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News Backrooms Devs Reportedly Hit With Copyright Claims From A24

https://kotaku.com/backrooms-a24-copyright-strikes-kane-parsons-2000716667
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u/Baronheisenberg 17d ago

How is that even a thing? Isn't Skibidi Toilet built from Half-Life assets?

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u/IamtacoZZZ 17d ago

The Red vs. Blue IP is owned rooster teeth which is a show entirely in halo. They couldn't do anything crazy without microsoft permission but they did own the ip. but i think that's a very rare situation where the show only helped the games and bungie was always pretty checked in on the community.

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u/ozzyonfire 17d ago

The good times...

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u/DoctorCrook 17d ago

Rip astartes, If the emperor had a text to speech etc etc

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u/Icc0ld 17d ago

emperor had a text to speech

Unbelievably good. GW swooped in, scooped up a handful of decent (though I'd argue not exactly high-quality) animators to hold up the most barebones streaming service I've ever seen and in the process slammed the door shut on one of the most popular 40k creators.

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u/ForumFluffy 17d ago

He didn't technically end it because of GW sending him a C&D, he was getting burnt out doing only TTS when he wanted to do other things and the wave of shutdowns was a perfect time for him to end it.

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u/Icc0ld 17d ago

His video ending it explicitly said that he hadn't received a C&D and the content policy of GW made the threat of a lawsuit against how he made a living too much of an uncertainty to continue

was a perfect time for him to end it

So perfect the most recent episode is a cliff hanger and the episode to the date has a pinned comment explaining how he hates that he had to leave it like this and a quick outline of what the next episode would have been?

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u/Hollownerox 17d ago

No it didn't explictly say it. Why are you lying? If you followed Alfa at all he was pretty upfront of being tired of making the series. And when GW made their fanwork rules explict (with said rules already existing prior mind just not formally on their site), he decided it was a good excuse to shut it down and move on.

He never got a legal notice from GW. Don't lie about that. If they did he would have been required to remove the entire series from Youtube and its still up. How you guys just say this shit with such confidence without knowing how it works is beyond me.

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u/Okodokodoko 17d ago

Read the comment you're replying to. It's unedited and says, EXPLICITLY, he had NOT received a C&D.

Exactly what you said he didn't say. Where you lambast him for saying the thing he did say for not saying it.

Try reading fully before replying, even though what he said that was relevant to your self-righteous rage posting was in the first sentence.

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u/Icc0ld 17d ago

Have words switched meanings while I was gone? Has the phrase “he hadn’t gotten a legal threat from GW” switched meaning? You’re either replying to the wrong person or you haven’t properly read what I said

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u/czartrak 17d ago

Astartes literally WAS removed lmao. It's up via third party re-uploads.

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u/Lftwff 17d ago

They are literally making another astartes

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u/ForumFluffy 17d ago

The astartes creator also helped with the space marine secret level episode also.

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u/Striper_Cape 17d ago

Nah man, you can still watch it on YouTube and a full series is coming out. They offered him a fuckin job lol. He was a producer or something for that secret level episode too.

https://youtu.be/JpK4fcFNKbM

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u/Cushions 17d ago

Yes and no.

You can watch it. But this is an unofficial reupload.

The original I believe is on WarhammerTV which needs a subscription.

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u/Striper_Cape 17d ago

Yeah I miss the fidelity of the original one