Pepe's are no longer working...

[Lord Bork]

I've spent the last few hours trying to fix my Pepe emotes on my profile thinking it was a html error due to selling some and so on. But it seems the problem is not mine, they're not working for 2 of my friends as well. What's going on? Here's my emotes:

[gwait]

They were removed due to a DMCA claim by the owner.

[Cathulhu]

The author of Pepe the Frog filed a DMCA claim and Valve had to take down everything regarding Pepe the Frog.

[Lord Bork]

Well what about all the people that paid for the emotes? It's also against the law to remove something people have paid for.

[gwait]

They're still there I think, but it's just that they were removed from the marketplace/the picture was removed. Valve isn't the one who used the emoticon/they are not the ones selling it.

[Lord Bork]

Escrito originalmente por gwait:

They're still there I think, but it's just that they were removed from the marketplace.

They're not still there though. They're still available for purchase but they're literally just blank with the message "Emoticon art currently unavailable due to DMCA takedown notice submitted on behalf of Matt Furie.".

This is bullcrap, I've paid an excessive amount of money leveling up badges in order to get all the Pepe emotes. Matt Furie is an absolute sham of a human being, it's a frog that's been public domain for years. Shame on Valve for even complying to this absolute scumbag. What's next, are they going to remove the Doge and Pedobear emotes as well?

[gwait]

The pepe character came from his comic. It's just that it became used for the wrong reasons and now he has to monitor it closely.

[Cathulhu]

It never was public domain.

[Lord Bork]

Escrito originalmente por gwait:

The pepe character came from his comic. It's not public domain at all.

Well sorry, since 2005, Matt FGTurie hasn't give a single s*** about it being used and he only recently thought "Oh, I could make some money off of some publicity." and decided to DMCA strike Vaping Simulator and now Steam as a whole. If that isn't a scumbag move, I don't know what is. Why don't we just remove all these other frogs then?

Oh look, looks a bit like Pepe that does... Obviously Matt Furie owns the rights to every image of a frog ever so let's just move on and forget about it right?

Any of the emotes with "Pepe" in the title could easily be changed to frog and ones that didn't have it in the title should have never have been removed in the first place. If this is the case, why isn't the M4A4 | Howl completely removed? Because Valve actually put in some effort to fix the issue rather than just screw over customers such as myself.

[ReBoot]

Great rant you got here. Too bad its pointless.
1. Other people were making money with Pepe
2. The original creator has the legal and moral right to prevent that
3. Frankly, payimg for an emoticon thats NOT public domain NOR copyright of the game maker is dumb anyway

[Lord Bork]

Escrito originalmente por ReBoot:

Great rant you got here. Too bad its pointless.
1. Other people were making money with Pepe
2. The original creator has the legal and moral right to prevent that
3. Frankly, payimg for an emoticon thats NOT public domain NOR copyright of the game maker is dumb anyway

There's always one bellend that comes in and sticks up for the person that's obviously in the wrong. First of all, sue those people. Second, I've offered a viable solution and finally, I'll spend my money on what I want you absolute tosser.

[Tev]

Escrito originalmente por Intelligence:

Escrito originalmente por ReBoot:

Great rant you got here. Too bad its pointless.
1. Other people were making money with Pepe
2. The original creator has the legal and moral right to prevent that
3. Frankly, payimg for an emoticon thats NOT public domain NOR copyright of the game maker is dumb anyway

There's always one bellend that comes in and sticks up for the person that's obviously in the wrong. First of all, sue those people. Second, I've offered a viable solution and finally, I'll spend my money on what I want you absolute tosser.

Or someone who saw it coming a mile away.

[Lord Bork]

Escrito originalmente por Teutep:

Or someone who saw it coming a mile away.

Oh please, so you predicted they'd remove the actual images? Give me a break, they usually just remove the items from sale.

[Tev]

And is there a point in this arguing now?

They're not going to bring the "lol funi meme" back. So that's that.

[gwait]

Valve just acted on the request of the rightful owner. The meme was being used for the wrong reasons and he decided to monitor the use of his character more closely. Everything was done correctly and the only people who should be ashamed are the developers/whoever decided to use the character as an emoticon and charge money for it.

[Lord Bork]

Escrito originalmente por Teutep:

And is there a point in this arguing now?

They're not going to bring the "lol funi meme" back. So that's that.

The culprit of these items is not the customer, it's the game creators that used the image of Pepe. If anything, the emoticons should be banned from being sold, making them no longer obtainable but still readily available for those that purchased them or had them in the first place.

The point of the argument is that I've spent money on these and have no longer got access to what I've paid for, which is highly illegal in my country.