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…
every couple months is a new burning of the library of alexandria
Garry's Mod to remove ALL Nintendo content from the Steam Workshop due to takedown
Submitted 7 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/4000/view/4200245595694413052?l=english
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moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I get the sentiment here, but it is absolutely hilarious to compare gmod content to the library of alexandria.
Nutteman@lemmy.world 7 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.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
All for the profits of a few people.
theonyltruemupf@feddit.de 7 months ago
There is no profit being made by harassing some innocent modders. If anything, projects like these are free advertising for Nintendo.
Icalasari@fedia.io 7 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
Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Where do you get that from?
xkforce@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They got it from a twitter post that never bothered looking up who owns the domain. The domain is owned by Nintendo of America Inc not some internet troll.
xkforce@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The domain is owned by nintendo.
Look up mm-nintindo.com on the icann search: lookup.icann.org/en/lookup
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 7 months ago
Fyi, you might want to add a notice to your post that lets people know that it appears to be part of an ongoing series of false-dmcas from someone using a fake Nintendo-lookalike domain.
xkforce@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is not true. Look up mm-nintendo.com on icann yourself to see who registered it.
samus12345@lemmy.world 7 months ago
dukatos@lemm.ee 7 months ago
The post says:
No, they still are. FacePunch believes they are real DMCA take downs, so they’re still going to take down the workshop addons out of fear.
OsaErisXero@kbin.run 7 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.
MamboGator@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Kinda like when Warner Music Group tried to strong arm the world over “Happy Birthday” but when they were finally challenged on it in court it was ruled that they never actually owned the copyright.
windie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Copyright and progress of science and arts is an oxymoron in my view.
OsaErisXero@kbin.run 7 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.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Lol, those rules are for you, not for Nintendo.
p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 7 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.
_Sprite@lemmy.world 7 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
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 7 months ago
History can’t sue you into oblivion for copyright infringement.
anon232@lemm.ee 7 months ago
This wouldn’t even be GMod’s responsibility? Steam owns the steam workshop, so anything violating DMCA should go to steam, not GMod. It’s not like GMod themselves are hosting the content.
Daxtron2@startrek.website 7 months ago
20 years they’ve had to DMCA this. They should lose the right to do so after that long.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Why? It’s explicated unrated online content not covered by any terms.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
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 problemcontent
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Because it’s probably trolls, not Nintendo
Arbiter@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, time to move away from the workshop.
Can we go back to svn links for mods?
loobkoob@kbin.social 7 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.world 7 months ago
True the workshop is pretty dope.
Just centralizing all mods in one spot is a bit iffy for situations like this.
Moneo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
13 yo me had so much trouble with SVN. Thanks for the flashbacks.
Arbiter@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Hope you eventually got the stargate mod working.
catloaf@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I’m not surprised. For anyone using someone else’s material without permission, it’s just a matter of time.
p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, leave nintendo alone!
Lizardking27@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Is garrysmod.org still a thing?
samus12345@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Apparently not.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
So many SFM videos that use Link and Mario models straight up ripped from their games will no longer be made. :(
p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 7 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!
NoneYa@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Think of all the money Nintendo lost over people playing that custom content that was paying homage to their beloved titles! Man, sure glad Nintendo scared them into taking those down.
Igloojoe@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It sure will teach them never to be a nintendo fan again.
misanthropy@lemm.ee 7 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
samus12345@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s a lot easier to be a Nintendo fan if you’re also a pirate!
Starkstruck@lemmy.world 7 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.