1/🧵 In this #threadstorm, I will summarize the below video about how a false DMCA strike led to a game being taken down from Kickstarter. The video will be linked below in the comments.
1/🧵 In this #threadstorm, I will summarize the below video about how a false DMCA strike led to a game being taken down from Kickstarter. The video will be linked below in the comments.
2/🧵 You can find the video here and it's the perfect Streisand Effect.
3/🧵 After Callum made a video wondering if a kick starter was a scam, he got a DMCA strike on his first day of vacation. It makes you wonder why you DMCA an obvious fair-use video.
4/🧵 After digging in with the help from other people, it appears that the game Magic to Master is just a private server of an existing game called Metin 2
5/🧵 The person behind the Kick Starter has already lost a lawsuit for the same thing and was required to pay $600,000.
6/🧵 After this story grew bigger, the publisher Gameforge behind Metin 2 found out about it and they have taken down the Kick Starter and their youtube channel.