A leaked Tomb Raider script is looking pretty legit now that Square Enix DMCA’d it
by Sean Hollister from The Verge - All Posts on (#624MC)
Ever heard of the Streisand effect? It's when someone tries to suppress information only to wind up spreading it even further than it might have otherwise traveled.
For example: last week, I might have been skeptical if you told me a podcaster got their hands on a casting script for the next Tomb Raider game - one that reveals that an older, lonely Lara Croft may dodge lasers in a gravity tomb" and engage in a romance with another female character.
But if you also told me that the head lawyer at Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dynamics immediately sent a DMCA takedown notice - one where he attested under penalty of perjury that the podcast infringed on the studio's intellectual property - I would absolutely think that script and those...