Yes, Nintendo Is Copyright Striking Garry's Mod...

Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we take a look at a situation where 20 years worth of modding is at risk if it's anywhere near Nintendo related due to a new campaign by the legal team at Nintendo of America. Garry's Mod is a gaming icon and the modding community runs deep in relation to it and currently a mass takedown of mods are occuring if they feature any Nintendo made asset. Thanks for watching!
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[@Rileytheworkerdrone]

Nintendo would sue Albert Einstein for looking slightly like Mario. Edit: how come my worst comments get so much attention but the comments I put effort in get 50 likes?

[@afterhourscinema782]

😂 E=N64 squared

[@andrive]

Damn

[@CrispyPotatoChip]

Nintendo would go after small foundation old projects for facilitating emulation too

[@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398]

It doesn't seem like a gag anymore: I could be donning a red and yellow color scheme, with logos on my chest rather then on a hat... ONLY FOR BIG N TO STILL IGNORANTLY SUE.

[@ThatMetalheadMan]

or literally anyone Italian or who has a mustache or has wears overalls. Or any combination of those.

[@the_letter_5579]

At this point I am convinced that Nintendo will eventually go to war with Italy for having a large portion of its population being named Mario and Luigi

[@Oh_sorry_theres_no_handle]

*Who would win* A large multibillion dollar company that is very angry or A couple noodle and pie bois

[@purremocat]

​@DarkForce2024 let's not forget that in Assassin's creed 2 Mario even says, "It's a me, mario"😂😂

[@mjdevlog]

Might be a dumb question but can a certain representative of Italy sue Nintendo for stereotyping/misrepresentation?

[@anonymoususer638]

@@mjdevlog If it's the same as American law, you could sue them for anything but it would go nowhere as those things are not demonstrably damaging in any way.

[@gamelaine]

if anything italy should sue nintendo for using their names

[@Luigikid]

Just waiting to get DMCA'd for being called Luigikid and use a custom Luigi character to represent me 🫠

[@breexthehedgehog6131]

Holy shit didn't expect to see YOU here 😂

[@M64bros]

You're going to be fine

[@Mavendow]

I'm pretty sure that's sufficiently transformative. They might file a suit anyway, ofc, them being Nintendo and all.

[@Swelteringheat]

@@Mavendow And our protagonist spoke up; "Let them come."

[@Sai-gp3pq]

My boy I love your videos since 2013

[@HortenseCGroce]

Nintendo legal works infinitely harder than any of their development teams. Absolute joke of a company tbh.

[@Irosicndosjnf]

Wahoo!

[@suuslime3908]

To be fair, with the amount of money a Nintendo lawyer makes, i'd happily swallow my pride and sit at my desk filling DMCA forms all day long!

[@dylancoykendall554]

@@suuslime3908if they put a fraction of the money and passion into games that they do lawsuits we’d have masterpieces

[@Bozebo]

Now hang on a second, the actual quality of their games is also really really really really good. Personally I don't like the gameplay design directions recently, but the quality is close to top notch and embarrasses the other major players who, to an extent, love buggy garbage.

[@ashwingeorgemathew]

​@@Bozebobro is talking about quality when Pokemon Exists

[@afterhourscinema782]

"TRY NOT TO BE EVIL" *Difficulty:* Nintendo

[@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398]

Gives me second hand frustration that they push their luck THIS HARD XD.

[@M64bros]

While the toxic pc pirates harass and insult anyone for owning a switch while dragging in the developers and the employees, considering the fact they have absolutely nothing to do with the dmca legal team strikes that make those decisions

[@Localcatgirl_]

@@M64brosI haven’t seen anyone do that, I don’t think there’s that many people who do that

[@Localcatgirl_]

⁠@@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398the worst part is, they have so much of it! Discord wiped servers and 2 whole accounts because Nintendo told them to! (It was for emulator devs and servers)

[@mozzarellamaniac6300]

When I'm in a "Don't sue everything just because they're in your game" competition and my opponent is Nintendo

[@capitalofTX]

Copyright laws really need to be reformed. I’m sick of corporations using it to basically bully their consumers just because they show their appreciation. Typical Nintendo having an absolute fit over having even a single hair strand of Luigi’s mustache on another game.

[@MachFiveFalcon]

I think the laws and the legal system itself need to be reformed. A lot of the Gary's Mod Mario content that's user-created/(not asset rips) and doesn't imitate real Nintendo games feels like "fair use" under DMCA to me - clearly parodies (especially when use for videos like machinima). But Nintendo has enough money for litigation that they can intimidate almost anyone into takedowns whether they're warranted or not.

