▲ 458 ▼ That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says (www.pcgamer.com) submitted 2 years ago by billothekid2@kbin.social to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world 131 comments fedilink hide all child comments Honestly, a bit surprised by this. It wasn't even on Steam. Hopefully switching to an open source SDK will get this back up.
[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) It's a bit like if Metallica had just embraced Napster permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago (2 children) It was Scorpions that went after Napster, no? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] scottywh@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) It was primarily Metallica. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica_v._Napster,_Inc. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LeKX2bNP7QM permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [B] 4 points 2 years ago Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://m.piped.video/watch?v=LeKX2bNP7QM Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub. permalink fedilink source parent [–] dezmd@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago Lars Ultrash was the most publicly outspoken and often quoted in the Record Companies PR propaganda push for the DMCA and against Napster. He came off like a greedy bitch at the time, and created the perceptions of Metallica as a cash grab sell out band more than they already were being seen as by long time fans. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago (2 children) It was Scorpions that went after Napster, no? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] scottywh@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) It was primarily Metallica. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica_v._Napster,_Inc. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LeKX2bNP7QM permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [B] 4 points 2 years ago Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://m.piped.video/watch?v=LeKX2bNP7QM Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub. permalink fedilink source parent [–] dezmd@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago Lars Ultrash was the most publicly outspoken and often quoted in the Record Companies PR propaganda push for the DMCA and against Napster. He came off like a greedy bitch at the time, and created the perceptions of Metallica as a cash grab sell out band more than they already were being seen as by long time fans. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) It was primarily Metallica. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica_v._Napster,_Inc. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LeKX2bNP7QM permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [B] 4 points 2 years ago Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://m.piped.video/watch?v=LeKX2bNP7QM Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [B] 4 points 2 years ago Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://m.piped.video/watch?v=LeKX2bNP7QM Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dezmd@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago Lars Ultrash was the most publicly outspoken and often quoted in the Record Companies PR propaganda push for the DMCA and against Napster. He came off like a greedy bitch at the time, and created the perceptions of Metallica as a cash grab sell out band more than they already were being seen as by long time fans. permalink fedilink source parent