Yeah I remember seeing the DMCA message when I tried to use MEGA once some time ago for this game, someone stood up for the developer though saying that they allow F95 to have this here. Honestly it doesn't matter if he wants it here or not, there is no way to stop your game being played for free. There has and always will be someone circumventing any kind of DMCA nonsense or even DRM's.
well if thats the case cant help you much there, time to switch on vpn or something, pretty much all other sources sucks and nothing stay up for long timeGreat, guess I won't be downloading this game anymore. The issue I have with Torrent downloads it that they are block in my country, so without a MEGA or NOPOY links, no more lusty echoes for me.
yeah i agree, but for now they are still trying to take down everything and anyone that isnt around at time that gets leaked have to deal with shitty transfers. many sites dont even bother with this game anymore , too much work i guess.
The reason why they even started with the whole DMCA strikes in the first place was that one italian fuckface who lurks on this forum also, who blatantly stole the content and then sold it as his own on his website and on his own Patreon page too. He took all of Inceton's content down from his pages right after he saw Inceton himself posting here that he is going to take legal actions against him. Inceton however wanted to make sure it doesn't happen again, and bought DMCA services. He wanted to let F95 go without DMCA strikes, but obviously you can't just hand pick what sites gets the strike and what doesn't if you buy DMCA services from a company. After having a little fallout on this page with the staff he hasn't been interested of this site almost at all as that can be seen as reduced postings and visits here.
Not relevant at all, derived works can still be copyrighted, it's pretty common. The copyright is on what is novel, the story, its text and characters, the game's decisions, the specific renders etc. Even when the copyright on underlying things belongs elsewhere.
So are you this infamous italian thief who has been stealing other developers content and sold it as your own?
I don't really think that's possible. I am not a lawyer, but at least part of RenPy is released under LPGL, which here means Renpy Games have to be distributed under manner compatible with it. Which means, a) they cant really copyright it as derivative work, and what it is more important b) it can be sold, but source code has to be freely distributed. That's why we don't see DMCA bombings by larger players.
SureSo are you this infamous italian thief who has been stealing other developers content and sold it as your own?
Developer has already confirmed that they have bought services for it,
I don't see any copyright claims, or trademarks when I start the game. There is his logo, there is warning about epileptic seizures, after that warning about game being 18+...
You don't have to declare a copyright if I remember correctly. Just publishing something in some public form comes with an assumed copyright. The models are someone else's, but what the devs do with them can be copyrighted, in the same way you can't copyright an actor, but you can copyright the movie they are in. The tools to create the game are one thing, but the game itself can be copyrighted. It would be a pretty useless product if the maker of the tool kept the copyright for anything made from it. They can also copyright the dialogue and maybe some elements of the story, although time loop stuff is common everywhere.
It's depends on jurisdiction. EG, Mexico might recognise (I don't imply they do or not), and Sweden might not. You do realize it doesn't mean a lot at internet in this cased.
But models are indeed copyrighted.
Well, not here. Why? Because, game is not only developed by RenPy SDK. It's distributed with RenPy libraries and code.
What you are completely overlooking is that, copyrighting the game "Echoes of Lust" is not the same as trying to copyright the models used and game engine used as their own.
