Re: What's ESA's problem?

The ESA are US legal representatives for a coalition of game publishers. They act on behalf of the interests of pretty much every big video game corporation. They're the ones who created the ESRB, for example. They get paid big money to do stuff like creating bots to scan the web for keywords and then auto-send DMCA takedown requests.

I get Nintendo and Sega copyrighting their games because they obviously own them and all. But why do many games say that they were taken down by the ESA? As far as I know they didn't make Minecraft, they didn't make Need for Speed. Why are they taking them down? Nintendo (and Sega) taking down their own stuff wouldve been bad enough, and yet ESA just had to seal in the cracks didn't they?

(Tbh until this event happened I didn't even know who they were lol)