Activision Fights 'Call of Duty' Leaks With Subpoenas to Reddit (gizmodo.com) 29
Gizmodo shares the saga of a now-deleted video claiming to show Call of Duty's new "battle royale" mode:
The YouTube video, initially posted by a user who goes by TheGamingRevoYT, was slammed with a copyright claim and ripped from the platform. Meanwhile, other gamers noticed that Reddit posts and Twitter threads even mentioning the upcoming release were being taken down for "copyright infringement." Last week, when one Redditor found a leak of what appeared to be the cover art for the new game, that got hit with a copyright claim too — and some other legal action. According to court documents obtained by TorrentFreak, Activision has spent the last week actively subpoenaing Reddit to uncover the identity of the Reddit user who leaked the initial artwork...
It's worth noting, as TorrentFreak points out, that there wasn't technically any "infringing content" posted to the thread itself — just an external link to a site that hosted the image in question.
It's worth noting, as TorrentFreak points out, that there wasn't technically any "infringing content" posted to the thread itself — just an external link to a site that hosted the image in question.
Okay then... (Score:2)
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Locally run? (Score:2)
Wait, you mean that there's still code running locally on your game machine ?
I kind of expected from these shitty companies that by now most AAA games were going to be mostly streaming online and you're expected to be paying a recurring monthly fee in order to keep receiving the data stream...
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Why? That would be helping them sell more copies of the game and giving them free publicity and advertising.
Much better than providing a torrent would be ignoring the game entirely.
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Why? That would be helping them sell more copies of the game and giving them free publicity and advertising.
Much better than providing a torrent would be ignoring Activision entirely.
I'm sure they mostly want the name. (Score:2)
Whoever it is, they're likely never working in the industry again.
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I heard his name was S{#`%${%&`+'${`%&NO CARRIER
Perl 1-liner (Score:2)
I heard his name was S{#`%${%&`+'${`%&NO CARRIER
Oh, thanks: your 1-line actually fixed a bug in a large Perl project I had... :-D
Vote with the wallet (Score:2)
The reason vendors show this aggressive behaviour is that people still buy their games. The aggression brings no consequences.
If gamers boycott their games and make it clear that they will not tolerate such behaviour, then the behaviour will change.
Vote with the wallet and the results will amaze.
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Because the last boycott for Call of Duty worked so well ... /s
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Worked pretty good for me. Saved 70 smackers. Went outside and got a sunburn. Bonus.
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They do this for the publicly, ohh ahh, we need to be secure with a super you beaut game, it's not just another lazy rehash of what was already there but now with more pay to win. Of course that is what they really want to keep quite on, the pay to win elements and loot boxes.
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Of course that is what they really want to keep quite on, the pay to win elements and loot boxes.
And they don't want reddit making fun of them for jumping on the battle royale bandwagon 2-3 years late.
How is this not perjury? (Score:2)
If it's just snippets of gameplay no fucking way copyright applies.
Of course if they posted it themselves and then made a strike against themselves, there is no risk to get challenged.
the real question is... (Score:2)
Spoiler alert (Score:5, Funny)
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Great, now Activision lawyers are going to target Slashdot to learn your real name so they can sue you into oblivion for that obvious copyright abuse.
I hope that works for Activision (Score:3)
It's common sense that fighting the internet will get you nowhere, it's a lot bigger than you think.
Ripped (Score:3)
slammed with a copyright claim and ripped from the platform
As a software developer, I'm curious from a technical standpoint, how the content was "ripped" from the platform? Is it akin to having a linked list and you delete a node without updating the pointers to it? Sounds brutal.
Streisand effect (Score:1)
And here children we have a company deliberately and with malice aforethought trying to cash in on the Streisand effect. The last company that tried to do that was the Ultra Evil Sony corporation -- the one that spread viral rootkits and malware all over other people's computers, yet not a single executive of Sony was prosecuted, imprisoned, or hanged for their deliberate hacking of protected computers.
Fuck You (Score:1)
It's news, and reporting on it is protected by the 1st amendment.
If I gave half a shit about this game I would be downloading and reporting everything everywhere.
Let them fucking sue me. I've got more rage and time than I know what to do with. I'll fucking see you clowns in court, if you ever dare to take it that far, and I'll get my verdict and my costs.
Another thing we can go without... (Score:2)
is activision and childrens online daycare (COD). It's 2020, if you played a single COD game over the last two decades, you've played them all.
Copyright ? (Score:1)
So the makers of a software product has the copyright to everything you create in it ?
Where is the difference between a game and Microsoft Word and PowerPoint ?
What I write in Word, or how I move in move around in a virtual world are both direct result of my actions. The Microsoft spell checker does change my output though. So they clearly should have copyright of all documents written.
Can some adult judge please step in here. Common sense must prevail, even in the US.