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…
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.
It sure will teach them never to be a nintendo fan again.
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
Where do you get that from?
every couple months is a new burning of the library of alexandria
All for the profits of a few people.
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.
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.
Copyright and progress of science and arts is an oxymoron in my view.
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.
Lol, those rules are for you, not for Nintendo.
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.
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
History can’t sue you into oblivion for copyright infringement.
Yeah, time to move away from the workshop.
Can we go back to svn links for mods?
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.
13 yo me had so much trouble with SVN. Thanks for the flashbacks.
Is garrysmod.org still a thing?
So many SFM videos that use Link and Mario models straight up ripped from their games will no longer be made. :(
I’m not surprised. For anyone using someone else’s material without permission, it’s just a matter of time.
