It's not every day that we see a story come down the pike that combines topical news of exploding cell phones, game modifications, and issues of copyright legality into a single cocktail of pure Ars catnip. Today is one of those days, though, since phone maker Samsung has issued a seemingly frivolous DMCA takedown notice for a video showing a Grand Theft Auto V mod that features a Galaxy Note 7 as an explosive weapon.

As Techdirt reports, the video titled "GTA 5 MOD - Samsung Galaxy Note 7 (bomb)" is "no longer available due to a copyright claim by Samsung Electronics America, Inc. and its affiliates," according to its YouTube page . Before the takedown, the video appears to have been a simple gameplay recording of this "Samsung Galaxy Note 7 [Bomb]" mod , from modder HitmanNiko, which replaces Grand Theft Auto V's sticky bombs with a 3D model of the famously defective (and now discontinued ) phone.

It's not clear if the takedown was automated or manually requested by the phone maker, but you can still find plenty of other videos on YouTube showing that mod in action, so Samsung doesn't appear to be casting a wide net over all such videos as of yet.

The mod itself is pretty clearly a ripped-from-the-headlines, satirical social commentary, as is any video that simply shows it in action. This is almost definitely not the kind of thing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was designed to stop (not that Samsung is the first to misuse the law to stop videos that are more embarrassing than infringing).

Funnily enough, if developer Rockstar or publisher Take Two wanted to take issue with the video's use ofassets, it would probably be within its rights to do so . Maybe Samsung could lean on its friends in the game industry for some support here. Or it could just focus on fixing its phones.