[@DarkeningDemise]

Corporations and lawyers make too much money to allow change. They'll bribe lawmakers to back down. Nothing new.

[@user-md7er6xe2z]

I agree Nintendo is being very petty.

[@jesse2535]

They use japan's copyright laws which has literally no concept of "Fair Use" as it exists in America. They don't care.

[@capitalofTX]

@@MachFiveFalcon Agreed 100%. Copyright and DMCA Laws have give corporations WAY too much power. In what world is it fair for a multi-billion dollar corporation to take down or sue some average Joe who made a fan game/mod because he likes Mario? Nintendo is only going to detract more people away from them if they keep up this behavior.

[@kryptofullmetal5553]

Nintendo is the type of company to sue a mirror for reflecting nintendo

[@miardDD]

Nintendo demolishing an Italian orphanage because one of the children was called Mario

[@BridgetGX]

Shh... Don't give them ideas.

[@pferreira1983]

I imagine them doing that.

[@GreenBunny.]

Nintendo is litterally the boondocks clip “did I just catch you having fun? SLAP”

[@ASlickNamedPimpback]

OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH sweet JESUS lord have MERCY my BABY!

[@ThePindar]

Indeed

[@podled942]

​@@ThePindar pfp checks out.

[@Coockiez-007]

they literally put tripping into super smash bros for this very reason

[@noahboat580]

Garrys Mod: WHYYYYY!? WHYYYYYYYYY!?

[@uvuvwevwevweonyetenyevweug6314]

Remember, a Mario model being on GMOD ain't costing Nintendo a single penny, this pretty much confirms that they really DO just hate the thought of people having fun.

[@ihatecabbage7270]

you and I don't owned the design, thus we cannot make Nintendo stop the mod creator for replicating the design.

[@chazeracer]

One word Sega

[@logandarnell8946]

@@ihatecabbage7270 try to speak coherently next time.

[@dopesickdog]

​@@logandarnell8946 Nintendo doesn't pay enough for literacy

[@Maximilian1990]

Just not getting paid royalties for that Mario model is "costing Nintendo" much more than a single penny. Not to mention other damages that come with some nerd missusing the Mario IP

[@birucheeto7299]

Nintendo is the weird old man who never leaves his home and calls the cops on you if you sit outside of your own house

[@PathForger_]

The weird old man analogy works better if the story ends with him lamenting being all alone - having pushed everybody away. Perhaps one day we'll look back and mark stunts like this as being the reason why Nintendo took a fall steep enough to make Riccitiello's Unity blush.

[@Maximilian1990]

But you're not sitting outside of your own house, you're literally breaking into his yard and stealing his shit

[@JoshLathamTutorials]

@@Maximilian1990 "stealing", nice try Nintendo

[@PathForger_]

That's a mighty nice bush you got there neighbor. Looks a kind of like a Yoshi... 'chainsaw roars to life'

[@josephs_parent_or_guardian]

Nintendo is like a grandmother that will cook some of the best food of your life and then while you are talking at the dinner table you ask to bring home some leftovers or look at the recipe and she gives you a cease and desist

[@yosh9192]

Seems like a very fun time to remind everyone that it’s very easy to mod your 3DS, Wii, and Wii U, and that homebrew emulators and USB Loaders are the best way to experience Nintendo’s library of classic games all the way up to the Wii (along with a select few DS games that aren’t too resource intensive)

[@ihatecabbage7270]

yo, you can. Just don't openly share it online for Nintendo to know it. It only sucks when Nintendo found out about it openly. Gary Bowser get work as Nintendo's slave for the rest of his life and Nintendo wouldn't even care as long as they receive the check.

[@purplesage993]

oh my classic gaming

[@TheEngieTF2]

Someone made a "Nintendo Office" map and uploaded it to the GMod workshop recently and it's basically a junkyard with a sign that literally says "NINTENDO OFFICE", the GMod community never fails to make me laugh even in a sh!tty situation like this

[@better-shotgun1686]

Someone is about to be taken to court.

[@standoidontwantalastname6500]

fuckin based

[@standoidontwantalastname6500]

@@better-shotgun1686 they'll only be proving everybody else correct

[@kinman3051]

​@@standoidontwantalastname6500I don't think they'd care

[@Apple_Beshy]

Spy!!!!

