March Update: The Abrupt Edition
It's time for a highly needed and somewhat abrupt update to discuss a couple of matters that have been going on the past few days. To put it bluntly: I have taken all of my machinima work offline until further notice from YouTube, Vimeo, Behance and FilmFreeway. To answer the lingering 'why?', I will need to go a bit more into detail. Earlier this week I have received a notification from YouTube stating that AR3NA and the trailer for AR3NA were taken offline due to a copyright claim from one of the artists whose music was featured in both projects. The film was not simply unlisted. Instead it was removed from YouTube in its entirety and the channel received a copyright strike. In my opinion it was quite a harsh first choice to make considering my e-mail address is open and accessible on the Channel Page to discuss matters like this. Copyright holders actually have a choice to first contact the person privately or send a 7-day notice first, which would've been the more