This is not a click-bait. Activision did actually stole the photo by cropping the copyright watermark and used it in two games without mentioning the source. [Activision have no original file without watermark and with original EXIF data]
Everybody knows this games, it’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) and Modern Warfare Remastered (2016).
This is the story about the particular photo that appeared on a mission briefing to one of the most iconic Call of Duty missions called “All Ghillied Up“.
This is the story about how this photo was made in 2006 and what happened next...
Alexander Sirota is a Ukrainian photographer, journalist, filmmaker. As a former resident of Pripyat, he is an eyewitness and a victim of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. He devoted many articles, photographs, and video reports to the city of Pripyat and to the Chernobyl catastrophe. He is the editor-in-chief of the internet project ““ and the president of the International Pub