From BashAndSlash.com:
"As you may be aware, our very own PST*Joker has made assertions on BASH that the MP AC130 and several other MW2 features were influenced (without any recognition) by him and other PC modders.
A few hours ago, I saw a Tweet go out from a community member suggesting that Joker issue a takedown notice of Infinity Ward's AC130 vid on Youtube. "
A modder from the Call of Duty 4 community has contacted Youtube and filed a copyright complaint against the gameplay trailer of Modern Warfare 2 from July 27th. This trailer featured an AC-130 which was part of a COD4 mod called X4 without any credit going to the creator.
Youtube has removed this video from Infinity Ward's official Youtube channel.
Infinity Ward's community manager Robert Bowling has this to say about it: "Really? Copyright infringment claim? :sigh:"
Taste of their own medicine. They have been doing this on youtube videos. Eat that.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
The guy that filed the copyright claim was present in the podcast when Bowling announced IWNet. He didn't seem very happy about it.
How can IW do this? So many people that work in the games industry came out of the PC mod scene. Just look at DICE, and Valve, and Epic... So many great mods have come from BF2, Half-Life 2 and Unreal Tournament. Now they're just getting pushed aside by IW in order to control the community.
F*cking Infinity Ward...
After seeing some new stuff from BF:BC2 I'm done with CoD, I actually pulled my money off and paid off BF, It just looks way better. Not to mention it will have more players and a good story that I already like.
I'm "really" surprised that Youtube went and did that. I guess the Youtube's Draconian methods really do contain some laughs for us yet.
Suck it. IW.
EDIT: Oh S***! I've been playing CoD4 PC for some time, and I never knew about X4!
http://bashandslash.com/ind...
FYI, guys the dude and others really did make the mods before IW decided to take it for their own game. The claim is legitimate!