BTS Fan Twitter Account Attacked By Copyright Claim Team

The Twitter account of fans of the K-pop group BTS was attacked by a number of people. (photo: Twitter @bts_bighit)

JAKARTA - The Twitter account of fans of the K-pop group BTS was attacked by a number of people who claimed to have copyright claims. With headers, profile pictures and tweets on their accounts just disappear.

One BTS fan account that has 233,000 followers said that the perpetrator was on behalf of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), by giving notice of the removal of all content on the account.

The backlash from fans resulted in the hashtag #TwitterMaliciousDMCA trending worldwide yesterday. The owner of the BTS fan account often posts videos, photos, and memes related to the South Korean band.

They also claim that the original header and profile picture, as well as several tweets including their own screenshots and memes, have been taken by trolls over the past few weeks.

But citing The Verge, Friday, November 19, the attackers have described in their posts on spoof websites such as headers, profile pictures, photos and videos that they took from fan accounts and claimed to Twitter that the images were theirs.

The group claiming to be behind the attack calls themselves Team Copyright, and claims to be based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The group also has a group Facebook page full of screenshots uploaded, showing its members are responsible for various copyright takedowns.

It doesn't stop there, the group's page is also full of threatening and discriminatory posts, they will destroy the toxic fanbase and criticize BTS for promoting atheism and homosexuality.

Other popular BTS fan accounts affected by Team Copyright include @bts_worldwide, @charts_k, @btsvotingorg, @bts_trans, and @taehyungpics with their profile pictures and headers all subject to copyright claims.

Even so, they didn't stay silent on creating a second account, but seem to be getting copyrighted again, where tweets from the reserve for the German fan base are currently suspended, while the group's main account has replaced the header with a blank color.

Infuriated by this, fans all over Twitter have sprung up to report the group's page to Facebook, and Twitter, which they claim to be fake as Team Copyright, and flooded Bangladesh's foreign minister with tweets. Despite these efforts, the Team Copyright page is still active today.