Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26829117-20180113095630/@comment-2605:A000:132E:8021:65F4:C449:9FC:F43B-20180119100658

Amrosa wrote: 2605:A000:132E:8021:1C8:9950:3E2C:CE6D wrote: FM could never shut this site down. Their game is copyrighted, not our thoughts and opinions concerning it. As far as paying an attorney, there are probably hundreds who would take a case like that for free. Look at every single Article page. Every photo, every Tier, every payout, every upgrade on every car, the Bot Names, even every single YouTube video of game play recorded are all theirs and copyrighted. By accepting the TOS when you started the game, you are agreeing to that. The forum and our ideas are a side note to the main content of the site. A DMCA takedown would cripple the site. How many forum posts contain screenshots or videos. All those would need to be culled.

Again, an argument could be made for fair use, but, if they claimed that the site damaged their revenues and was not simply critique, then that argument likely evaporates, it would be difficult to prove otherwise without extensive discovery, and evidence of exploits discussed, upgrade tree information and required PR information that could be seen as discouraging some users from participating and therefore spending or watching ads, and even ways to complete events under the recommended PR could all be used as evidence to support their case. I still don't think it would happen. They didn't see YouTube, or make all the contributors take everything down. They just went after ONE guy.