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From the whispers we've heard about Riot Games over the years I entirely believe this is their corporate SOP for shutting down unwanted fan projects. That bein

From the whispers we've heard about Riot Games over the years I entirely believe this is their corporate SOP for shutting down unwanted fan projects. That being said if I were in their shoes I'd shut down immediately, put up some angry screed on the project's website, and disappear off the Internet. If someone from Riot's actual legal team wants to demand destruction of source code or whatever, let them do the extra PI gruntwork. Of course I'm also the kind of person who's massively shied away from fan projects precisely because there are people who not only do not appreciate them, but are entirely willing to legally prosecute you far beyond just shutting down the project and clearing the market. Why? I dunno. There's a weird school of copyright morality that wants to equivocate any kind of infringement with forcible rape, especially with regards to fan projects. It's like some sort of weird dual to toxic fandom. (It does not help that certain fan scenes, notably Melee, are full of actual sex pests. I still consider it a false equivocation.)

Klonoar 6y ago
>(It does not help that certain fan scenes, notably Melee, are full of actual sex pests. I still consider it a false equivocation.) It's odd to cherry-pick Melee here: "full" is a very strong description to use, and fairly inaccurate - Melee's community tends to kick those people out once they're found out about, unlike some other communities. The majority of recent issues with regards to this were also (alarmingly) in the Smash 4/Ultimate community, not Melee's. Just because they're both Smash games doesn't make them the same community.
- kmeisthax 6y ago
  Sorry, that was just the first competitive scene to come to mind. It certainly isn't inherent to competitive Smash or even the fighting game community at large to be full of sex pests, it just so happens that a lot of them have found such places to be an unfortunately comfortable niche to hide in.
  - somethingor 6y ago
    So in other words, Melee is not notable?

Klonoar 6y ago

>(It does not help that certain fan scenes, notably Melee, are full of actual sex pests. I still consider it a false equivocation.) It's odd to cherry-pick Melee here: "full" is a very strong description to use, and fairly inaccurate - Melee's community tends to kick those people out once they're found out about, unlike some other communities. The majority of recent issues with regards to this were also (alarmingly) in the Smash 4/Ultimate community, not Melee's. Just because they're both Smash games doesn't make them the same community.

kmeisthax 6y ago
Sorry, that was just the first competitive scene to come to mind. It certainly isn't inherent to competitive Smash or even the fighting game community at large to be full of sex pests, it just so happens that a lot of them have found such places to be an unfortunately comfortable niche to hide in.
- somethingor 6y ago
  So in other words, Melee is not notable?