Anti-cheat dev threatens legal action against negative reviews and articles
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> This article greatly lacks neutrality, is objectively false, and there's nothing to shield it from legal liability. At the very least the publisher should've contacted us and included our side of the story.
> We're going to work with our legal counsel without hesitation and take necessary actions against the publisher of the article and the Steam user who made the original review comment.
Here's the context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35576148
In the thread, he also takes issue with complaints about privacy, providing two conflicting counterpoints. On one hand, he claims that there's no reason for anti-cheat software to collect personal information. But right afterwards, he says his software includes a privacy policy to comply with regulations.
It's a long thread, but in general, it doesn't seem to occur to him that people have issues with the invasiveness of anti-cheat software. He repeatedly claims that the article and the original review comment was made for the sole purpose of harming his business interests.