TAPE shows receipts, says YouTube account is its own

Television and Production Exponents (TAPE) Inc. on Tuesday reiterated that it did not hack the YouTube channel of “Eat Bulaga,” saying that it owns the account.

Over the weekend, TVJ Productions' legal counsel Enrique Dela Cruz said they will file legal action against TAPE over its access to the account.

In a statement, TAPE said that it “cannot hack its own account.”

“TAPE is the owner of the account and YouTube's record confirms that. As per YouTube's record, the account's detail states that tape is the registered owner of the account, the administrator was its former employee, Therese Angeli Diaz and the monetization payee is TAPE, Inc. also,” it said, showing images of receipts.

TAPE continued, “From here it is clear that Ms. Diaz merely made the account for and in behalf of TAPE. Thus, when she resigned TAPE has to assign a new employee as administrator of the account via board resolution to be submitted to YouTube.”

Screenshots from TAPE, Inc.

TAPE added that YouTubers know that “if you are the owner of the account then you should be the registered owner and you are the one receiving the monetization thereof. We have documents to prove this.”

Earlier, TAPE announced that it had regained access to the channel, which had been inactive since Tito Sotto, Joey De Leon, Vic Sotto, and the rest of the former "Eat Bulaga" hosts left the company in May.

However, Dela Cruz said TVJ Productions finds this news "disturbing" and that TAPE previously did not have access to the channel.

"The owner of the YouTube channel is the owner of the email used to register it. It is not TAPE. That is why they never had access to this account," he said. — Carby Basina/BM, GMA Integrated News