Gaming Tech Culture US Copyright Office denies DMCA exemption, deals blow to video game preservation efforts Preservationists can try again in 2027 when the DMCA is up for review By Skye Jacobs, October 27, 2024, 12:26 PM 8 comments
Gaming Industry Activision awarded $14.5 million in lawsuit against Call of Duty cheat maker EngineOwning must also hand its website to Activision By Rob Thubron, May 31, 2024, 6:55 AM
Gaming Tech Culture Nintendo DMCA lawyers shut down everything Mario on Garry's Mod Some Nintendo add-ons have been around of nearly 20 years without being bothered By Cal Jeffrey, April 25, 2024, 3:47 PM 14 comments
The Web Gaming The New York Times issues DMCA takedown requests against Wordle imitators The Times bought Wordle in 2022 By Rob Thubron, March 8, 2024, 8:19 AM
Gaming Tech Culture Nintendo's updated social media guidelines target modified games, leaks from data mining Nintendo constantly finds new ways to annoy people By Rob Thubron, October 26, 2023, 9:58 AM 11 comments
Tech Culture The Web The UFC, NBA, and NFL ask the government for "instantaneous" DMCA takedowns of illegal streams The leagues say processing current DMCA takedown requests takes too long By Rob Thubron, August 30, 2023, 6:57 AM
The Web Google A single company asked Google to delist almost one billion "pirate" web pages in less than a year A takedown spree against a streaming site abusing PornHub content By Alfonso Maruccia, August 8, 2023, 11:55 AM
The Web Netflix and Amazon send DMCA takedown requests for legal websites Two perfectly legal URLs hidden in a sea of pirated content By Alfonso Maruccia, June 19, 2023, 10:02 AM 10 comments
Google The Web Music company wants Google to delist a Wikipedia page about YouTube rippers Overstepping the mark a little? By Rob Thubron, May 29, 2023, 5:18 AM
Gaming Tech Culture YouTuber fought back against Nintendo DMCA notice and won For once, someone had the guts to tell Nintendo where to go --- lets see if it holds, though By Cal Jeffrey, January 3, 2023, 5:13 PM 17 comments
Gaming Industry Take-Two slaps GTA VR modder with vague DMCA takedown notice What do you want T2? I got mods, I got tutorials, I got walkthroughs, tips and tricks. Pick something By Cal Jeffrey, July 7, 2022, 2:23 PM 11 comments
The Web Tech Culture YouTube is doling out copyright strikes on Destiny content and nobody knows why Bungie says, 'Don't look at us. Our content is being flagged too.' By Cal Jeffrey, March 21, 2022, 11:31 AM 10 comments
Gaming Industry US Copyright Office grants right to repair video game consoles as long as only the optical drive is broken The good news is the exemption applies to any other 'software-enabled' device without restriction By Cal Jeffrey, October 29, 2021, 2:29 PM 19 comments
Software YouTube sends Groovy Bot Discord music app DMCA takedown notice The five-year-old bot will shutdown at the end of August By Cal Jeffrey, August 25, 2021, 1:31 PM
Software Microsoft Microsoft sends DMCA takedown notices to sites sharing Windows 11 Proving its legitimacy? By Rob Thubron, June 21, 2021, 7:05 AM 27 comments
Software Twitch's Soundtrack app lets streamers play background music without getting a copyright strike Live listening is okay, but recording is not, so this app keeps the background music separated from the stream By Cal Jeffrey, September 30, 2020, 3:34 PM
The Web Twitter disables video in Trump retweet after copyright complaint from Linkin Park The rockers aren't fans of the president By Rob Thubron, July 20, 2020, 8:35 AM 27 comments
Gaming Epic added a mute toggle for new Never Wanna emote YouTubers and streamers were getting hit with copyright claims By Cal Jeffrey, February 24, 2020, 1:54 PM
Industry Security Extensions to DMCA exemptions allow security researchers to continue doing their job Whitehats are safe from being criminalized for another three years By Cal Jeffrey, October 30, 2018, 2:12 PM
Gaming GitHub removes repository containing Game Boy Advance emulator at Nintendo's request If you want to play Game Boy Advance titles, buy a used GBA By Cal Jeffrey, July 24, 2018, 5:11 PM 12 comments
Gaming Project that remasters Fallout 3 as a Fallout 4 mod canned over voice acting rights Mod team has not completely lost hope, but future looks bleak By Cal Jeffrey, March 14, 2018, 2:32 PM 13 comments
Mobile Software Spotify issues warning to users of 'hacked' apps Spotify has also issued DMCA takedown requests to GitHub and XDA By Cal Jeffrey, March 6, 2018, 7:36 AM
Tech Culture Gaming Game companies do not want us preserving their abandoned online titles Should games like City of Heroes just be forgotten and allowed to die? By Cal Jeffrey, February 20, 2018, 4:14 PM 14 comments
Gaming Valve says it has the final say on DMCA takedowns regarding DotaTV ESL VP Ulrich Schulze: "There will be more discussion around this" By Cal Jeffrey, January 26, 2018, 5:15 PM
Gaming Industry Renewed proposal seeks DMCA exemption for 'abandoned' online games Could this mean the resurrection of City of Heroes? By Cal Jeffrey, December 22, 2017, 5:05 PM