Colorado YouTuber Christopher “Denver Metro Audits” Cordova filed on Friday a second lawsuit based on his “Another Chad Exposed!!! Worthless Denver Cops…ASSAULTED!!!” which he had previously registered with the United States Copyright office.
The new lawsuit was filed as a John Doe case as Cordova was unable to ascertain the identity of the owner of the Destination 2Truth YouTube channel, which Cordova alleges used large portions of Cordova’s registered video in blocks of nine minutes and thirty-nine seconds, eight minutes and six seconds, and nine minutes and forty-five seconds.
According to Cordova’s complaint, he issued a YouTube take down notice for unauthorized use of the registered video on June 13, 2025. YouTube took the video down on June 16, 2025. He had not received a counter notification from the YouTube channel as of the filing date of the lawsuit.
The Destination 2Truth channel seems to have been abandoned back in 2022, though it has a “Familia TV” logo. YouTube’s removal of the single video on June 15 is reflected in their Social Blade stats, along with a loss of 1,294 total channel views.
The main Familia-TV YouTube account itself, which uses the FAMLIA-TV username, removed five videos on Sunday, which accounted for a loss of 38,127 total channel views according to Social Blade. It is unclear if the removals were related to takedown notices.
The removal of videos by YouTuber Frauditor Troll was also at the center of a motion filed by Cordova on Saturday in his on-going lawsuit against the YouTuber. Attorney Randall S. Newman, acting on behalf of Cordova, asked the court in the Northern District of California to issue a preservation order based on Frauditor Troll purging his channel of videos since receiving notice of the lawsuit.
Social Blade’s report on Frauditor Troll’s main channel indicates that he removed 1,703 videos since being informed of the lawsuit. This accounts for a loss of 53,002,084 channel views.
While the video at the heart of Cordova’s complaint had previously been believed to have been removed by YouTube, according to Newman’s filing, the video itself was removed by Frauditor Troll during the purge.
Cordova himself addressed the filing in a livestream on Sunday.
During that livestream, Cordova said that Frauditor Troll actions were “not the action who believes their videos are fair use.” He then stated that Troll was openly purging his channel of previously live videos, accounting for 90% of the videos on Troll’s main channel.
Cordova assured his fans that he would be registering the copyright on other videos in his playlist and that more lawsuits would follow based on those registrations. He also claimed that he had heard that YouTuber Liberty Troll was also about to file a suit of his own against an unspecified party for alleged copyright infringement.
The Denver area YouTuber said that his lawsuits were not about silencing criticism but about protecting his work from unauthorized reuse. He said that while he often gave permission to others to use his work, he did not grant permission to use large blocks of his work without transformative commentary.
Cordova stressed that he felt that previous legal rulings have stated that simply adding insults to a video before airing large uninterrupted portions of his work was not enough to justify a “fair use” claim of his work.
Addressing critics, Cordova ended his livestream with a defense of his close relationship with his mother during his livestream. He said it was perfectly normal for his mother to drive him to jail last year after being found guilty of crimes related to an audit of a social security administration building in 2022.
The YouTuber indicated that he was working on a documentary in relation to those charges and did not believe he was guilty of the crimes he of which he was convicted.
Cordova’s lawsuits have resulted in other noticeable purges of YouTube channels within the anti-auditing community. This includes recent actions by Doctor Dave, a close associate of Frauditor Troll.
Doctor Dave has removed five videos in the same time period as Troll’s purges, resulting in the loss of 23,909 channel views. It is unclear if this was part of the YouTuber’s normal channel operations.
Cordova said that Frauditor Troll actions were “not the action who believes their videos are fair use.”
No, those are the actions of someone who has a lawyer, telling him what to do. His videos, are now down. If FT loses, he will have limited his damages. If he wins, he can put them all back up.
Unlike, deleting things from my computer, taking things off YT does not destroy them, it merely means that they are no longer viewable. And they are just getting around to the preservation order now?
That shows just what a half mast operation this is. If you sue, you demand at the start the preservation of what you are suing for or you collect it first and sue later.
This is amature hour, but fear them here they come.
Wait, didn’t we see this a few summers ago when chilli went all nuts as well?
Now to sue someone they don’t know who he is and has not posted in three years…
They have a plan. Clever. Fight someone who won’t fight back so they can get an easy win before a judge and then use that win to attack others.
Hopefully, they get a judge who knows copyright and bounces them out of the court.
Otherwise, this is just another slimy grift, not that anyone will be surprised.