Garry’s Mod is taking down Nintendo-related Steam Workshop add-ons due to a takedown notice from Nintendo.
Garry’s Mod is taking down Nintendo-related Steam Workshop add-ons due to a takedown notice from Nintendo.
by GoogalyBoy-the-10th
28 Comments
TerminatorJDM
ridiculous
Alive_Maintenance943
Can Nintendo not be a piece of worthless shit for 5 minutes?
Fuck, just let people have fun.
-radialspeeen
Ready for the angry commenters to waste their breath defending IP theft. Valve has no claim to Nintendo’s property, no point arguing about it!
Beenz64
As lame as it is, it’s probably fair enough
QF_Dan
Again….bruh
LonkySneak963
From research, add ons related to Nintendo have been getting DMCA’d by a fraudster since February at the earliest to my knowledge.
Either Nintendo noticed and went for the coup de grace or the Gmod team fell for a fake DMCA.
KazzieMono
Booooooooooo. Lame.
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mrassface2023
Shitendo
Atcraft
I’m already seeing the Nintendo fanboys claiming that this is harmful to Nintendo, it isn’t, the only reason Nintendo can do this is because Japan has no Fair Use laws at all.
Edit: lmao got a death threat, really?
Hedghoglive24butim44
Most likely this is just someone copyright abusing and isn’t actually Nintendo, it’s very unlikely Nintendo would actually do this
TheCoolBus2520
What’s the big deal here honestly?
I’m trying to figure out what could be the overlap between “worth getting upset over” and “totally not IP theft”. What is everyone in the comments whining about losing access to?
PrinssayEvaieMon9
Awesome, next.
kirbydark714
Someone is doing it, claiming to work for Nintendo, but not actually being a part of em. So, it’s fake Nintendo.
Poopeefighter2001
i should have expected people here to be full d rider over nintendo but still kinda disappointed
Tail_sb
Nintendo at what point will you stop
SuitFive
True or not fuck Nintendy. They do shit like this all the time. More than that they lost my loyalty after the end of Smash.
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Lucky-Mia
Sometimes I really hate Nintendo as a company, gee wiz.
UmaBatataFrita
Is it just me, or is Nintendo being unnecessarily aggressive this year?
Not that they weren’t there before, but recently I’ve been noticing a lot more.
It’s funny that Dreams on PS4/PS5 suffered something similar a while ago, but you can still find several creations with Nintendo IPs there, even a clone of Super Mario Wonder before the release of Super Mario Wonder:
Damn, the Pokemon and Mario Ragdolls are what made the game for me :'( I used to make animations too, will this effect SFM as well?
Kido402
NO! I I’M STILL STRUGGLING WITH THE NINJALA DMCA! PLZ DON’T TAKE MARIO AND SPLATOON AWAY!
Luigiemblem18
My question is if this will affect other games that use the Steam workshop like Tower Unite. Will all my Nintendo avatars be safe there or are they screwed too? 🤔
AssCrackBanditHunter
IP law is a fucking joke. People basically mashing around digital action figures and they get dinged for it.
NO_SPACE_B4_COMMA
It’s never smart to use copyrighted materials.
Hot-Flounder-4186
This seems incredibly unfair to the people who made the mods. Copyright laws are incredibly unfair.
This does seem relatively innocuous at first, especially because of the laughable reference to the nonexistent Boise, Arkansas…but the thing is, if you look that address up in Boise, Idaho, you’ll find Tracer AI, a company that provides brand protection tools using AI and machine learning. Not directly on Google Maps, though, but you’ll see their logo on Street View and the address is displayed on Tracer’s website. So what do Tracer’s tools do?
According to them, they “use Human-in-the-Loop AI and machine learning to dramatically shorten the time from detection to enforcement by intelligently automating the review process and automatically offer an enforcement recommendation.”
Yeah…AI may well responsible for this mess, especially with the email itself mentioning AI. And I’m not sure what possibility disturbs me more: Nintendo themselves contracting this company to handle enforcement of their IP rights, or a copyright troll managing to abuse their tools in this way. The GMod Workshop is apparently not the only corner of the Internet that’s been hit with these peculiar Nintendo-related takedowns in the last couple months, too.
I can’t wait for the day that these old fucks at Nintendo step down and younger blood comes up so MAYBE there will be some change in the horrible practices at Nintendo.
Hard to remain a fan until I remember it’s not the people who make the games who do this shit.