[@PlayerOne.StartGame]

Nintendo blatantly ripped off the Alien movies, Godzilla and King Kong. The irony of them being so hard on IP "theft" is annyoing.

[@ChocolatecatGP]

I swear I remember they sued king Kong for sounding like donkey Kong which is funny since king Kong came before donkey kong

[@Xoulrath_]

Aliens, lizards, and apes aren't actually something that can be copyrighted. Not yet, anyway.

[@wolfgangervin2582]

​@@ChocolatecatGP It's the reverse. Universal sued Nintendo and lost.

[@jxwong_3982]

They didn’t sue, they WERE SUED by Universal, and that may have had an impact on them in more ways than one. Kirby was named after their attorney in that case. Of course, now they’re in the position of the litigious one.

[@deaconschwarber5142]

​@@Xoulrath_that is true

[@ChristianGoin]

They'd send a cease and desist to kids who draw their favorite pokemon

[@CaptainBeebi]

1:05 the pain in my soul that Skibidi toilet is mentioned over Gmod Idiot Box or the Kitty0706 films. I get it, it just makes me feel ancient.

[@firdanharbima6997]

The joke is quite the same don't think dafuq weren't living in your era too

[@lukedavis436]

Dafuqs old content was class.... especially the GTASA stuff

[@gl1tchygreml1n]

Yeah I was expecting "Heavy Is Dead" to be one of the examples

[@lukedavis436]

@@gl1tchygreml1n "Honey where you been" was one of my favourites "shooting the frogs in Germany with Lazer from satellite!"

[@robertdowney85]

Only Nintendo would strike down free advertising and word of mouth for their franchises.

[@jxwong_3982]

It perfectly fits Nintendo’s controlling attitude to expect even free advertising to behave like an advertising agency, subservient to their will and only producing clean, finely polished content entirely in line with their dictates. Hence why they’ve gone out against actual free advertising like content creators, eSports initiatives and other fan works in the past.

[@SurfinTheKaliYuga]

Nintendo doesn’t need anyone to advertise their franchises lmao. They own the biggest gaming franchises in the world. Literally everyone knows Mario, Luigi, Zelda, etc. There are arguments against them to be made, but this one’s silly. 😂

[@user-md7er6xe2z]

@@SurfinTheKaliYuga Sure, but that dose not mean that what Nintendo is doing is good or rational.

[@SurfinTheKaliYuga]

@@user-md7er6xe2zthey aren’t under any obligation to allow mod creators to use their IPs without payment or consent. There’s plenty of stuff I don’t like about them, but like… if you’re still using Nintendo IPs and trying to fly under the radar, you’re stupid. Everyone knows how they function and how litigious they are.

[@user-md7er6xe2z]

@@SurfinTheKaliYuga Yes thats true but it still is pretty petty.

[@LivingFire_BurningFlame]

I just think its crazy G-Mod has been huge for at least the last 15 years but now Nintendo has a problem with it.

[@kintuppa]

They got a problem with it bc they're competing with the steam deck and other handheld PCs with the switch. I think they're trying to go after these sorts of things like Gary's Mod and Yuzu because of that, where they don't want a Mario or Zelda game on PC or some shit. This is one of the worst possible ways to deal with it

[@applehazeva2739]

@@kintuppa I wish Valve would tease back a little... Like Actually take sides with the community instead of the multi billion company

[@dychostarr]

​@kintuppa this makes alot of sense honestly. The memes of Nintendo throwing a fit they now have a competitor from the deck and this is their usual goto method. Apply lawsuits to flex at best and destroy at worse.

[@leedlebob2667]

​@@kintuppatbf, Yuzu did flew to close to the sun when they started selling versions of the emulator.

[@aouyiu]

@@leedlebob2667 what's your source?

[@quite1enough]

Copyright law is so broken it's beyond insanity. It's highly needs to be updated 😢

[@timbo303official9]

In this case I think yes and no. Yes because Nintendo took down perfectly good mods that don't aim to profit off of Nintendo. No because Nintendo had the legal right to do so. Nothing changes that fact. I do agree copyright laws need rework but your doing it for the wrong reason. The reason it needs fixing is because of the many copyright trolls who never get caught in the first place on KZbin especially.

[@Maximilian1990]

@@timbo303official9 >mods that don't aim to profit off of Nintendo Why do mod creators have donation links on their mod pages/channels?

