This doesn't seem like a futile move at all.
Oh you silly Blizzard.
I don't even get it, honestly, outside of repressed puritanical views on sex. Of all the things they could be spending their time and money on, it's vainly trying to shut down a harmless pastime.
It doesn't matter in the slightest whether or not it's fair use, stuff like this is always going to be made regardless. This is also not the first blizzard game where people created porn using using the 3d models, it's very naive of blizzard to think that they can control it.
I'm not personally into this kind of stuff, but I'm not gonna act like some sort of justice warrior and claim that blizzard should do this because it's in their right, cause it's simply not possible to police what get's made on the internet.
It doesn't really matter what they do. It will continue to happen and exist for as long as people are interested in it. This is actually a little dumb by Blizzard. They're just giving what they deem inappropriate free advertisement by making a fuss over it. I didn't even know about this until MMOC was posting it everywhere for example and now they're fueling the fire.
I think this is just a matter of Blizzard protecting assets from a legal standpoint. They know they won't stop rule 34. It is just showing they're making an attempt to protect their IP.
Trying to take down overwatch porn is a joke. Haven't seen them make a statement about all the wow porn thats been going on for years now.
They created a game with the intent of giving everybody a Husbandu and Waifu and act surprised when Rule 34 surfaces. GRANTED, in Overwatch's case it's pretty much impossible to look up any images of characters on a protected search without some sort of barely cropped Rule 34 of Tracer appearing, but then the same could be said of other popular IP's like League of Legends too.
Porn is made with actual assets from a ton of different games, why do you think no other gaming company have done anything about it? Because it's literally impossible so there's really no point in even trying.
All this does is make blizzard look incompetent for trying to do something so silly.
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I don't understand, issuing take down notices doesn't mean they immediately all disappear, nor does it mean Blizzard thinks they can get rid of every single one. They most likely want to just get rid of as much as they can, and discourage the creation of it.
I mean, they could go the Nintendo route of handling it though.
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I think you're all dramatizing this a bit much. This isn't "Blizzard" getting angry and wanting to exact justice on some villainous scum. It's just their legal department going through the motions, same as every day of the year.
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