Parody Game NotGTAV Vanishes From Steam After Strange Copyright Claim
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NotGTAV, which is not GTA V, was a hit when it released on Steam last week. Then it disappeared. The game is back now, a short-term victim of what seems to have been a bogus copyright claim.
As of a few minutes ago, NotGTAV is back up on the Steam store. Still, questions remain: who did file the DMCA claim, and why? Was it just for shits and giggles, to see if they could stick it to The Man (The Man in this case being Valve and a small, well-meaning charity parody game)? Or did they have something more purposeful/malicious in mind? And why did Valve fall for it? Why didn’t they do a more thorough check on the person who submitted the complaint before yanking NotGames’ magnum opus full of hand-drawn magnums that look kinda like octopuses from their store?
Clearly, some processes broke down here. Let us hope that everybody involved takes the necessary steps to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
Source : Kotaku
Anyways, here is some NotGTAV awesomeness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJqZIzJQOnM
