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Advice Regarding MediaFire and Copyright Claims

Bguy7

Bguy7

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I'm looking for some advice from people with experience publishing fan games.

After about a month of having my fan game up on MediaFire for download, the ability to share the download link has been revoked with the only provided explanation being "copyright claims." Obviously, I understand that distributing a fan game is a potential minefield, I'm just trying to figure out how much this actually matters. Does anyone know if this means someone representing (or even directly from) The Pokémon Company or Nintendo requested my game be taken down specifically, or is this just a proactive thing that MediaFire does?

Essentially, I'm trying to figure out if I'm potentially in hot water here. If I reupload my game to a different file sharing website (let's say Mega), am I asking for trouble, or will it probably be fine?

So many people use MediaFire and other file sharing websites to share fan games, I find it hard to believe that my month old game has somehow been singled out. If this is just a thing MediaFire is known to do, are there any suggestions on alternatives? The only other file sharing website I'm somewhat familiar with is Mega. Would it be the same story there?
 
I would say that it was probably someone who reported your game, TPC usually doesn’t look at fangames unless they grow on a huge scale (and let's just say it’s very difficult for a fangame to become famous and huge) or if you’re making money from it (I'm looking at you, UT)

So I would say you're good, you can upload back on both if you want (or google drive too), and if it happens again, know that it was probably someone who reported it and not TPC themselves
 
Willøw said:
I would say that it was probably someone who reported your game, TPC usually doesn’t look at fangames unless they grow on a huge scale (and let's just say it’s very difficult for a fangame to become famous and huge) or if you’re making money from it (I'm looking at you, UT)

So I would say you're good, you can upload back on both if you want (or google drive too), and if it happens again, know that it was probably someone who reported it and not TPC themselves
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Thanks for the advice. That gives me some piece of mind. Fingers crossed it won't happen again.
 
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