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Nintendo In War With Zelda Youtuber Over Multiplayer Breath of The Wild Mod
Nintendo has been recently been throwing copyright claims left right and centre and many of these have seen one popular creator see around 28 claims on videos related to Breath of the Wild and even other Nintendo titles. Youtuber Attacked By Nintendo Eric “PointCrow” Morino recently shared how he had…
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Monster Energy is Attempting To Bully Indie Dev Over The Name of Their Game
Monster Energy is reportedly attempting to take an Indie Dev to court for using the word Monster in the game’s name. Monster Energy Attacking Monsters & Mortals Indie Developer Vincent Livings who is the Founder & CEO of Glowstick Entertainment has made a tweet claiming that Monster Energy is threatening…
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Bruce Willis Becomes First Major Actor to Sell Their DeepFake Rights!
Update – Bruce Willis’ agent has since issued a statement denying that the actor has actually sold his deepfake rights. – We’re looking into this further and will provide an update should more detailed information appear online. Following his diagnosis of aphasia earlier this year, the chances are exceptionally likely…
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Scammers Accused of Uploading Copyrighted Movies Just to Blackmail Downloaders
Piracy is a crime, and downloading copyrighted material or using it without the owner’s permission, as I’m pretty sure that the vast majority of you know, is against the law. This is, incidentally, no judgment of any of you who do involve yourselves in such activities. It’s just a fact.…
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Club Penguin Fan Remake Shutdown with UK Police Currently Holding Website!
I never once visited the official Club Penguin website. And even if I wanted to at this point, I’d have a hard time considering that following their purchase of it in 2007, Disney shut it down in 2017 (with a largely unsuccessful attempt to move people onto a mobile version).…
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Twitch Expected to Start REALLY Clamping Down on TV Show Streams
Over the last few years, a new and contentious trend has been seen on video streaming platforms such as Twitch and YouTube. Known as ‘reactions’ or ‘watch parties’, a number of users started streaming unedited (please remember this keyword!) copyrighted material, such as TV shows and movies, under the guise…
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GTA Modders Issue Countersuit Against Take-Two Citing ‘Fair Use’
One of the most notable precursors to the release of the GTA Trilogy was the fact that Take-Two Interactive had definitely kicked things into a new gear when it came to the game’s modding community. Put simply, masses of mods were taken down amid a flurry of DMCA claims and…
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Bowser Pleads Guilty To Nintendo Piracy Charges
Team-Xecuter was (formally) a group that looked to make money by selling software and hardware information related to various Nintendo products. An action which, as you can imagine, didn’t win them many friends with the tech giant. Therefore, it was not entirely shocking when various members of the group were…
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Moviemakers Sue VPN Provider for Promoting Piracy!
The chances are that many of you reading this probably already know what a VPN (Virtual Private Network) is, and more specifically, what it does. For those of you unaware, however, the short version is that through routing your internet access through various proxy servers located all around the world,…
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Guinness Issues Mass SMB Speed Run Copyright Claims
I must admit to being a pretty huge fan of competitive speedrunning and among the various games on offer, runs of the original Super Mario Bros. game will always be some of the most popular. It seems, however, that Guinness World Records is currently on something of a warpath. Following…
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YouTube Is Reportedly Suing A Copyright Claim Troll
It’s well known that despite its popularity, YouTube has a number of problems. One of the biggest is regarding how it polices its copyright claims. It honestly isn’t too much of an exaggeration to say that practically anyone could put a copyright claim in against a video and, with varying…
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New YouTube Guidelines Could Result In More Takedowns
YouTube has a long-standing problem with copyright claims on their videos. Many people who use the video hosting site often have problems when obscure or even only 3-4 second long audio clips get copyright claimed by Sony, BGM or some other huge corporation. It’s a hugely frustrating point to the…
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EU Parliament Approves Article 13 Copyright Laws
EU Approves Meme-Killing Law When it comes to our social media platforms, we often openly encourage our fans to respond to our news/reviews with memes or gifs. It is, after all, a rather fun way to express your opinion. This sharing of images/video, however, has been under threat for some…
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Star Control Origins Pulled from Steam Due to DMCA Notice
Star Control Out of Steam Star Control Origins has been hit with a DMCA takedown on Steam and has now been pulled off sale. The claim is from Paul Reiche III and Fred Ford, two creators of the classic DOS games and are in an on-going dispute with Stardock, the…
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Fan Made Enterprise-D VR Recreation Pulled After C&D Issued
Fan Made Enterprise-D VR Recreation Pulled After C&D Issued There are very few people out there that don’t like Star Trek The Next Generation. Yes, admittedly, there are some episodes that are much better than others. There’s an early episode in season 1 that is actually best forgotten. Overlooking the…
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