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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[HRudyPlayZ]

I seriously hope people start to reupload all those addons online, as a big FU to Nintendo.
Seriously, the world would be a better place if they went bankrupt over being as crappy with their fandom as currently.

 

[Quore]

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

Miyamoto?? Are you okay?

He doesn't make Nintendo do all this shit

 

[daddu3]

At this rate I'm not surprised if around next month we'll see Pokecommunity-site get wiped - and possibly many other Nintendo-fansites getting cold feet and withdrawing their content in fear of getting the DMCA-hammer.

What a time to be a Nintendo-fan this year.

 

[NyaakoXD]

Nowhere is safe from Nintendo's sight.

 

[Metoroid0]

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

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i hope thats an official gif of LuiMario there. othervise, it will be DCMAd lol

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Why do companies hate their customers so much?

greed makes you blind, just like an anger.
anger and greed destroy the one who wields it.

 

[ShadowOne333]

Nowhere is safe from Nintendo's sight.

China and Russia are
And most likely almost the entirety of South America, Asia and Africa.

 

[SDA]

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

He created Mario, and he seems so proud about it, that no one shall give their appreciation with any fangame or whatever.

Miyamoto?? Are you okay?

He doesn't make Nintendo do all this shit

Well so who do you think is giving orders to Nintendo's legal team to send DMCAs?

 

[ShadowOne333]

Well so who do you think is giving orders to Nintendo's legal team to send DMCAs?

The actual CEO, share holder team and the investors?
Miyamoto hasn't been the CEO of Nintendo for decades, he shrugged that position off so he could continue producing and developing games.

 

[SDA]

The actual CEO, share holder team and the investors?
Miyamoto hasn't been the CEO of Nintendo for decades, he shrugged that position off so he could continue producing and developing games.

Which basically means he doesn't give a damn about all the shit that is going on.

(Sorry for my bad language, I'm just angry)

 

[Ligeia]

Screw Nintendo.

 

[PotatoStatic]

Honestly, my main handheld has just become the Steam Deck at this point. I still play my older handhelds and mess around with homebrew on my Switch. But I don't find myself really playing games on it anymore. I'm probably going to continue just getting PC handhelds in the future.

 

[Quore]

Which basically means he doesn't give a damn about all the shit that is going on.

(Sorry for my bad language, I'm just angry)

I believe he just doesn't have the power to go against the CEO and every person who controls Nintendo in general, because in the end, he's just an employee (the best one, but still just an employee)

 

[Bladexdsl]

Well so who do you think is giving orders to Nintendo's legal team to send DMCAs?

the new ceo he is a c***

 

[Kioku]

Absolutely petty. IP protection is one thing, but why this and why now?

 

[Faust03]

Absolutely petty. IP protection is one thing, but why this and why now?

Because they're a bunch of spiteful cocksuckers that absolutely HATE it when anyone does any funny fan stuff with their IPs (assuming that they're doing this stuff, I still have no idea)

 

[NakedFaerie]

Thats it, I've had enough of their bullsh!t. I'm NEVER going to buy ANYTHING nintenDONT again. Screw them.
I'll buy that new mig card and get my Switch hacked.
They miss out bigtime. Their loss.
The more you buy from them, the more money have have to do these lawsuits. We stop paying them, they cant sue anyone. easy as that.
So I'm going to do my part and give them no more money.
eat a huge bag of dicks nintenDONT!

 

[Ligeia]

check out all the comments (you won't be able to read them all over 4k!) they are fucking furious. a shitstorm is brewing that's going to crash with their dmcado

Hopefully they'll piss off their fans enough for their recent games to finally be recognized as the lazy mediocre cashgrabs they are.

 

[PotatoStatic]

I seriously hope people start to reupload all those addons online, as a big FU to Nintendo.
Seriously, the world would be a better place if they went bankrupt over being as crappy with their fandom as currently.

Technically speaking, GMod doesn't require servers to use workshop content. The servers can still serve their own assets off of their own server. This is only frowned upon because it clutters up your GMod folder and they're slightly harder to remove. A bunch of servers still do this.

 

[Ettino]

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

Are you Mark Wahlberg? Why do you hate Asian people? Who's next on your list? George Takei? Also do you do the hand thing that Italians love to do when they're i-rated?

Please direct your hate mail to:
Nintendo Co., Ltd. (11-1 Hokotate-cho, Kamitoba, Minami-ku, Kyoto 601-8501, Japan

 

[HRudyPlayZ]

Technically speaking, GMod doesn't require servers to use workshop content. The servers can still serve their own assets off of their own server. This is only frowned upon because it clutters up your GMod folder and they're slightly harder to remove. A bunch of servers still do this.

Yeah i know but someone still needs to archive those addons, that's what i meant