Kobra Studios, the developers behind Island Light on Steam Greenlight, has had their title removed either by Steam itself or by the original author likely due to copyright problems, deleting comments, and striking YouTubers who merely mention the game at all. The game is no longer in the ether, showing up blank on Steam with "That item does not exist. It may have been removed by the author."
The entire "cluster" began to fester four days ago when Kobra Team filed a copyright strike against The Escapist's Jim Sterling for having some negative comments about it in one of his Steam Greenlight wrap-up videos (which has been taken down). Other YouTube members also received a strike overnight including HarmfulGaming, attackslug who posted a reaction to the situation, and TheFijut who Tweeted out "LOL @JimSterling kobra put a copyright strike on my video too all I did was film the steam page and comments with my phone."
Truly, if Kobra Studios has any grasp on this thing we call the Internet, they should have known that this would not end well… But why did they start deleting comments on the Steam Community Page and getting all butt-hurt in the first place?
Well, earlier that day, someone noticed that the logo for Island Light and a picture of a mask on deviantart made in April 2010 looked far too similar to be a coincidence. Plagiarism, much? This likely led to a panic by the studio who promptly pressed the red button on anyone it could target.
Thus, cue the Stresiand effect, the phenomenon where attempting to suppress information makes that information much more public. Once something is on the Internet, it stays there like a hydra. Try to kill one head, and two more pop up. You would think that a studio named Kobra Studios would understand that.
