Michael Bay's Skibidi Toilet movie production company has apparently sent DMCA takedowns to Garry's Mod

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• MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d love to see valve return the dmca with a c&d telling them that all the models and character designs use their creative property and that they can go fuck themselves.

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  • Zetta@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The article states the taken down was sent to Garry Newman, so that would be his game studio face punch. Valve would not be included in this legal battle.

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    • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m fully aware, I grew up the the game as well (well, TF2, but it was the “golden years” of Valve and source-based multiplayer games). That doesn’t mean Garry Newman can’t send them a copy of the dmca for them to include in their C&D. I honestly want to see Valve do it, regardless of whether the original dmca is legit, because it’d bring a lot of attention to false-dmcas. The reason why I’m not saying that Garry should do it is because, well, the assets are actually Valve’s, not Garry’s, and I’m not sure if Garry actually has an explicit license to use them and as such, would not be in a position to “fight fire with fire” himself.

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve seen a lot of dumb shit this year and this one is pretty bad. Yeah, get in a fight with Valve over their own shit. Waste your whole movie budget on legal fees.

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• cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  LoL!!! Fuck corporate media, including movie companies.

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• FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  DMCA takedowns have been broken and abused forever.

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• drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is the joke flying over my head? I can’t tell. Is this a skit?

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  • Khanzarate@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Garry’s mod uses Valve assets and is published by Valve. Of particular note, it has half life assets in it.

    The skibidi toilet series was made with Source Filmmaker, a video editing software published by Valve, which allows people to use the Source engine, the game engine that half-life 2 used. As SFM was made by Valve, they allowed a bunch of half-life assets to be free in SFM. the original toilet head is an asset from Half-life 2, Male_07, which Garry’s Mod has access to, given it is a valve release and can use valve models.

    They C&D’d Valve for using Valve assets in a Valve game.

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    • drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah man I have all of the context, it’s just a very The Onion thing to have happen. I really can’t tell if it’s real or a joke

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  • Icalasari@fedia.io ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think Earth may have jumped the shark, and aliens will soon cancel this reality tv show

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  • kindenough@kbin.earth ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, having seen Bay's complete works, this is violently exploding *shit in slow motion.

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• conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  YouTuber Alexey “DaFuq!?Boom!” Gerasimov, who currently has 43 million subscribers, makes no secret of these inspirations, often crediting Garry’s Mod community assets in the video descriptions. Gerasimov also appeared on the S&box Discord after the DMCA began to circulate in the hope of getting in touch with Newman. “I did NOT strike Garry’s Mod and I’m trying to understand what else is written in the letter!”, he wrote.

  Even dumber lol.

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