ubisoft is trying to sue somethingawful.com for a comic that was attached to their website about Assassin's Creed.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showth ... id=2686438

Very intersting and funny.

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Bit of a stupid reason to sue someone, Ubisoft must be American...

Yea, it is pretty stupid lawsuit... Its just funny how they try sueing someone for a drawing someone made. That is like sueing someone for calling them a fag online...

youme wrote:
Bit of a stupid reason to sue someone, Ubisoft must be American...

youme wrote:
Bit of a stupid reason to sue someone, Ubisoft must be American...

Damn americans...

Ummm maybe I'm just being stupid here but -

why the hell would you post a link to the image if Ubisoft is threatening to sue somethingawful for siomebody doing the same exact thing? I'm not understanding the logic behind this post diddy.

Also, msleeper, you have no problems with it either ?

I'm confused.

true... Wasn't thinking about it like that .

I have removed the pic, if you really want to see it, thats why they made google.

Yeah I didn't see the pic. Also, I would have turned Diddy over to the internet police in a heartbeat.

Are you really that self-censored? That you cannot allow forum goers to link to whatever they like? Fair enough if it's kiddy porn or something of that ilk, but seriously it's a bloody satirical (and only slightly pornographical) webcomic that comments on the fact that Ubisoft bloody raped their producer using her sex-appeal to sell their game.

And it worked too... They've gotten far better ratings than they were supposed to. Don't get me wrong, it's a good game, but not anything nearly like what it's received. I'd say it's 80% or so. Way too repetitive for anything more.

msleeper wrote:
Yeah I didn't see the pic. Also, I would have turned Diddy over to the internet police in a heartbeat.

O_o the internet police???

too bad i am at school, they will never catch me alive!!!

The real reason it's stupid is that they're suing Something Awful and not Dave "Chugworth Academy" Cheung.

To be fair, they aren't ACTUALLY suing them. They just sent a cease and desist order, more or less. "Take it off your site or we WILL sue you" they haven't actually pressed charges yet

Still pretty stupid... plus, they are making demands I don't think they are legally entitled to make, such as:

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(3) provide us with the name and contact information of the person who originally created and/or posted the Image

Not to mention that it's all moot since there has been no commercial exploitation, intentional or otherwise.

Took me a while to sift through all the forum posts to actually find the "offensive" image.

I'm pretty sure i've seen more offensive things in my life.

Still, not appropriate for most online communities. Fits in perfect at somethingawful.com.

I just find it especially funny that they would send a cease and desist to somethingawful at all. I mean...They have a section on their site dedicated to legal threats. And how they laugh at people who attempt them.

As much as I would love to see SA get knocked on its collective ass, something tells me this isn't going to do it.

Well how are you suppose to find some ones name that posted the original picture?? Thats almost impossible. One person coulda made it, then another took it then another person took it and so on for the repeating process.

Since its the internet some people think that they can just take someones work and just say its theirs with no one knowing.

Also what are they gonna do with the persons name??? They gonna sue them? If someone asked you for your contact information address and shit, I wouldn't give it to them lol... My mom crys when I say what city I live in....

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youme wrote:
Bit of a stupid reason to sue someone, Ubisoft must be American...

Actually, Ubisoft is French. Their HQ is in France. And the studio that made Assassin's Creed is in Canada. Montreal, I believe.

And they're not really going to sue anyone. This is public relations damage control. Like Player1 said, Ubisoft purposely promoted Jade as a way to get more attention for Assassin's Creed, and now it has backfired. The comic in question -- which fits right in at somethingawful because it's aimed at the lowest common denominator -- was simply the most visible/offensive part of a larger backlash.

Ubi will be fine, of course. It's a corporation, after all. As long as it makes money nothing really can hurt it. This is a pretty terrible thing for Jade to have to go through, but hopefully she'll be able to learn from it and move on.

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Question: What are the DMCA Safe Harbor Provisions?

Answer: In 1998, Congress passed the On-Line Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA) in an effort to protect service providers on the Internet from liability for the activities of its users. Codified as section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), this new law exempts on-line service providers that meet the criteria set forth in the safe harbor provisions from claims of copyright infringement made against them that result from the conduct of their customers. These safe harbor provisions are designed to shelter service providers from the infringing activities of their customers. If a service provider qualifies for the safe harbor exemption, only the individual infringing customer are liable for monetary damages; the service provider's network through which they engaged in the alleged activities is not liable.

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