Seriously wtf is up Nintendo’s ass lately. They’ve always been litigious but the last few years have been pretty extreme.
It appears to be part of a series of fake DMCAs. Some asshat has been going around dmca-ing sfm, Gmod, and tf2 maps under different names with a lookalike email domain.
The fact that DMCA requests don’t have to be signed with an asymmetric key that lets you validate the company that sent it was actually behind the request is some of the dumbest shit.
We’ve known how to use certs online forever. Certainly well before the DMCA. Why the fuck wasn’t that a provision?
Oh right because our politicians are tech illiterate apes.
Maybe a new head of department?
Or overcompensation since they acted on emulators and found out there’s more to this? Someone’s started another useless crusade.
I fear they’re not going to stop here either. Soon we’ll read news about Minecraft mods and other fan content as well. Backup everything.
The emulator is more likely that the Switch 2 was supposed to be released this year and ended up getting pushed to next year. This means they have to support the Switch fully for another year and it’s a harder sell when it’s easy for customers to make a choice between:
- A Switch and 3ish games
Or
- A Steam Deck that can play all the Switch games for free
When these are both the same price. The fact that instructions were easy to find and follow didn’t help.
They’re like Japanese Disney. They’re nothing without their IP and they know it.
They also know that the only reason they have DK as a character is because Universal dropped the ball in protecting their IP. If they let Garry’s Mod casually have a “Mario” character in it, it dilutes their ability to legally go after some other studio who straight up makes an unofficial Mario game.
I wonder if there being an R4 style cart released recently for the switch has lit a fire under their arses
Maybe they expanded their legal department recently
According to a comment on another post on lemmy. The takedown notice is fake, probably sent by some troll. Garry’s Mod is still removing stuff though, because they think it’s real.
Source: https://twitter.com/MonikaCinnyRoll/status/1783244871119106415
How efficient is it to antagonize people that are actively promoting your own content for free on other platforms? Does this actually work for Nintendo?
People that don’t know of this (or don’t care) will indiscriminately buy their products. To unseat them it would require a handheld that targets the same market and a killer game for that handheld.
I guess they antagonize anyone that has moderate exposure using their IP
In some countries copyright law says that if you let people use your copyrighted material with little to no impediment then you cannot suddenly request whoever is using your material to stop
Let’s say that Nintendo allows fans to make fan made Mario games for 5 years. Then they suddenly sue everyone and say “hey you have to pay for copyright or shutdown”. A judge can decide that since they didn’t enforce their copyright for some time they cannot sue people that are using their IP.
From a legal perspective the act of policing your own copyrighted material is the company’s responsibility. This law prevents companies from relaxing their copyright claims for years (essentially allowing people to use it) and then suing everyone for using their IP. In other words Just let everyone use it, then sue them. The law is there to prevent that
Nintendo is likely super strict because “let people use your copyrighted material with little to no impediment” has room for interpretation in a court room. So they go to the conservative side and shut down everyone. Also consider that they’re right next to China. The piracy capital of the world. It’s not a surprise they’re scared about their copyright.
I’m not saying that what they’re doing is right. It’s not. But I see where it comes from.
Nintendont,
the law-suite company that makes games on the side, strikes again…We’re well beyond the point by now of me ever buying anything from them again.
I won’t support such behavior of any company.https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Nintendont_Wii
I fuck with Nintendont.
You commented a couple hours after someone pointed out it was fake. Guess the troll was successful with damaging Nintendo.
Oh no, that poor corporation! 😢
Anyway,
Did not know that,
however it won’t make me change up my mind about Nintendont.All their previous law-suites and takedowns against the modding and emulation communities, where not fake, nor trolls, and made me despise them.
Nintendo strikes again.
You’re… planning to do WHAT to the goombas?!
I heard if you go into your bathroom and turn off the lights. Then close your eyes and spin around three times well saying “Nintendo, Nintendo, Nintendo!”
It will summon their lawyers and they will drag you to court through your bathroom mirror for violating copyright.
Nintendo 🤝 Disney
No fun allowed
Nintendo have permanently lost a customer in me because of their recent behaviour.
Their games have been easily pirated for a while anyways
I have been a massive Nintendo fan since Donkey Kong in the arcades and have played every Zelda and Mario came that has ever come out on every console they put them on, but I stopped a year ago because how ugly they have become. I cannot support Nintendo anymore.
My laptop sucks though so I can really only run anything up to Super Nintendo on it
“you’re appreciating our games wrong”
As the parent of a small child I wish I could boycott Nintendo.
You could introduce your child to emulation :)
Another year or two…
Problem is that Nintendo for all their faults still make GREAT games for kids. And if adult pc gamers think they have it bad they should have a look at the predatory shitshow that is tablet games for the 5 and under market… its properly fucking ridiculous. At least Nintendo has the common decency to give me an amazing and full game for its eyewatering prices.
the indie space still has a ton of stuff. you lose the benefit of always having accessibility features and easy ui navigation depending on the game (although a ton of indie games have better modding and accessibility support than a lot of high budget games as of recently, just in case they come to be interested), but you still get to see a ton of different stuff.
- Celeste
- OneShot
- Rythm Doctor
- Terraria (has android ver.)
- A Dance Of Fire And Ice (has android ver.)
- MiniMetro (has android ver.)
- ShatteredPixelDungeon (has android ver.)
- StuntRally
- Mindustry (has android ver.)
- HyperRogue (has android ver.)
- SuperMeatBoy
- Don’t Starve
- Undertale/Deltarune (have unofficial android ver.)
- Sky Rogue
- SuperTuxKart (has android ver.)
most of these without coming close to Nintendo’s approach to fan works, so i’d say you’re not going to lose much if you know the right places.
if you want games for Android, Mitch is a third-party access to itch.io, a game store where you can by the game and get the game straight into a zip file or what-have-you. no DRM, no questions asked. about half the games i mentioned are in there without the predatory behavior most of the time.
Geeze.
Well it’s time for the broken clock to be right for once. Gmod is not a safe place for kids and it absolutely should not have kids content on it.
Fixed:
Gmod is not a safe place for kids and it absolutely should not have kids
contenton it.
