City-Builder Taken Off Steam After Fan Goes Rogue

Re:City-Builder Taken Off Steam After Fan Goes Rogue by Rebelgecko on Sunday February 19, 2023 @12:13PM (#34859532)

If this attorney is filing BS DMCA claims, hopefully they'll give a gentle heads-up to his local bar association

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Re:City-Builder Taken Off Steam After Fan Goes Rogue by kevin_thibedeau on Sunday February 19, 2023 @12:35PM (#34859759)

Youtube takedowns aren't DMCA requests. There is no legal penalty for perjury. It's just a good old fashioned mob shakedown. In this case neither party is even subject to US law so even more irrelevant.

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Re:City-Builder Taken Off Steam After Fan Goes Rogue by roughly on Sunday February 19, 2023 @12:37PM (#34859777)

FTA:

> Matters have now escalated to the point where the game itself has been taken off Steam due to a DMCA request, and the player is “now claiming that they own the rights to the [realistic] game mode”

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Re:City-Builder Taken Off Steam After Fan Goes Rogue by kube-system on Sunday February 19, 2023 @12:53PM (#34859973)

YouTube has an internal system for handing requests apart of DMCA but videos may also be taken down from YouTube via a DMCA request per law. “Takedown” is a word often used interchangeably for a video taken down via either method.

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Re:City-Builder Taken Off Steam After Fan Goes Rogue by Rebelgecko on Sunday February 19, 2023 @01:09PM (#34860158)

What about Steam takedowns?

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Re:City-Builder Taken Off Steam After Fan Goes Rogue by yeahbutiguess on Sunday February 19, 2023 @04:44PM (#34862168)

Steam responds to DMCA, as far as I'm aware, and doesn't have a separate process.

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Re:City-Builder Taken Off Steam After Fan Goes Rogue by anigbrowl on Sunday February 19, 2023 @02:57PM (#34861195)

Institutional remedies which require years of process for abuses that can be carried out in seconds or minutes are fundamentally inadequate.

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Re:City-Builder Taken Off Steam After Fan Goes Rogue by lazyasciiart on Sunday February 19, 2023 @05:06PM (#34862340)

A bar association can remediate pretty quickly if it chooses to.

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