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If one can DMCA a launched game, what would stop me from torpedoing a launch of an AAA title during the first few days after launch? I could do millions in dama

• haspok 8y ago
  This was not a lonely teenager sitting alone in his room trying to hack an "AAA" title, this was ordered by court, as a legal action as part of an ongoing case that's been going on for some time.
  • anjbe 8y ago
    To be precise, the DMCA takedown wasn’t ordered by a court, but rather, a preliminary injunction (from Stardock) to prohibit such a takedown was rejected by the court. https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.320268/gov.uscourts.cand.320268.102.0.pdf https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.320268... Gem of a quote from the order: > …The harm Plaintiff complains of is indeed of its own making. Plaintiff had knowledge of Defendants’ copyright claims from the outset. Despite that knowledge, it developed potentially infringing material without resolution of the IP ownership issues, and then publicized the release of that material during the pendency of this action. It now claims that its investment in Origins and reputation are on the line. Given that Plaintiff largely created the foregoing predicament, the Court is disinclined to extricate Plaintiff from a peril of its own making.
• hnbroseph 8y ago
  i believe the dmca has provisions for handling wrongful filing. you also would be committing a form of fraud.