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posted by janrinok on Tuesday February 05 2019, @07:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the novel-twist dept.

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Indie game developer Ammobox Studios has sent Steam a DMCA takedown notice for its own game. The company says that it was forced to take such a drastic measure after the publisher stopped making payments. While it's an unusual step to take, the takedown notice achieved the desired result.

[...] "Long story short, we had to file a DMCA against our very own game on Steam to wrest it off the Publisher. The DMCA has just kicked in resulting in the game being taken off the Steam Store Page," Ammobox explained.

Both companies had a publishing agreement, but this was breached according to Ammobox, which notes that no payments were made for the sales of their game on Steam. Without a publishing agreement, the publisher would indeed violate the DMCA, transforming the previously legal copy on Steam into a pirate version. While this isn't a typical takedown notice, it certainly had the desired effect.

The game was removed from the store for over a week. While it was no longer for sale, people who previously bought it could still pay it. Then, after nearly two weeks, the developers regained control of their own game, with help from Steam.

Source: https://torrentfreak.com/game-developer-uses-dmca-notice-to-free-its-game-from-steam-publisher-190124/


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by arslan on Tuesday February 05 2019, @09:23PM (1 child)

    by arslan (3462) on Tuesday February 05 2019, @09:23PM (#796917)

    Would have been nice to put that in the TFS. The said publisher have also been blacklisted in Steam.

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  • (Score: 1) by tedd on Wednesday February 06 2019, @04:26AM

    by tedd (1691) on Wednesday February 06 2019, @04:26AM (#797057)

    Thank you. Before going to TFA, I thought Ammobox was in dispute with Steam (or Valve).