To begin with, it's certainly not true that all businesses handle account terminations in the same way. Yes, there is certainly standard language which is common in most terms of service documents, but there isn't anything which is universal, and there are often differences.
Also, PG did not receive a notification from Mega as to why his account was terminated. He was only informed that it was terminated. The email from Mega telling him that his information was being forwarded to NZP was received after he appealed that termination.
Well, not all businesses have terms and conditions, but certainly most do. But it still matters what is put in an email. This matters for many reasons. Not the least of which is that businesses are staffed by people. These people may sometimes take actions which are not strictly according to the company's policies, and those actions often stand, despite not being entirely within the rules. Examples of this aren't hard to find. How many people have had their Facebook accounts or YouTube accounts suspended or demonetized when they hadn't broken any terms of service? Plenty of people, that's how many.
Also, when you receive an email from a service provider which contains legal or procedural language, you shouldn't dismiss what it says as simple copy pasta. Sure, it may be that the email was mistakenly generated, but it may also be that it was intentionally generated because actions are being taken against you or your account. Anyone who receives such a communication should at least take the second possibility into consideration.
All of this is entirely academic, however, because, as I said above, PG
did appeal his Mega suspension, and
that is when Mega notified him that his information
had been forwarded to the authorities.
There are a few different points to address from this paragraph.
- Yes, if PG's information was passed on by the NZP to his local law enforcement agency, that agency would have opened an investigation. They would certainly have visited his Patreon and SubscribeStar pages and his Discord server. It is also likely, though not certain, that they would have visited this thread and the corresponding threads on other game sharing sites. It does not in any way follow that PG would already have heard from the police. Law enforcement agencies often take many months to assemble a case before they take action. Just as an example, look at the recent arrest of Westy in Australia. He was arrested in August, but the investigation was begun in May, months before. Sometimes investigation go on for a year before any charges are brought.
- Yes, it's true that, if PG's local police did open an investigation, and did decide that "Oh, this is nothing", then he will never hear another word about it. They aren't going to notify him that they opened an investigation into him and then closed it. They'll just move on to other investigations, and PG will never even know that he was investigated in the first place.
- How many people reported PG is completely irrelevant to law enforcement. They won't care that it was just one person, instead of a hundred. They won't care that this one person reported the links because he was pissed off for stupid reasons. The only thing they will care about is whether the content in PG's game violates their laws, and whether or not they can build a case to prove that. They don't care how they found out about it.
- You are incorrect in assuming that only "real life content illegal content like photos, videos, and stolent IDs" are actionable. This is entirely a question of the laws where you live. Once again, take the example of Westy being arrested. He was arrested for creating an entirely fictional game with Daz renders - no photos or videos and no real people were involved - because the content he created is illegal in Australia, where he lives. Content which is perfectly legal to produce in the US may be illegal in Canada. Content which is legal to produce in Spain may be illegal in Italy.