28 Comments
ridiculous
Can Nintendo not be a piece of worthless shit for 5 minutes?
Fuck, just let people have fun.
Ready for the angry commenters to waste their breath defending IP theft. Valve has no claim to Nintendo’s property, no point arguing about it!
As lame as it is, it’s probably fair enough
Again….bruh
From research, add ons related to Nintendo have been getting DMCA’d by a fraudster since February at the earliest to my knowledge.
Either Nintendo noticed and went for the coup de grace or the Gmod team fell for a fake DMCA.
Booooooooooo. Lame.
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Shitendo
I’m already seeing the Nintendo fanboys claiming that this is harmful to Nintendo, it isn’t, the only reason Nintendo can do this is because Japan has no Fair Use laws at all.
Edit: lmao got a death threat, really?
Most likely this is just someone copyright abusing and isn’t actually Nintendo, it’s very unlikely Nintendo would actually do this
What’s the big deal here honestly?
I’m trying to figure out what could be the overlap between “worth getting upset over” and “totally not IP theft”. What is everyone in the comments whining about losing access to?
Awesome, next.
Someone is doing it, claiming to work for Nintendo, but not actually being a part of em. So, it’s fake Nintendo.
i should have expected people here to be full d rider over nintendo but still kinda disappointed
Nintendo at what point will you stop
True or not fuck Nintendy. They do shit like this all the time. More than that they lost my loyalty after the end of Smash.
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Sometimes I really hate Nintendo as a company, gee wiz.
Is it just me, or is Nintendo being unnecessarily aggressive this year?
Not that they weren’t there before, but recently I’ve been noticing a lot more.
It’s funny that Dreams on PS4/PS5 suffered something similar a while ago, but you can still find several creations with Nintendo IPs there, even a clone of Super Mario Wonder before the release of Super Mario Wonder:
[https://twitter.com/i/status/1701088150175490136](https://twitter.com/i/status/1701088150175490136)
Damn, the Pokemon and Mario Ragdolls are what made the game for me :'( I used to make animations too, will this effect SFM as well?
NO! I I’M STILL STRUGGLING WITH THE NINJALA DMCA! PLZ DON’T TAKE MARIO AND SPLATOON AWAY!
My question is if this will affect other games that use the Steam workshop like Tower Unite. Will all my Nintendo avatars be safe there or are they screwed too? 🤔
IP law is a fucking joke. People basically mashing around digital action figures and they get dinged for it.
It’s never smart to use copyrighted materials.
This seems incredibly unfair to the people who made the mods. Copyright laws are incredibly unfair.
The plot has seriously thickened.
[https://twitter.com/brewsterkoopa/status/1780255004747595782?t=wOEHCiZlDx1AxdMbSZrlEQ&s=19](https://fxtwitter.com/brewsterkoopa/status/1780255004747595782?t=wOEHCiZlDx1AxdMbSZrlEQ&s=19)
This does seem relatively innocuous at first, especially because of the laughable reference to the nonexistent Boise, Arkansas…but the thing is, if you look that address up in Boise, Idaho, you’ll find Tracer AI, a company that provides brand protection tools using AI and machine learning. Not directly on Google Maps, though, but you’ll see their logo on Street View and the address is displayed on Tracer’s website. So what do Tracer’s tools do?
According to them, they “use Human-in-the-Loop AI and machine learning to dramatically shorten the time from detection to enforcement by intelligently automating the review process and automatically offer an enforcement recommendation.”
Yeah…AI may well responsible for this mess, especially with the email itself mentioning AI. And I’m not sure what possibility disturbs me more: Nintendo themselves contracting this company to handle enforcement of their IP rights, or a copyright troll managing to abuse their tools in this way. The GMod Workshop is apparently not the only corner of the Internet that’s been hit with these peculiar Nintendo-related takedowns in the last couple months, too.
Can’t take the credit for finding this, though. AdBmaster on Twitter was the one to do the digging. I just decided to verify the details myself, and yeah – they don’t look pretty.
[https://twitter.com/AdBmaster/status/1783279247466885337](https://twitter.com/AdBmaster/status/1783279247466885337)
[https://twitter.com/AdBmaster/status/1783289175392846284](https://twitter.com/AdBmaster/status/1783289175392846284)
I can’t wait for the day that these old fucks at Nintendo step down and younger blood comes up so MAYBE there will be some change in the horrible practices at Nintendo.
Hard to remain a fan until I remember it’s not the people who make the games who do this shit.