[@galaxyrunaway]

@@Maximilian1990 This is a practice seen very regularly. You're supporting the creators' time and effort into creating mods, not aiming to make profit off of Nintendo property

[@godfrey4461]

​@@Maximilian1990Almost as if the creator is asking for people who appreciate their effort and want to donate money to donate. The models are free. Majority of people pass by rhe link and don't care.

[@Maximilian1990]

@@galaxyrunaway but the mod creator is creating mods using protected ips, by taking donations for that you're pretty much profiting off Nintendo property.

[@ryg4895]

It's like Nintendo wants people to hate them. how do they go from love hotels to this nonsense?

[@TriToomb]

To quote a twitter user: "THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA IS ON FIRE"

[@tedtheodore5715]

Imagine quoting a twitter user

[@kailomonkey]

They should spread an image of Mario burning down the Library of Alexandria. Getting that spread as a permanent image for Nintendo might make them think harder about their PR.

[@darklex5150]

You should have just put "a wise man: " instead of a twitte-... X user. Otherwise nobody will take you seriously.

[@TriToomb]

@@darklex5150 Then i would be lying wouldn't i?

[@darklex5150]

@@TriToomb if you consider that x user a wise man then you aren't ;)

[@TK-wd7de]

Nintendo would literally sue Nintendo for looking at them funny

[@zombiessquirrel]

They actually did sued themselves back in the past.

[@keshi5541]

@@zombiessquirrel no way

[@Mimikkyudayo]

@@zombiessquirrel What's the source for this? The only thing I was able to find was a satirical news site in a similar fashion to The Onion

[@Halfendymion]

Would play rock paper scissors in the mirror and lose

[@3331Alex]

Be careful, we are being watched...

[@JeyVGaming]

For those people who don't know, Japan doesn't have free use laws so majority of Japanese companies are notorious for sending copywrite strikes on the Internet for using their contents, even just a snippet of it. It's not an issue with US or other countries, Japan is just very outdated to things from the digital world.

[@jannikheidemann3805]

Fair use is much older than the world wide web. It was and is to this day an issue with analogue copyright too.

[@CPU.LINROT]

I mean nintendo still sends their fans fax... that's not me trying to spell facts all cool... that's the outdated email-like thing... fax machines... nintendo still uses those.

[@JeyVGaming]

@@CPU.LINROT That applies to any Japanese companies. Even in the place I work, some prefer to send documents via fax due to privacy and security purposes, though, it rarely happens nowadays. Japan likes to keep it old school sometimes, whether it's good, bad or stupid.

[@Bozebo]

@@JeyVGaming But fax is infinitly less secure? There's literally no encryption on the phone line as standard so if it's not relayed as fax over IP (huge doubt that an organisation would bother to do this if they are still using fax at all, the endpoint where the inbound fax entered IP on your network had to be unencrypted on the other side too for the standard to work...) then it's literally your private info in plaintext which any amateur can pull out of the line during transmission. There is also no sender verification, it's impossible, so a spoofed fax could make it in and pretend to be from anyone and it's impossible to disprove because no DKIM or SPF etc. like we have with email.

[@kobban63]

@@CPU.LINROTso German bureaucracy

[@caramelpepsi2582]

Remember. Its morally acceptable to pirate Nintendo content.

[@chosenone8456]

It is lol

[@BrooklynBalla]

Nintendo is gonna start suing all Italian plumbers named Mario at this rate.

[@OriginBullet]

Don't give them ideas

[@natebit8130]

Knowing that there is a master plumber named Mario in my hometown, I wouldn't be surprised.

[@EnaTenkiyoGamer]

💀

[@NVSirius]

So, 20 years and now Nintendo Copyright strikes now? Something feels really off

[@The9thMonth]

They caught up a bit late, it seems. I knew the Japanese developers were old-fashioned and short-sighted, but I didn't know they also were slow, lol.

[@swapnilrana2206]

Italians should sue Nintendo for using name 'Mario'.

[@LexyWolfe561]

It'sa me! A-Lawsuit!

[@meteor22]

Nintendo is the absolute definition and personification of the word "Petty".

[@better-shotgun1686]

Nintendo: the Disney of video games

[@ihatecabbage7270]

Petty yes, but it is their right to do so. They don't want others to be mislead thinking they give out Nintendo license freely like the old disaster of Zelda games.

[@charautreal]

​@@ihatecabbage7270yes, it's in their right, doesn't make it actually right also, if you're going out of you way to search Mario on the workshop and download the first model, I think it's clear it's not licensed, but should that matter when I just want to see Mario and Woody dancing the kazotsky kick?

