I don’t see it either. At least from Gaijins public statements there’s no reason for a C&D at all.
Usually in such a case there would need to be multiple warnings about the actual problem before a full C&D, in this case to stop calling it leaks. Without warnings a C&D about something Gaijin never prohibited should be completely invalid.
This I could see though. Maybe the C&D said to not call it leaks and she stopped completely to be safe.
Well unfortunately, leaks have been turned political, and I suspect targeting olivia with a C&D is meant to be a warning to other leakers to slow it down with the fairly egregious nature of said leaks recently.
I am personally a proponent of increasing scrutiny/restrictions on leakers because they ruin hype for patches, meaning people are more focused on the ‘leaked’ content than the update itself, which often leads to excessively negative discourse.
Furthermore, with the recent M1A2/VT4 drama, that was solely down to a certain leaker who feels to need to cause intense controversy regarding sensitive topics, i reckon if they added a Thai VT4 without prior knowlegde from the playerbase, it wouldn’t have recieved half the controversy that it did.
This is not an endorsement of datamining and a flase claim im afriad. We have never given permission to do so. This was some information on format within the game files.
“Hello data miners! To assist you in your endeavours…”
This followed by the relevant information which should quote - “This should be enough information to help update your tools” and “Can some one copy in dataminers who would find this useful please?” seems like what is an endorsement for datamining. Why else would it be posted if not to help dataminers?
Because contextually at the time we had just massively changed the way files were formatted and there was a negative reception to this and a lot of misunderstanding. So we were being fully open and transparent about how the change was done.
It was never an official endorsement of datamining.