Bungie Gets Hit By Its Own Destiny Copyright Takedowns

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Streamers and other content creators have been getting hit with copyright takedown requests for anything related to Destiny since at least last week, mostly for YouTube videos featuring music from the games. The trick is that Bungie isn’t behind any of this. The company itself has even been targeted.

The news broke when fans of the franchise took to Reddit after the YouTube channels of some well known music archivists were hit with copyright takedowns. This raised a significant amount of concern within the community on account of the fact that certain musical compositions which have since been removed from the Destiny games were only available on these channels. The music archivists known as Promethean and Breshi were specifically named.

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“Promethean, Breshi, and other Destiny music archivists just got hit with copyright strikes from Bungie,” the Reddit user Inditorias remarked. “In response, they are deleting all Destiny content from their channels. Never again will we be able to listen to music that has been removed from the game, especially the seasonal tracks that were never a part of an original soundtrack.”

While the copyright takedowns began with music, other types of content were soon in the spotlight. Streamers for example started to notice clips disappearing from their back catalogs on account of them featuring cutscenes that had certain tracks playing in the background. The effect on many content creators turned out to be devastating.

“Bungie needs to come out and be honest about what's going on,” the Reddit user Atlyxmusic asserted. “When your channel on YouTube gets deleted, you lose your entire Google account. I don't