What's Bethesda going to do about it?

They could try invading Ukraine. All my Russian acquaintances assure me it’s quick and easy.

Makes me think of a recent Davie504 video where he said he got a copyright notice for playing “the sound of silence” when what actually happened was he joked he was going to and then played a muted video of him playing the bass. Actual insanity.

Military behind lines can be pretty important because of delays in them receiving notices and their ability to do anything about it. Pretty much every legal notice gets a timeframe before things occur. Usually something like a month is sufficient, but for someone in military service, who have arguably the best excuse to not be able to do regular things for a whole month, the usual polite way to go about things is to wait for them to return home, and historically, courts have thrown out cases for people who didn't do that, because it wasn't a reasonable amount of notice.

No idea about the legalities of this particular case, but it is extra rude, getting a court date and losing by default for not showing up when you didn't show up because another part of government mandated you be on a battlefield.

Have you seen the trade deals the us is trying to push on countries?

With Ukraine nothing, with google play where this emulator is published obviously a lot, also bigger services even local often comply with DMCA requests even if they aren't required to honor them or take any action by law.

We thought all the game companies in the past were great because we weren't as in tune to what were bad practices, skullduggery, and just generally shitty behavior. Bethesda has always released bug riddled messes of games, just that community modding and the time frame they came out there weren't many like that. Companies have always wanted to make money and did whatever they could to get it.

Probably always, but I like to think that the company that gave me Arena and Daggerfall wasn't dogshit yet.

uhh none?

Bethesda has been dogshit long before people are willing to admit, yes I'm talking about that game. Yep. that one is trash too and riddled with bugs that reek of incompetence.

Kudos on their writing team(s) though

Always.

They've just always gotten a free pass because of second hand credit from all the incredible modding that happens on their games.

If their games were not moddable, and they did not have a community to rely upon having done billions and billions of dollars in free work and labor for them, Bethesda as a company would have probably died 20 years ago.

It's always annoying how "it's just a contractor/company working on their behalf" is used as an excuse.

No, this is on Bethesda.
They hired this copyright troll and they're responsible for fraudulent DMCA requests sent on their behalf.

They have enough money to either vet their contractors, or do the job themselves.

"It's just a false positive" while a regular person has their life fucked up. Whether it's first party or another company hired to do the job, these giant companies don't deserve any grace when they abuse DMCA.

Even if the traffic of the torrent protocol is peer-to-peer, there have to be central nodes managing all that unfortunately. This is why DMCA notices are also successful with torrent providers. Without anyone providing that central node, no torrent works.

One of the major weaknesses of bittorrent.

Neither, this time it was one of those stupid third parties they hire to try and search for infringing content.