Absolute Zero: Attack of the Copyright Brats

[Витой]

Some disturbing news about Absolute Zero mod came today.

Some indie company "Giggle Horse", that is developing a game with the same name demanded mod's developers to change the name of their creation according to DMCA. Otherwise it's quite possible there is a possiblity of lawsuit and a call to a court.

What's interesting, Absolute Zero's Steam page exists for over 6 months already, and mod itself appeared in 2015, while this indie odd-job only appeared recently. The "Absolute Zero" is a scientific term and anyone's claims on it are quite absurd. More than that there are few products with the same name that exist already, including an album by Bruce Hornsbys, a song by Stone Sour, a Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 expansion...

In short this whole story has all signs of awkwardness and obscurantism of those people who love to buy rights for some phrases and terms and then demand people to stop using those in their creations.

[HaRaD]

these people are sick

[4channer_incognito]

forum post were they declared it https://www.gigglehorse.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6587

spread the word of copyright abuse

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yeah all post on giggle horse games forums give them your ip address and they can contact your isp

[rataj]

I agree that Giggle Horse Games are peasants!
If the game is released i will do my best to give them negative reviews and bad ratings!

And my signature here^^

[The Gman]

I think there's something wrong with their characters "Lena Maxwll, Owen Odell" 0_0

0_0 That's too many coincidences "The dreaded pirate ship Absolute Zero is attacking colonies in Freeman's Nebula! Can Lena Maxwll, Owen Odell and the gallant crew of the Hyperborea defeat the black-hearted Captain Trulson before Colony 17 is destroyed?"

So.. yeah.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_Zero_(video_game)

[Mister.K]

I think there's something wrong with their characters "Lena Maxwll, Owen Odell" 0_0

0_0 That's too many coincidences "The dreaded pirate ship Absolute Zero is attacking colonies in Freeman's Nebula! Can Lena Maxwll, Owen Odell and the gallant crew of the Hyperborea defeat the black-hearted Captain Trulson before Colony 17 is destroyed?"

So.. yeah.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_Zero_(video_game)

That story makes hunt down the freeman a f***ing great game!

[Spicy]

I didn't know you could get in trouble for using a scientific term.

[ChristianJP]

I think they are attempting a kind of, influence/advertising by force - done by eliminating anything that even remotely makes giggly horse's game look less special by taking attention from it in such an elementary way too, schoolground rules in the gaming industry is disgusting....which is sad, and even sadder as this looks the type of game that does not appeal to the masses/mainstream or modern gamers anyway