Sega Lawyers Demand “Immediate Suspension” of Steam Database over Alleged Piracy
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#2Today I learned that 2021 Sega is still in business. Sad to see them devalue themselves and simply become another patent troll.
Re: Sega Lawyers Demand “Immediate Suspension” of Steam Database over Alleged Piracy
#3> Efforts to contact SEGA have proven fruitless but hopefully the company will eventually notice its mistake and withdraw its demands for SteamDB to be taken offline.
Highly unlikely, good luck with that.
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#4Today I learned that 2021 Sega is still in business. Sad to see them devalue themselves and simply become another patent troll.
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.
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#5A 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.
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#6Aren't they reacting wrong to the DMCA complaint?
Shouldn't Cloudflare have some form where SteamDB could state "we don't infringe on your copyright" and then it's up to SEGA to take this to court?
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#7Today I learned that 2021 Sega is still in business. Sad to see them devalue themselves and simply become another patent troll.
Sega was the top ranked publisher of 2020. They aren't a patent troll at all.
https://www.pcgamer.com/sega-is-metacritics-top-ranked-publi...
Re: Sega Lawyers Demand “Immediate Suspension” of Steam Database over Alleged Piracy
#8Aren't they reacting wrong to the DMCA complaint? Shouldn't Cloudflare have some form where SteamDB could state "we don't infringe on your copyright" and then it's up to SEGA to take this to court?
Hire some lawyers, have them send a letter back that says "no" surrounded by a lot of words and wait. It'll either resolve itself or they'll win in court, either way is okay.
Re: Sega Lawyers Demand “Immediate Suspension” of Steam Database over Alleged Piracy
#9Today I learned that 2021 Sega is still in business. Sad to see them devalue themselves and simply become another patent troll.
Sega has had a lot of top tier games in recent years.
Re: Sega Lawyers Demand “Immediate Suspension” of Steam Database over Alleged Piracy
#10Today I learned that 2021 Sega is still in business. Sad to see them devalue themselves and simply become another patent troll.
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?