Meltdowns are sometimes fun to watch, and one such meltdown is occurring over the game Slaughtering Grounds, an indie FPS that has been getting absolutely abysmal reviews on Steam and seems to have already become a meme of sorts thanks to that fact alone, so much so that Jim Sterling decided to playfully skewer the game in a recent video review—a video that was quickly DMCAed.

The meltdown, however, is coming from the developer, who after taking Sterling’s video down with the DMCA notice, re-uploaded that same review with poorly spelled rants making fun of the famous game reviewer.

Making matters worse, the developer took to the Steam Forums to defend their decision and warn everyone not to make new threads discussing the situation … which had the opposite effect, obviously, since there are nearly a dozen of them on the Steam forums as of this writing.

Sterling filed a counter-suit against Imminent Uprising, the developer, for removal of the video, and if the law is anything to go by, it would seem the developer has little chance of walking away from this a winner:

Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 17 U.S.C. § 106 and 17 U.S.C. § 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright

As an aside, I find it funny that developers getting written pieces removed because they don’t like what is said is fairly impossible, but removing a video review is depressingly easy.