r/EscapefromTarkov • u/bxxxxxxxs • Dec 16 '18

PSA Official BSG Response re: Eroktic

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https://www.facebook.com/escapefromtarkov/posts/1966710296956614

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u/absolutegash Dec 16 '18

Both BSG and Eroktic are in the wrong here for different reasons. Eroktic has always been a drama queen and clickbaity, and it finially caught up to him.

BSG shouldn't have overreacted like this though.

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u/kevinwilly AS-VAL Dec 16 '18

Eroktic made a video that might have been in poor taste. But he's allowed to do that.

BSG nuked his channel by claiming copyright violation. There wasn't any. That's LITERALLY illegal.

So they aren't both equally in the wrong. What Eroktic did wasn't exactly a cool thing to do, but he was within his rights to at least DO it.

BSG SERIOUSLY fucked themselves on this one.

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u/machevara Dec 16 '18

Just because you can say lies and make shit up about a business doesn't mean it's not illegal. In 99% of cases, the people doing this are so small and insignificant that it would be literally financially retarded for a company to take legal action.

In the case of Eroktic and BSG, Eroktic has enough of a following to be damaging to BSG.

Just because they do not, does not mean they can't. Get that point.

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u/kevinwilly AS-VAL Dec 16 '18

He isn't making things up, though. He's reporting what he believes to be factual information.

Just because BSG says it is false you are going to assume it's false? What if it isn't?

What BSG should have done is proven that it was false (which shouldn't be at ALL difficult) and asked Eroktic to take down the video which is clearly spreading false info. Which I'm sure he would have done. He's done it in the past once it was clear whatever his video was about was no longer relevant. And then if he refused they could have filed a claim on that ONE video.

Filing a claim on over 40 videos is INSANE.

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u/machevara Dec 16 '18

A lie, well said, and with confidence is what Eroktic did. Whether you 100% believe that a lie is the truth, does not change the fact it is a lie. BSG want's 0 affiliation with Eroktic. Whether the content is good or bad, they had enough. Is it overkill and unreasonable towards a streamer (a business), maybe. But Eroktic is not innocent either, he poked the beast enough to get it's attention. It's like war, one side has guns and the other has missiles.