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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[Bladexdsl]

iwata dying and his NEW replacement is the worst thing to ever happen to nintendo! they are a soulless company now i actually think they are worse than apple i didn't think that was possible!!

 

[CoolMe]

Good thing Jazz Jackrabbit & Lola Bunny aren't Nintendo property otherwise they'd have DMCA'd poor @Luke94 to high heaven..

 

[RetroNerdGamer]

nah, nintendo is doing this on a pretty regular bases. they just enjoy bullying. thats all.

I mean, they've done stuff in the past, I'm not denying that. What I am saying right now though is that since 2021 with Metroid Dread up till 2023 with TotK people have been playing the games on emulator at least a few days to a week before release and it seems the past year it really has gotten worse as they are just firing in all directions at this point.
I mean really, 20 or so years with Gmod and NOW is when they're attacking it?

 

[LightBeam]

Seems weird that it could actually be Nintendo, tbh, but it's not like they're incapable of doing this kind of shit.


They hate their fans and we will never say it enough.

 

[SaberLilly]

Geez Louise Nintendo, i mean i have heard of protecting your IP, but this is just ridiculous! Good thing i don't really buy new stuff from them anymore, and i'm not afraid to pirate the games i want for the older hardware.

 

[SaulFabre]

F*CK THIS.
F*CK THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DONT BE TOXIC SH*TENDO!!!!!!!!!!!

im gonna gun down them NOW. @DJPlace are you there??

 

[osaka35]

Wow, the big three really are going as hard as they can for last place, aren't they? Yar har, the pirate and used life for me.

Too bad. Why do companies hate their customers so much?

 

[Ryab]

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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.

​

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.

Source

I'm kinda shocked it took this long. They targeted a lot of smaller things but didn't go for one of the biggest until now.

 

[Quore]

iwata dying and his NEW replacement is the worst thing to ever happen to nintendo! they are a soulless company now i actually think they are worse than apple i didn't think that was possible!!

I've always said that Nintendo is basically the Apple in terms of console gaming

But dayum, every week they show to everyone that they're kinda worse then Apple

 

[ShadowOne333]

I've always said that Nintendo is basically the Apple in terms of console gaming

But dayum, every week they show to everyone that they're kinda worse then Apple

Disney, Apple and Nintendo are like the demoniacal trifecta of their respective industries.

 

[Ryab]

Good. That's how people should be feeling towards Nintendo since they started doing all this shit.
Hopefully this gets to more and more people and this starts biting them in the ass in sales later on.

We all know that won't happen. These past 6 years have been some of the most successful in their history.

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I've always said that Nintendo is basically the Apple in terms of console gaming

But dayum, every week they show to everyone that they're kinda worse then Apple

Only difference is Apple's console was a complete commercial failure.

 

[Quore]

Disney, Apple and Nintendo are like the demoniacal trifecta of their respective industries.

You're right, this sucks alot
And unfortunately I can't even imagine a world where they change this way of working.

 

[NitroRevolutionNX]

Nintendo, if you read this: screw you seriously! People can't have shit without you DMCAing EVERYTHING huh?

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Disney, Apple and Nintendo are like the demoniacal trifecta of their respective industries.

I couldn't said it better myself. Thanks Shadow!

 

[Quore]

Nintendo, if you read this: screw you seriously! People can't have shit without you DMCAing EVERYTHING huh?

My best answer for this whole situation is simple:

 

[NitroRevolutionNX]

My best answer for this whole situation is simple:

When i saw this article, it reminded me of this:

Screw you Nintendo!

 

[ShadowOne333]

My best answer for this whole situation is simple:

Nintendo, if you read this: screw you seriously! People can't have shit without you DMCAing EVERYTHING huh?

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I couldn't said it better myself. Thanks Shadow!

My love letter to Nintendo each time something like this happens:

 

[Quore]

My love letter to Nintendo each time something like this happens:

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OOH one mor thing. You compared Nintendo with Apple and Disney, but we've forgot about Ferrari.
Ferrari and Nintendo work (kinda) literally the same way, their products are really good, but their administrative part is horrible. Always suing everyone who makes everything about them

 

[ShadowOne333]

OOH one mor thing. You compared Nintendo with Apple and Disney, but we've forgot about Ferrari.
Ferrari and Nintendo work (kinda) literally the same way, their products are really good, but their administrative part is horrible. Always suing everyone who makes everything about them

Ferrari is kinda out of my league, and I think most other people as well lol
But in terms of media entertainment, it's always those 3 that are assholes towards their fans and the costumer.

 

[SDA]

I seriously want to kick Shigeru Miyamoto in the face right now.

 

[Ryab]

I seriously want to kick Shigeru Miyamoto in the face right now.

Yes because as we all know he is the mastermind behind the entire company.