Because Trademark Law isn’t enforced by police, it’s done on the discretion of the trademark holder.

@Background Pony  
Let’s not forget there favorite fan game that they seem not to be doing anything about to get banned (pun intended) even though the should, banned from equestia daily.

Because light-hearted fighting games severely undermine the message of FiM (friendship and cooperation).
 
Storylines involving chainsawing your friends, drug and alcohol abuse, sex, and crude humor can at least end on a friendship related message. So they promote FiM’s message.
 
Same reason Friendship is Witchcraft got taken down but Hasbro doesn’t care about Cupcakes/CloudFactory/Cheerliee’sGarden/etc. All in the message.

Because the Pony.Mov series cannot in any way be mistaken for official Hasbro product.

Maybe Max Gilardi got one and he just didn’t want to say anything about it to keep people waiting for swag.mov.

@Sound Mind  
And yet Parodies get taken down. We’re living in a time where Copyright is not a law, but a Kill SAT.

Oh and to contribute to this fight about C&D, did you guys know that the sonic community created their own hd remake of sonic? Yup. Kotaku covered it and everything.
 
Sega didn’t do jack shit about it. It’s not licenced under sega and they let the developers keep up the game. Sega didn’t even lose the rights to sonic. Here’s the site if you want to check it out: http://www.sonicfanremix.com/

@boz  
No idea, as I’m a tea-sucking limey bastard and never had them blocked.

for the same reason Weird Al isn’t breaking any laws when he parodies other artists’ songs.  
Parody is protected BY the law from Copyright Infringement.

@Background Pony
 
Bad explanation, bad analogy. MLP isn’t a franchise that shows lack of interest in the property by the proper rights holders. That “sue or lose” aspect would apply to, as an example, the various C&Ds that Square sent out a few years ago to the groups remaking Chrono Trigger after the franchise was dead for so long, or any group making something using an IP and profiting off it; but it doesn’t apply to a franchise that is still ongoing and being used.
 

 
And are you seriously deluded enough to think that this is the first time in the history of the United States that someone has complained about those provisions of copyright law? Because that would be the only context that the last paragraph would hold any relevance.

@TenchiFreak5  
There’s a reason that copyright law stipulates that you defend your property or lose the rights. lack of interest in the property means you either don’t care about it or have forgotten it. You can’t simply have that property just lying around, and taking up space, so you put the rights up for sale or make it public domain.
 
You ever put food in the fridge, forget about it, then have someone else eat it? It’s like that. You need to show you care about your product because if you don’t, the government won’t waste time putting you out to dry.
 
This is getting absurd, seeing people whine and moan about a company that’s actually quite lenient when it comes to fan content compared to other companies, then have the audacity to call it “unfair” when they enforce their rights. Fuck this gay earth, seriously, fuck it.

@Background Pony
 
Of course it is Hasbro’s property to do as they see fit. That’s not the issue. The problem is that that’s not actually a defense of the part of the law that specifies that you need to target all works that you didn’t approve and threaten legal action to have them removed or you lose the rights to the property.
 
 
Hence how every time something like this happens the response is usually “they had to do it even if they didn’t want to.”

This is the first time I’ve seen someone attempt to claim that copyright laws are fair and that if you disagree you are butthurt. Finally, someone brave enough to stand up for the poor multinational corporations.

@RIG  
Yes, it’s not my property, it’s their property.

Yes, the copyright laws are unfair, I should be able to take someone’s franchise do all sorts of shit to it however I want and not have to answer to anyone because companies suck because they have money and they’re greedy and whine, whine, whine, whine.

“if someone uses your IP even if is not profit you will lost that IP”  
you call that fair?

@RIG  
Our copyright laws are quite fair so I think you need to get over your butthurt .

Who is to say that he won’t get one in the future?

@RIG
 
This. If you’re gonna have a petition, petition the government to fix that.

you all are wrong, the main problem was america stupid copyright law.

@Background Pony  
Did you notice the difference though? In canterlot wedding we rarely ever saw the punches actually land directly.

I think the main problem was that Fighting is Magic was too high quality. People could have easily thought it was an official game, and Hasbro didn’t like that because it involved fighting and all.

Only a court judge can hand out a Cease and Desist.
 
All Hasbro did was send a letter threatening a lawsuit.

They’d have to give one to thousands of people with popular pony videos as well which isn’t practical. I’m surprised I have to point this out,
 
The games are few and far between but the videos are numerous. Plus they’d use DMCA not a C&D

@Muffinshire
 
They aren’t already back in the U.S.?  
I don’t know cause I’m canadian, but if after so long they aren’t back I won’t expect them to ever be.