Files spurious DMCA takedowns.
Yeah, we’re talking about criminal perjury again. Bakodun Game Studios is the developer behind the game “I’m looking for 3024 people” and I use the term “developer” about as loosely as I’m using the term “game” here. The title claims to be an ARG but has more in common with a pyramid scheme, trying to get players to buy in and then get other players to buy in for a mysterious puzzle that can only be unveiled if 3024 people buy the game and complete a virtually impossible task.
Anyway, Bakodun Game Studios committed perjury and admitted to it. With several YouTubers criticizing the title, Bakodun Game Studios did what any shady developer does; they issued bad faith DMCA takedowns. How do we know they are in bad faith? The devs admitted to it.
In a thread on the Steam boards, the devs admit to taking down the videos because they claim the content is “not true.”
“Hello, we are not covering up things. We just want to prevent the spread of misinformation. This misinformation also consists of incomplete information and abuse of it. Some influencers degrade the game due to incomplete information.”
The DMCA takedown is not for “misinformation,” but for genuine copyright violations. A takedown is submitted under the possible penalty of criminal perjury if the takedown is in bad faith, which the devs are admitting in this thread.
Which should tell you that the criticism was probably mostly correct.
“If you read the game descriptions and videos other than these videos, you will see that we do not provide incomplete information. If it was a DMCA violation, Youtube wouldn’t approve it anyway. In this process, they approved by asking us for trademark registration information. They don’t ask why we demand this. They just want our trademark registration information. And if this was an NFT or scam game, Steam, Epic Store, and Microsoft Store wouldn’t have released it anyway.”
The dev is lying several times in this paragraph but I’ll point out the “if it was a DMCA violation, Youtube wouldn’t approve it anyway.” Which is a blatant lie. YouTube doesn’t get involved in the majority of copyright claims, founded or otherwise. The dev also lies in this post about not wanting the videos taken down, easily disproven by the fact that they had them taken down.
“Bakodun Game Studios” and “I’m looking for 3024 people” are licensed brands. It cannot be tolerated to defame these brands unfairly and to be a partner in this. We do everything necessary to protect the game and our community of players.
Bakodun Game Studios is actively and deliberately harming their own brand and creating an even more hostile environment between themselves and the public. They made illegal use of a legal form to silence critics and bully people for making negative statements about their product.
Nobody is trying to defame the Bakodun brand more than Bakodun right now. Who would’ve thought a the people behind a failed NFT game would be despicable?
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