• TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca
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    12 hours ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management

    DRM technologies[4] include licensing agreements

    The ones you agree to when you install the game, like CD Projekt RED’s EULA.

    https://store.steampowered.com/eula/1091500_eula_0

    I assume this part, at least it’s the first one that gives them an excuse:

    Don’t create, use, make available… software that interact with or affect our Games and/or Services in any way (including any unauthorised third party programs that collect information about our Games and/or Services by reading areas of memory used by our Games and/or Services to store information).

    The DMCA allows the hosting service to be exempt from any legal damages if they follow up on DMCA takedowns. It would take winning or losing a lawsuit to determine how valid or invalid the argument is, not winning or losing an Internet argument, so I can only point out why it’s possible.

    There are a lot of people abusing DMCA takedowns on YouTube, have you not heard about it before? Look up copyright trolls DMCA on YouTube if you want more info on it.

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      11 hours ago

      There are a lot of people abusing DMCA takedowns on YouTube, have you not heard about it before? Look up copyright trolls DMCA on YouTube if you want more info on it.

      This is what I am actually asking. Does CD Projekt Red abuse the DMCA system here?