The US Government stole music from Yoshi’s Island DS for their flash game about recycling. Do you think Nintendo will take action?
Fun fact: The United States government stole the underground theme in Yoshi's Island DS for the Enviornmental Protection Agency's flash game about recycling. The song can be heard right after pressing the start button. pic.twitter.com/TpMI6l8NSh
— Forest of Illusion (@forestillusion) February 16, 2019
by OctoPlusle
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TIL The US government used Yoshi’s Island DS music and that they made a flash game about recycling
But to answer your question I’m sure they got approval from Nintendo in some way even if its not public
If they were fully honest about their quality, they would have used Yoshi’s New Island music.
~~okay i’ll stop with the New Island bashing combo, this is the third post i’ve done today with that~~
I’d say it’s a good example of recycling
everybody be complainin about Yoshi stealin from the government when the government stole from Yoshi 👀
Don’t very much see the point. Seems like a lot of effort to expend to claim right over decade old music.
Surely Nintendo has the right to sue, but it’s really not worth the legal costs. Especially since NO ONE will be playing a government made recycling game…
Yoshi wouldn’t dare to take action about this, it might draw his history of tax fraud to the government’s attention.
And they said Yoshi was a lawless tax fraud.
Today I learned, “Pokemon Go to the polls!” may have been product placement
Stealing? Nah it’s just apart of Yoshi’s community service fulfillment from his indictment for tax fraud.
Nintendo owns the Seattle Mariners. The US Government mandated an investigation into steroid use in professional baseball. One of the steroid users that was caught was former Mariner and then New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez
In the 90’s Nintendo and Joseph Lieberman waged a smear campaign against Nintendo’s biggest rival Sega, setting off a series of events that eventually led to Sega getting out of the console market.
Nintendo and the US government are in bed together! Wake up sheeple!
I think this is retaliation against Yoshi’s blatant tax fraud
This was a low-budget game that was made by some part of the government who outsourced it to the cheapest bidder. The bidder grabbed the mp3 knowing that no one would know, collected their paycheque and saw themselves out. It sucks – hopefully they just replace the mp3 file.
They should’ve taken music from Yoshi’s New Island
They’ll sue, and the we can finally establish the Republic of Nintendo of America
best part is the name of the song has a link on the gov site… so i get to listen to it for free on the Gov. Dime
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[https://www3.epa.gov/recyclecity/challenge/music/yoshidsunderground.mp3](https://www3.epa.gov/recyclecity/challenge/music/yoshidsunderground.mp3)
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Plot twist: The government had the song all along and let Nintendo borrow it.
What are some good cases in which Nintendo did not sue for copyright material? Project M never got sued, right? Pokemon Uranium got shut down same as Metroid AM2R. I know these are a lot bigger than using some music, but Nintendo is certainly known to be pretty strict on this stuff.
If they didn’t have permission, I hope Nintendo do say something. A US government contractor should know better.
I’m an indie game developer working on a shoe-string budget and I take great care to make sure I credit my sources and check the terms of all my assets. I value the contributions of others and It isn’t difficult.
The US Government seized the rights to Yoshi game music when they raided Yoshi’s Island for tax fraud
NSFW : https://www3.epa.gov/recyclecity/challenge/js/swearWords.js
Nintendo will pursue legal action against anyone nobody how it damages their reputation.
Yeah, fuck em up, Nintendo.
This is the funniest fucking headline I’ve ever read, every word was a emotional roller coaster
To repay Nintendo, Yoshi is permitted to commit tax fraud for life.
_a few hours later_
In an unprecedented turn of events, world war III has begun, after a nuclear attack on the United states from Japan.
Nah, I don’t think Nintendo will take action.
If the government isn’t making money off of selling the game, I’m not sure there are any damages to sue for?
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They removed the music from the game as of now, but it seems they did it poorly, since the file is still on the server and the game gives me JavaScript errors due to not being able to find a song to play in game.
Still, it’s amusing that Yoshi’s Island DS music made it into a game like this. Such a random, obscure choice to be honest.
Seems like they removed the song now.
[the plot thickens](https://twitter.com/forestillusion/status/1098330750510723072?s=21)
I can’t hear the music. I think it got removed already.
aaaaaand they removed the song
Yoshi didn’t pay his taxes so the government confiscated his assets. It’s fair game
https://youtu.be/cCI9t1ia0c0
There’s the song, fam
Of course they will. Someone could sneeze the theme for clu clu land and they would take them to court
This whole mess could’ve been avoided if Yoshi had just paid his damn taxes
Does this mean the government can’t try Yoshi for tax fraud now?