A fan-led campaign to change the ending of The Departed has come to an end.

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Adam Sacks, the man behind the Kickstarter campaign to fund a cut of the movie that does not feature the rat, announced on Twitter that the campaign had come to an end after Warner Bros. alleged the campaign infringed on its intellectual property."In order to comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Kickstarter had no choice but to take down my project to digitally erase the rat from the end of The Departed," Sacks wrote in his note on Twitter.The Kickstarter has been removed, and the fund-raising website only notes that the campaign "is the subject of an intellectual property dispute and is currently unavailable."Sacks had planned on purchasing 50 Blu-ray copies of the movie to alter the ending."I could fight this, but I checked my bank account, and I have far less money than Warner Brothers made off A Star Is Born in its 21st week in theaters alone (700,000 dollars. Very impressive!)," Sacks continued.The Departed, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio, has long been ridiculed for its use of a rat — an incredibly unsubtle metaphor for a film about uncovering rats in the mob and police department. Despite the criticism of this ending shot, the film did win Best Picture and earned Scorsese his first Oscar for Best Director.The campaign kicked off on February 19. In the introduction video for his campaign, Sacks called the use of the rat "such a painfully on-the-nose metaphor."Sacks concluded his Twitter note by calling on Warner Bros. to release a 4K Blu-ray version of the film.

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