out of Zoom’s security scope. Recently WebinarTv.us did this to one of our webinars. What surprises me how did they get my Zoom registered email address, because we didn’t reveal that email to anyone in the webinar. How is my Zoom Registered Email Address reaching them?? How are they emailing us?

• No, this issue is not “Solved”. Just this week, we had a meeting infiltrated and secretly recorded by WebinarTV. A person or bot from WebinarTV registered for our meeting with a fake first and last name and an email ending in .space. I know now who it was, because this person did not engage, which is not entirely unusual in our meetings. (People can be working or driving while the meeting is going on, or just don’t feel well enough to participate, but they want to listen in). The only reason I found out is that I was missing an email invitation on a totally unrelated topic and went looking in my spam folder where the email from “Sarah Blair” was found. The meeting has apparently been deleted from their website, but the recording probably still exists somewhere, no?
  
  While I understand this isn’t necessarily a technical failure on Zoom’s part, I will consider it an incredible betrayal of the customer base if Zoom fails to make a PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT calling out WebinarTV by name and denouncing its practices of stealing content and making secret (and probably illegal) recordings of meeting participants. The content theft is awful - but the secret recording is even worse.
  
  Kimberly, GDATF

We’ve had this happen too… the disturbing thing is they have a webinar that we stopped recording after the first 15 seconds because we didn’t have the permission of the speaker to record! I’ve sent an email to WebinarTV but haven’t heard back… Plus, thier AI hosts(I’m assuming AI) provided some misinformation. So frustrating.

We have had two webinars scraped by WebinarTV as well as a meeting which we did not even record. I enabled the waiting room for this meeting and did not allow the use of any outside transcription tools, so I don’t even know how they scraped it.

I have written to WebinarTV demanding they remove these webinars and they have not done so. I have also submitted a DCMA form to Google but nothing has happened.

For more information on this type of scraping,  visit the Cyber Alberta website:

https://cyberalberta.ca/zooming-out-webinartvs-rampant-scraping-of-online-meetings

Thanks. I have seen this article and it’s very good. “Sarah Blair” is not a human? That is so creepy.

Check the site - search for your webinar.  When I searched for ours, I found our thumbnail still appears with our logo and an active link - that goes to a “this webinar does not exist”.   BUT  they are capturing data from the clicks and emails of those who are trying to click the link.