Changes

The most enduring problem with DAMNATUS' release was a conflict of copyright laws in England and Germany. German copyright law confers the intellectual rights of created works to the people that created them, and thus Games Workshop would lose the rights to the intellectual property of Warhammer 40,000, on which DAMNATUS is based. Games Workshop has thus far refused to allow it to be shown, and has not changed this position despite online petitions and requests from the filmmakers. As a result, DAMNATUS was ended indefinitely indefinately on October 15, 2007. In late December 2008, a digital copy of the film, complete with English and German subtitles, was leaked via BitTorrents.

*'''10/15/2007''': [http://www.damnatus.com/news_popup.php?id=1989&language=english Damnatus "Exterminatus" - project ended indefinitely] ...*'''12/27/2008''': Damnatus fan-based movie leaked to the masses via torrents. Current available format is a 685 MB mpg4, with subtitle files (SRT) in English and Dutch. Expect fan-base DVD images with menus and other content to surf soon, as well as the inevitable attempts by Games Workshop to stop the spread of the movie. [http://gamegossip.com/forums/theater/103663-damnatus-leaked.html Leak announcement at Game Gossipindefinately]