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In preparation for relaunch, a mysterious anime character appeared on the website in front of a series of coffins and teased that something big was coming (later revealed to be the new website). The text beneath the character displayed in Hebrew and Armenian, occasionally changing messages. Discussion of the character and what was happening spread to Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, and other fan websites, with fans trying to decode the visual and textual clues in the image. The character was later revealed to be created by WPM and part of the new artist/storytelling program. Since then, PokéBeach's site banner is drawn by new artists every week, further progressing the fan story like a comic strip, introducing new characters, and advertising each of the artists and their portfolios to the general public. WPM stated in his grand opening video that as a filmmaker, he loved to tell stories and collaborate with others, and his renewed website was another outlet through which he could do this. | In preparation for relaunch, a mysterious anime character appeared on the website in front of a series of coffins and teased that something big was coming (later revealed to be the new website). The text beneath the character displayed in Hebrew and Armenian, occasionally changing messages. Discussion of the character and what was happening spread to Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, and other fan websites, with fans trying to decode the visual and textual clues in the image. The character was later revealed to be created by WPM and part of the new artist/storytelling program. Since then, PokéBeach's site banner is drawn by new artists every week, further progressing the fan story like a comic strip, introducing new characters, and advertising each of the artists and their portfolios to the general public. WPM stated in his grand opening video that as a filmmaker, he loved to tell stories and collaborate with others, and his renewed website was another outlet through which he could do this. | ||
===Lawsuit=== | |||
In June 2015, Sahagian was sued by [[The Pokémon Company International]] for violation of the {{wp|Digital Millennium Copyright Act}} by "willfully and deliberately infringing TPCi’s intellectual property in connection with the PokéBeach Site and the TCG One game", which PokéBeach was hosting at the time, causing "irreparable harm" to the company. The lawsuit alleged that PokéBeach was violating copyright and provided false copyright management information in relation to card scans using watermarks and the existence of TCG One, the latter of which was referred to in the case as "an unauthorized version of [[Pokémon Trading Card Game Online|PTCGO]]". Other parts of the lawsuit also referenced [[Pokémon Showdown]] as an "Infringing Game". | |||
On September 8, 2015, the {{wp|United States District Court for the Western District of Washington}} ruled in favor of TPCi against Sahagian, ordering the site to end affiliation with TCG One, provide TPCi with all contact information Sahagian had for "all persons and/or entities involved with the creation, development, marketing, advertising, hosting, or distribution of TCG One", remove all card scans from the website, and destroy all copies of card scans and TCG One-related files, among other injunctions. | |||
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