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…

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

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        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

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        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.

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    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

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    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.

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        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.

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      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.

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    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.

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    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

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      They are still beholden to copyright, just like you would be if you hosted a rom distribution website

      If you are notified then you have to remove the problem content

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    Yeah, time to move away from the workshop.

    Can we go back to svn links for mods?

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      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.

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        True the workshop is pretty dope.

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

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    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!

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

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

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