No, that's not a typo. Modern Warfare 4.
Modern Warfare 4 might be a way off, but gamers are a forward thinking lot. If you type www.modernwarfare4.com into your browser address bar, what you'll find is a nifty blackmail set-up.
In a nutshell, ZiiP Gaming Community has the domain and is offering it to Infinity Ward in exchange for copies of Modern Warfare 4, a game likely to be around four years away, for each and every one of their members. There are currently 62 members (keep an eye on that). We assume they don't expect to get MW4 in the near future...
FuRuy has opened a Twitter account called “Project Alice” teasing a new game announcement on April 25 at 20:30 JST.
Filing a false DMCA claim costs nothing, requires no proof, and can destroy an indie game's launch in minutes. Fighting back can cost tens of thousands of dollars and take weeks (if you can afford it at all).
Copyright is copyright. DMCA is a good thing that protects creators IP., revenue and usage. and you can absolutely appeal a wrongful DMCA takedown. It’s happened to me. Was easily resolved.
it's a good thing, but it's also long been reported, across a variety of industries and websites, that currently the system is ripe for and full of abuses. From fair use strikes, to matters like the one reported in this article. It's clear the law needs some tooth to punish bad actors and that parameters need to be set in how reports are filed; ie human review of said content and not some AI bot false flagging stuff. As is the system is far to easily abused by those who have motive to suppress and flag content they have no business or right to.
Until there's genuine consequences for this type of abuse, it'll keep happening across all media. DMCA is in principle a good thing, but it needs an overhaul.
The Montreal-based team behind March of Giants joins Ubisoft to continue development on the free-to-play 4v4 MOBA game where players take on the role of giant combatants.
www.modernwarfarefour.com
www.modernwarfareiv.com
www.modernwarfare-4.com
There, problem solved.
how bout futurewarefare.com? That will solve it all together.
Im so glad that even as a gamer, i have better things to do. Im sure IW will come out with a whole new domain name. hell by the time MW4 is supposed to come out, it will probably have a new tag line.
What jackasses they got at ZiiP
This is known as cybersquatting. There has been legisltation for about 10 years to curtail people snatching up trademarks or common names in the hopes of profiting from them. You can wind up in court if you aren't careful.