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Holy shit, I can’t even imagine the amount of mods that will get erased. There were so many fan-mods, maps, minigames, models… Fucking Nintendo…

    • Igloojoe@lemm.eeEnglish
      441·
      8 months ago

      It sure will teach them never to be a nintendo fan again.

      • misanthropy@lemm.eeEnglish
        191·
        8 months ago

        Yep. I haven’t bought a Nintendo product in a long time, and it’s purely because they’re horrible custodians of their own products and brands and seem to actively hate their fans

      • Starkstruck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Fr, Nintendo isn’t going to get any more money out of people not using Nintendo addons. Instead they basically lose free advertising and make people dislike them even more. Shooting themselves in the foot again.

    • Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.worldEnglish
      404·
      8 months ago

      I get the sentiment here, but it is absolutely hilarious to compare gmod content to the library of alexandria.

      • Nutteman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        8 months ago

        Also wasn’t that library’s burning not as bad as everyone says? I thought we had copies of most of the stuff for some reason. Maybe I’m remembering wrong.

        • bigmclargehuge@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          8 months ago

          There was never really “a burning” that destroyed it in one go. Over many years, there were numerous factors that caused many of the works to be lost. Some were lost to smaller fires, some were stolen, some just disintegrated due to age. If no one bothered to copy them by hand to have more than one copy, that was that.

        • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          The library shrank over a long period due to the change in patronage, from rulers friendly to academia to some that had other priorities. The writings were taken to other places that were more interested in them. There was indeed a fire at some point but it only burned part of it and anyway by that time the collection was a fraction of what it used to be.

      • theonyltruemupf@feddit.deEnglish
        211·
        8 months ago

        There is no profit being made by harassing some innocent modders. If anything, projects like these are free advertising for Nintendo.

        • Chee_Koala@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          8 months ago

          Won’t you think of all that missed revenue because of IP misuse? It’s just as clear as with piracy: every unlawful download is 100% a sale the could have gotten, but didn’t . It’s simple geometry. We don’t need proof, because piracy bad. This IP misuse is just opening up the gate to further infringement, thus undermining their core business.

          Next up:

          Are you allowed to draw Super Mario from memory for your own personal joy? Find out how your own criminal history started all the way back in primary school.

          /s

          Stop publishing IP if you hate remixes and the global culture engaging with it you egotistical sack of people haters @ Nintendo

  • Icalasari@fedia.io
    638·
    8 months ago

    Apparently it’s not even Nintendo, but trolls. Just that this is such a Nintendo thing to do that GMod doesn’t want to even risk it

    EDIT: So the domain is owned by MarkMonitor, a service that monitors for copyright infringement and sends DMCAs. Nintendo HAS used them before. So that clears up any confusion there

  • OsaErisXero@kbin.run
    291·
    8 months ago

    One of these days a Corp is going to push hard enough they get their rights stripped away for not meeting the ‘to promote the progress of science and useful arts’ part of the copyright clause and i’m starting to wonder if the big N is going to be the winner.

      • OsaErisXero@kbin.run
        24·
        8 months ago

        Ya gotta remember that at its inception, at least in the US, copyright had 2 things going for it:

        The duration was limited to 14 years, not the death of the author +95 or fucking whatever it is currently, and that much of that duration would need to get burnt up in duplication and distribution of the work, all of which had significant costs associated with it. Hundred year long guarantees with unlimited instant reproduction of a work and instant mass distribution functionally for free would have been anathema at the time, and this kind of abuse of the system goes directly counter to the original as-written intent.

        Too bad those ‘originalists’ in the courts only use that concept to suppress women and minorities instead of maybe picking up a small W with it here.

    • p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      I actually feel like if Nintendo keeps this up, ar some point down the road, a majority of people are just gonna be done with them.

  • mistrgamin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    263·
    8 months ago

    Gonna fully sweep the workshop based off a claim that ‘might’ be Nintendo but won’t take down servers glorifying one of the worst points in human history

  • anon232@lemm.eeEnglish
    241·
    8 months ago

    This wouldn’t even be GMod’s responsibility? Valve owns the steam workshop, so anything violating DMCA should go to steam, not GMod. It’s not like GMod themselves are hosting the content.

  • Arbiter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    153·
    8 months ago

    Yeah, time to move away from the workshop.

    Can we go back to svn links for mods?

    • loobkoob@kbin.social
      19·
      8 months ago

      I don’t think the Steam Workshop is the issue here. I’m glad it exists, and direct downloads or snv links are still a reasonable alternative for mods that can’t be hosted on the Workshop for whatever reason.

      • Arbiter@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        8 months ago

        True the workshop is pretty dope.

        Just centralizing all mods in one spot is a bit iffy for situations like this.

  • p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    Good! Nintendo is a tiny indy company, and you shouldn’t be mad at them for this. How else will Miyamoto and Sakurai put food on the table? Think of poor Nintendo and all the billions of dollars these gMod creations cost them!

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    817·
    8 months ago

    I’m not surprised. For anyone using someone else’s material without permission, it’s just a matter of time.

    • p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      8 months ago

      Yeah, leave nintendo alone! This cost them billions of dollars in financial loss! /s

      People like you, I just can’t help but laugh.