[@ainz0617]

Reverse Flash likes that

[@LikaLaruku]

Petty enough to go after decoratve Nintendo consoles in House Flipoer, I'd bet.

[@Cmaster25]

2 decades completely getting removed left and right right now is crazy to see 😢

[@MelodyMecato6156]

Garry's mod creators should sue Nintendo for implementing Garry's mod-like mechanics in the new Zelda game (which is a glorified mod of the previous game if you ask me btw)

[@balsalmalberto8086]

Yea..... they definitely stole those mechanics from Garys mod and various games and then turn it into a grind fest.

[@Bozebo]

Mechanics are not IP. Unless you want all shooters to be shut down and only ID are allowed to make them ever.

[@lithoplanemasters6522]

@@Bozebo Tell that to warner bros, who either attempted or succeeded in copyrighting a mechanic.

[@yersipest]

@@BozeboMinecraft/Mojang has sued other voxel sandbox games 💀

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

But that can only happen after FromSoftware sues Nintendo for copying Sekiro because Link loses his arm in Tears of The Kingdom and has it replaced with enhanced prosthetics.

[@Xizilqou]

I feel like the sort of copyright situation we have now is really dumb, both because intellectual property is an inherently flawed concept (the idea of private property only makes sense when applied to actual physical property, not the image of something or a digital copy of it) and because intellectual property copyright laws like this always result in frivolous unnecessary garbage like this happening

[@guywholikesheelies3231]

Though it does make sense in the long run from a business perspective. If I wanted to make a series of movies I would have to compete with other people over something I created. Big corporations will go in and steal properties left, right and center. Indie would no longer exist. At least right now when they get caught stealing you can take em to court and you'll most likely get a settlement and they buy it off of you.

[@CursedKeyblade1]

I hope someone puts the goatsee mod on their games for Nintendo to view.

[@jerricaleonard2123]

GlueLibrary?

[@standoidontwantalastname6500]

this would be the funniest thing ever unironically

[@refundreplay]

It'd be incredible if it zoomed in on the goatse and It's filled with Nintendo IP 😂

[@zindayn]

Nintendo's just attacking garry's mod because random people on the internet make better pokemon games then the company themselves do.

[@Sr.BulletBill]

That's Gamefreak and The Pokemon Company's fault.

[@CathrineMacNiel]

@@Sr.BulletBill the Pokemon Company is owned by Nintendo (and Gamefreak).

[@strawdeath263]

@@CathrineMacNiel And Creatures. That said, Nintendo seems to be relatively hands-off with Pokémon for the most part. If they had (or at least used) as much influence over Pokémon games as with games they develop themselves, they wouldn't be such poor quality.

[@sigarett]

​@@strawdeath263 That's like saying the FDA is not part of the government. Still owned and acting on behalf of the government. Nintendo can be hands off all they want but really since they are still owned by nintendo, they pretty much are just nintendo.

[@NintenJoeGamer]

don't think nintendo actually makes the games, there's no way they'd be as poor of quality as they are if they did.

[@JellpySpark]

It feels like Nintendo are riding the high of the Yuzu case and striking while while the iron is hot. Further proof that it is your moral OBLIGATION to emulate their games

[@GUNUFofficial]

Don't care lol

[@cookiedoodle5582]

​@@GUNUFofficialCorporate shill

[@rhdbrian]

Nintendo has a serious case of Only Child Syndrome. "Mine mine mine!"

[@iBeatBoxz8]

Nintendos the type to sue Italy for having the name Mario in their country.

[@OldDogLearnNewTricks]

Just In!!- Cloud makes the shape of Mario's head. Nintendo sues the sky.

[@jannikheidemann3805]

The cloud doesn't exist, it's just someone else's computer.

[@misusedchair]

​@@jannikheidemann3805 ☁️

[@CrimsonCreationAGM]

Cloud has a smiley face like the clouds in classic mario games Nintendo sues cloud

[@Difluoroacetamide]

Nintendo sues the country of Italy for having people named Mario living inside

[@GAMEAVENGGERYLEY]

Nintendo would tear down an orphanage if there was a kid named Luigi who lived there.

[@User_5tjk42gj9]

Remember, it is morally right to pirate Nintendo.

