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Nintendo might just as well be a law firm more than a videogame company at this point in time, since they have yet again issued their now almost trademarked usual DMCA strike, this time against mods in the Steam Workshop for on the most popular Half Life 2 mod, Garry's mod (or Gmod as it's usually referred to).

The news broke out yesterday, on April 24th, as Garry Newman announced that he would be taking down all Nintendo-related items gathered and made throughout almost 20 years since the inception of Garry's Mod back in the mid 2000s from the Workshop due to a DMCA by Nintendo.
This caused speculation online, as it has been known that often some people completely unrelated to Nintendo send false DMCA strikes for projects that might contain Nintendo assets of any kind (with some of those falsely made strikes sent by a person named Aaron Peters), and Newman was made known about it, with a research about the source of the sent-DMCA strike begun shortly after.

However, in a recently made post by Newman himself, he stated that "the takedowns have been verified by Nintendo as legit", so the removal of Nintendo's items from the Workshop will continue as announced in his post from April 24th.

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This is yet another instance of a fan project being taken down by Nintendo, and it's unlikely this is gonna end anytime soon given their increasingly aggressive abuse of the DMCA for anything fan-related.

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Gary Bowser and Yuzu pushed Nintendo too far. Retaliations were inevitable. But people will be hacking Nintendo hardware and software for as long as there are Nintendo hardware and software. The status quo won't change. Like we need GitHub or official repositories/websites to share Nintendo models or tools or whatnot.
 
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This pales in comparison to other stuff like when a publisher has the rights to re-release a TV show on DVD they have to remove scenes containing people humming Beatles songs otherwise they get sued, or if there is a street scene with Coca Cola billboards in the background they have to remove them otherwise Coca Cola comes after them. A while ago I remember Apple was going after businesses that had the word apple or a icon of an apple in their business name, and they won.
 
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NoobletCheese said:
A while ago I remember Apple was going after businesses that had the word apple or a icon of an apple in their business name, and they won.
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Well, Apple does have the trademark for "Apple" in the trademark category of technology and software or whatever. If Apple doesn't defend their trademark then they risk losing it. Apple was a good idea for a computer business name, the opposite of the Microsofts and Compuglobalhypermeganet-type names that the boring and hard to learn computer makers usually used at the time. The logo too, an apple, very inviting compared to some scary Greek symbol or whatever.
 
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Imagine in 2024 caring that some random people on a different platform are using individual assets from your game for zero profit and with no intention of competing with you.
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SDA said:
I seriously want to kick Shigeru Miyamoto in the face right now.
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Why? The dude is just a figurehead these days. Focus on the people behind the scenes making the decisions. We are never seeing the real people doing this shit because of the corporation they are using to protect themselves. Abusing one of the faces accomplishes nothing.
 
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DragonMals said:
Thank goodness Newman confirmed everything that it was indeed a real takedown. I seriously loathe the direction of Nintendo. Makes me wonder why people still support them just as much as Apple to this day.
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Personally i still buy their games cuz theyre fun lol, but yeah as soon as nintendo starts showing serious signs of being wokeness..., then yeah, ill just dip immediately the frucksz out.
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DragonMals said:
Good thing that you still play the games, at least. I was about to say. I almost think that it's impossible for someone to not like Nintendo to buy their products but to avoid not playing their games, either unless other companies genuielly have more interest than Nintendo games overall
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I mean, its not like piracy gives monetary support to them anyways regardless lol, so playing pirated really does nothing to the company, other than maybe words of mouths shareingsz with friends for relatively and obscure games, something that nintendo games is definitely not lol.
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Well, Apple does have the trademark for "Apple" in the trademark category of technology and software or whatever. If Apple doesn't defend their trademark then they risk losing it. Apple was a good idea for a computer business name, the opposite of the Microsofts and Compuglobalhypermeganet-type names that the boring and hard to learn computer makers usually used at the time. The logo too, an apple, very inviting compared to some scary Greek symbol or whatever.
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The problem is that copyright law just needs a huge global reform, cuz most of this crap happening lately shouldnt even be a thing, every gaming company should provide tools for the community to run their own servers, whenever they shut down theirs for online multiplayers for 1ce, and if u stopsz sellingsz a games, then you should also stop legally prosecuting any1sbodyies acquiring it through piracy, but sadly we wont see any of these anytime soonsz..., wellsz, hopefullyierkrtrrdzszh the stopkillinggames campaign does smth on that front (that youtuber guy and the crewszh games btw just in case you werent in the knownsz about it).
 
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