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Sega has had a lot of top tier games in recent years.
Which ones? I see a bunch of remasters of old games, but few top tier titles in the past 5 years.
A false DMCA takedown is equivalent to perjury. If SteamDB were to counter-sue Sega, Sega could be punished for perjury, forced to pay SteamDB's lawyers fees, and potentially lose their copyright on the content they claimed was violated.
Has anybody in the history of the DMCA ever been successfully convicted of perjury for misusing it?
The difference between theory and practice is that in theory, they are the same thing.
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Representatives were supposed to scale with the population so that one rep could reasonably represent all of the people in their district. There are tons of ways to restructure the US legislative system that would ameliorate the current problems -- uncap the number of reps, allow individuals to override a fractional vote of their rep, split representation into technocratic branches and let everyone vote for a differe…
This totally makes sense. The US House is about 1000 (or more) members short.
I think this would be the best approach
Players of PSO2 (an MMO game) will tell you that SEGA is notoriously improbable to get a hold of, and they don't respond much beyond automated messaging to issues re: bans. A couple friends were banned erroneously via an automated purge of around 10k+ players. Their customer service was stone silent. Randomly with no communication, one of their accounts was back online after a couple months. It's worth mentioning tha…
Battle.net allows names that are banned by Activision, and when logging into COD it was automatically imported, banning my account.
A false DMCA takedown is equivalent to perjury. If SteamDB were to counter-sue Sega, Sega could be punished for perjury, forced to pay SteamDB's lawyers fees, and potentially lose their copyright on the content they claimed was violated.
> A false DMCA takedown is equivalent to perjury. Has anybody in the history of the DMCA ever been successfully convicted of perjury for misusing it? The difference between theory and practice is that in theory, they are the same thing.
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I believe for all of the above to apply, it would have to be proven that the request was knowingly malicious, as in they had full knowledge that the page did not infringe but decided to send a takedown notice anyway. That's highly unlikely, and good luck proving it anyway. However, they are still liable and can absolutely be sued civilly for an improper takedown notice. But the penalty probably wouldn't extend beyond…
They were informed by the victims that they made an error and proceeded anyways. Their inability to route that information to the right person should not be a valid defense or else incompetence becomes a business advantage.
I don't mean to sound trite but hasn't it pretty much been proven to be already?
Look at things like the Equifax situation. A competent team performing security reviews and fixing and maintaining things would cost money. Repeat for N data breaches. And that's just software security -- it doesn't consider even more serious cases like those of infrastructure failures (bridge collapses, levee failures, dams breaking etc.) that have more important consequences.
I agree with what I believe was the main point you were making which is that SEGA should not be excused here. I just think businesses have come to view competence as being expensive and so it's optional, and that this seems to be somewhat okay with people until it directly affects them.
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Which ones? I see a bunch of remasters of old games, but few top tier titles in the past 5 years.
The entirety of the Yakuza series is absolutely fantastic, especially the latest entry (Yakuza: Like a Dragon).
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This has nothing to do with patents. They're not trolling, which is generally registering something and sitting on it waiting to sue. Sega is a practicing entity with a copyright on a game that's actively being sold. Someone's made a mistake in this DMCA complaint and Sega's being difficult to reach to resolve it. It's nothing like patent trolling.
> it’s nothing like patent trolling Sega has army of lawyers and probably massive budget for court fees vs a small 2 people run shop who are actually not infringing anything and don’t have any of those resources. You get where this is going?
Yes, it involves legal paperwork and the claim is empty. So why not call it a MAGA election suit? It has two things in common with those.
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They were informed by the victims that they made an error and proceeded anyways. Their inability to route that information to the right person should not be a valid defense or else incompetence becomes a business advantage.
> Their inability to route that information to the right person should not be a valid defense or else incompetence becomes a business advantage. I don't mean to sound trite but hasn't it pretty much been proven to be already? Look at things like the Equifax situation. A competent team performing security reviews and fixing and maintaining things would cost money. Repeat for N data breaches. And that's just software s…
In a just court, that argument would be thrown out. But courts aren't always just, unfortunately.
I think that until the USA gets rid of legal lobbying from interest groups (aka, legalized corruption), this kinds of things will keep happening. Having to pull content down without any order from a judge is nonsense. These companies would be more careful if they had to go through some legal process instead of just ordering their lawyers to send empty threads to people that can't financially afford the economic burde…
How do you propose a group of 50,000 people interface with their elected congress critters? Individual email? A chosen spokesperson to 'lobby' their interest? If an individual company chooses one employee(say someone with a legal background) to interact with an elected official is that person a lobbyist or an employee? I'm not sure what you're suggesting.