[@M64bros]

While the PC pirates harass and insult anyone for owning a switch

[@chosenone8456]

In that case it is morally right to pirate Nintendo games if they keep doing shit like this

[@M64bros]

@@chosenone8456 You guys can do it but I'm not stealing their games though

[@chosenone8456]

@@M64bros I ment older retro games

[@M64bros]

@@chosenone8456 oh okay, My bad

[@rafaelmehret5952]

Nintendo's next step will be taking down fan art of their characters made 20 years ago on DeviantArt

[@breexthehedgehog6131]

This actually happened to an artist on Twitter while this whole gmod stuff was going on so that might literally be their plan 💀

[@ArjunTheRageGuy]

Nintendo do be cookin' their DMCA plans fr

[@Paraco_mobile_edetion]

Then they purge all Marios and Luigis in Italy

[@JonathanGaeta]

@@Paraco_mobile_edetionOrder 66 style

[@spectreamaris1455]

@@breexthehedgehog6131 ugh, great. I have old illustrations of pokemon on my deviantart page... Guess I'd better preemptively delete them smh

[@laughingman7467]

That is one VERY bored legal team, to go after a two decade old fan mod.

[@simon_nickle]

Other KZbinrs:*spends an entire day on a thumbnail Muta: 🍷 🗿

[@Noah-rb8qd]

The only reason I even started playing the legend of zelda was because of a Kakariko Villiage map for TTT. My friend told me it was from zelda, so I checked it out. Now I have pretty much played every game in the series. These mods help Nintendo more than they harm them. I can't believe how Nintendo is handling this.

[@Maximilian1990]

Did everyone clap at the end of the story?

[@kyledodson2992]

If I ever get into legal trouble, I’m hiring an Nintendo lawyer.

[@BridgetGX]

That would be like having Johnny Cochran in your corner

[@spidersmining20]

I want to say this will be the goofiest copyright strike involving Nintendo, but I doubt that record will last long.

[@lissewan1739]

Nintendo is always looking under every pebble to see what fan content to erase. If it was in their power, they would send someone to your house to wipe your drives of any fanart you have or made. I literally can't comprehend how they are gaining money for taking down mods of a game 20 years later.

[@Mr_Warcrimes_Himself]

​@@leedlebob2667watch the video again, friend- Nintendo of America said it themselves. It's official

[@spidersmining20]

@@leedlebob2667 He said in the video that they asked Nintendo and they said it was them

[@leedlebob2667]

@spidersmining20 yeah i saw. I paused the vid and saw people saying that so I assumed. Will delete comment.

[@suuslime3908]

That goes to the time they bought the rights to a porn parody so that they could keep it from ever releasing.

[@noahlarsen16]

Nintendo lawyers found Mini Ladds channel

[@grogash90]

Reminder that this is also the same company that in full pandemic went out of their way to shutdown a way to play Melee in multiplayer that didn't involve meeting in person, that meant that it was the safest way to keep enjoying the game without literally risking your life. They don't even profit from Melee anymore, and they literally didn't care about their fans lives and pressed the cease and desist button. If you're not paying for their new games, Nintendo unironically would rather have you not alive

[@crimsonshadow1140]

“Nintendo is in their legal right to take fan content down” yeah doesn’t mean it is right, like the saying goes, just because they can doesn’t mean they should, morally speaking

[@standoidontwantalastname6500]

Muta says that exact same thing every time this sort of situation arises, even in this one. He's just making the reality of the situation crystal clear. They _are_ in their _legal_ right, but it's not ethically right.

[@crimsonshadow1140]

@@standoidontwantalastname6500 there’s a big difference between legality and ethics, which some people don’t understand

[@looksirdroids9134]

@@crimsonshadow1140 Corporations don't understand this or, more likely, they just don't give a fuck. Rio Tinto blasted away a site very important to Australia's indigenous people and their response to the backlash was "We didn't do anything wrong because we broke no laws". It's so fucked that they can get away with having attitudes like that. It wouldn't work for any of us. Different rules for the rich.

[@crimsonshadow1140]

@@looksirdroids9134 yeah very true

[@crimsonshadow1140]

@@looksirdroids9134 very much thinking “oh but we didn’t break any laws so it’s alright”

[@VentusXtm]

I really want ANYONE to sue nintendo and win

[@mhv5295]

I doubt that Nintendo chasing fan stuff doesn't cost them. So keep at it people!

[@ThatguycalledJoe]

Nintendo has been dead to me ever since they announced NSO being required for online play. I got a used Switch and a used copy of Mario Odyssey, and I have significantly not touched either of them since finishing with the latter. If I ever do, it's gonna be with a paperclip hint hint.

[@DTailorUK]

I could imagine Nintendo ordering the SWAT team to get a battering ram on Garry's Mod's office, just to get him to understand to get him to remove content representing Nintendo's IP! I find it interesting how Garry's Mod makes a blog post addressing the matter. It's nuts!

[@chavito808]

Remember when Nintendo came after Sony when they were fan games made on Dreams? Pepperidge Farms remembers

[@el_gatoNegro]

I have not been in touch with the Dreams community for many years, can you give us a quick summary of the whole situation?

[@jxwong_3982]

Nintendo got Sony to take down Dreams content involving their IP and Sony complied.

[@el_gatoNegro]

@@jxwong_3982 Oh crap, Nintendo really sucks this much but thanks anyway.

[@nsgames24]

I remember that. That was still stupid, though.

[@Nave-usa]

I’m emulating Smash Bros Brawl while watching this.

[@PichusBlueberryPies]

This comment makes me feel like emulating Piglet’s Big Game for the GameCube, especially since that game and Smash Brawl are pretty good games.

[@singithi8556]

Common nintendrone L - playing inferior versions of melee

[@misusedchair]

Careful, Nintendo has eyes everywhere 👀

[@GareWorks]

@@Maximilian1990 But you can't buy it brand new from Nintendo, so they aren't getting your money and thus doing so is both a moot point and stupid (assuming you actually did that). Admitting to piracy is stupid, but Nintendo isn't going to hurt if people pirate their stuff, especially when it's old and no longer sold.

[@TRUEFISTICUFF]

​@@Maximilian1990bro we know you didnt, broke ahh

[@dasvinker4024]

If only Nintendo would put the same effort that they have for suing people towards their own games and consoles, damn they would be unstoppable lmao

[@faiyathefirebnuy170]

you know what's worse? This means that the infamous Team Fabulous map will be deleted too!

[@shelby5809]

don't you dare say that

[@faiyathefirebnuy170]

@@shelby5809 unfortunetantly it does happened. But the map have been reuploaded at least.

[@shelby5809]

@@faiyathefirebnuy170 I saw. make sure to give it a rating & stuff

[@asrialthe6th29]

Good news people backed it up and it’s on the workshop again.

[@ChuckiesCheeze]

Jesus Christ! not again Nintendo needs to get the controller out of their asses!!!!!

[@jannikheidemann3805]

Oh that's why thier controlers are not shaped like the one's you hold with two hands that other companies make, BUT rather stick like.

[@freakoffer]

they're getting way too much pleasure from the real feel 2.0 or whatever the fuck its called for the rumble feature

[@stpedro-ht9ng]

Thanks for solidifying my decision to never give Nintendo another dime ever again.

[@stpedro-ht9ng]

@@leedlebob2667 didn’t you see it was confirmed by Nintendo?

[@leedlebob2667]

@stpedro-ht9ng No I did not, paused like 2 mins before posting and saw people posting that it was so I assumed. Will delete that comment.

[@666slateran666]

Can't wait to play thousand year door!

[@TheRealSuperKirby]

People always say they're gonna boycott nintendo, and then they always buy the next mario game.

[@stpedro-ht9ng]

@@TheRealSuperKirby nah i just pirate it

[@thingsiplay]

Muta: I'm 30, I become an old man. Me (almost 42): Your first time?

[@Thorcarmine]

Right there with you 34 and it's hard to believe that the 2000's were 20 years ago

[@shelby5809]

@@Thorcarmine 24 years ago but ya

[@darkmatter21_xx]

28, Stop Struggling

[@C31ticWarri0r]

Oh people will 100% reupload them elsewhere, fuck Nintendo as a whole dude. Can people just enjoy ONE game that doesn't have Nintendo breathing down their neck while going on an ego trip?

[@ambralemon]

as a 2000s kid who grew up playing Little Big Planet instead, which was basically all user generated content, so much of what i grew up to learn about regarding gaming was through levels dedicated to other IPs, kind of like Garry's Mod did. Of course in LBP you couldn't straight up rip models out of other games to use them there, but representation of your IP in user generated content driven game is so, so, so underrated by big companies

[@CPU.LINROT]

at least you grew up with sony and not shitendo.

[@Swelteringheat]

Top tier franchise, Especially 1&2.

[@suppressedp90]

"Is Nintendo Destroying Garry's Mod?" "Yes, Nintendo Is Copyright Striking Garry's Mod" i hope this was intentional 😅

[@venexator]

some guy: uses Mario model for gmod Nintendo: "you just violated da D-M-C-A"

[@teaganjones4125]

I read this like the Y-M-C-A lol

[@venexator]

@@teaganjones4125 your supposed to lmao

[@hobgobigan6602]

Piracy isn't a Party... IT"S A RAVE!!!!!!!! Set the sails boys, girls and the wonderful inbetween, we're sailing the high seas!!!!

[@CPU.LINROT]

LET'SA FUGGIN GOOOOO!!!!

[@overdrivedrinker8284]

A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME

[@lukedavis436]

YESSSSSSSSSS

[@BridgetGX]

Already with you, matey! Arrrr!

[@mhv5295]

Really considering doing that. Or at the very least everything will be second hand.

[@stayfin]

Wish we had some law to protect user generated content.

[@masteyeah4512]

That's highly unlikely because the lawmakers are a bunch of ignorant apathetic boomers

[@object417]

There is. But in GM there are models ripped off directly from Nintendo games, so you cannot claim it's yours and user-generated content.

[@mryellow6918]

​@@object417except your not making money from it.

[@object417]

@@mryellow6918 yes, usually. It depends solely on the copyright holder. Some may tolerate fan art even if it's commercial while others (like Nintendo) may not tolerate it at all.

[@stayfin]

@@object417 true, I doubt everything in workshop was ripped directly from their games. They also have a history of shutting down fan projects

[@toufusoup]

This reads like a bad wattpad entry by a Nintendrone who needs to get their rocks off by thinking of copyright striking. I guess the Apple emulation scenario sent one of their legals into a frenzy.

[@javol52]

Nintendo destroys a house after they find a coloring sheet of Mario 💀

[@wait_wha]

Yesterday i was thinking that the only thing nintendo dosent atack is mods. I may be cursed

[@griffin7314]

Nintendo will do anything, but make a console that isn't shite

[@DR.DisInfect]

Kits seem to love the switch it sold like crazy. Not for adults but they nailed it for their audience

[@noahwilliams8996]

Nintendo will literally copyright strike Garry's Mod rather than go to therapy.

[@shiny8454]

Eh, most of them were classics

[@Delimon007]

@@ildrippe The only 4 that they made that weren't absolute trash was the SNES, N64, The Wii, and the DS series. Everything else was pretty bad and trash. So bad that even third parties didn't want to put up with that underpowered hardware.

[@sneekeruk]

The did make that console... 1990 super nintendo/famicom. Not much since in my eyes though.

[@VioFax]

Maybe a lot of grown ass men, should stop giving Nintendo their money...

[@balsalmalberto8086]

I haven't bought a single nintendon't anything since the Wii. Pirated everything that came recently and I don't an feel bad at all.

[@Maximilian1990]

Maybe a lot of grown ass men should stop crying about Nintendo protecting their IP...

[@nuclearcrystal100]

​@@Maximilian1990 how does boot taste, ive been meaning to try

[@Maximilian1990]

​@@nuclearcrystal100ask your mom

[@factualhat3018]

​@@Maximilian1990 'protecting their ip' yeah because fucking over random free fan projects and 20 years worth of free garry's mod content is simply protecting their ip and not a copyright scorched earth policy

[@mrsoandsoso2537]

Nintendo would totally send you a copyright notice for a picture of Mario you drew in kindergarten

[@BridgetGX]

They deadass would 100%

[@bucketofchicken8325]

Times are sad when the first thing brought up after sfm is mentioned is Skibidi toilet :(

[@BridgetGX]

Skibidi is funny though

[@bucketofchicken8325]

@@BridgetGX nuh uh

[@Bunru]

Nintendo might as well be a derogatory term at this point with all the anti-gamer things they did

[@hattoripool1533]

Looks like Smg4 is gonna have some unfortunate Nintendo Ninjas breath down on his neck because of this

[@jerricaleonard2123]

They started doing that years ago just because he mocked them in the lawsuit arc.

[@willfultrain6779]

Man, that's a name I haven't heard of in a long time.

[@sethisevilone02]

Lawyer Kong is back

[@Sr.BulletBill]

They should end SMG4 for once and for all. There's no reason for Glitch to continue making SMG4 (Other than money and legacy, of course). Unless they plan to keep making SMG4 videos for 20 years or more.

[@singithi8556]

@@Sr.BulletBill Glitch's quality control is already rather lacking, they really should dedicate more to writing overarching narratives instead of whatever murder drones is doing.

[@BenLipseyNE]

Hi Muta. