Hello there, for the longest time I have had issues with other members of games community stealing assets which has led to me filing many successful DMCA’s. However recently, it appears that the Copyright Agent’s have been reworked internally and are now ENTIRELY useless.
I very recently had to file a DMCA for a game with over 1000 players using my stolen viewmodel gun animations & rigs and expected it to go by quickly due to how blatant it was. HOWEVER, that was anything but the case. After sending a DMCA to support & linking the proof on a viewable drive link,
I was told they were unable to identify the infringing content and would require “markers”??? Odd considering the video was a direct comparison with “markers”, but I thought whatever and recorded a second video personally voicing it over to help the agents.
After recording and uploading this video to YouTube, I replied to the DMCA agent with it. After waiting another day I got a response telling me they could not open the “DOC File” I had provided them entirely ignoring the Youtube link they had been provided with.
I assume perhaps they missed the Youtube link, so I sent it again assuring them it has all the markers they have asked for. To my surprise, I am literally told to REREAD what THEY have said to me instead and my ticket is closed.
So obviously, I file another DMCA. This time I make a PDF file including a frame by frame analysis & step by step guide with large red arrows, circles, and subtitles to locate these SUPER hard to find stolen assets which you can read through right here:
Markers (1).pdf (765.0 KB)
To my utter astonishment I receive a reply telling me that they were once again unable to locate the stolen assets with no further instructions or questions whatsoever.
This level of incompetency is UNHEARD of and genuinely staggers me that developers have to deal with this. While I sit here making videos, PDFs, comparisons to prove to these agents, my work on this platform is being stolen, used without my permission, and profited off of from thousands of concurrent players and Roblox has told me there is nothing out of the ordinary here.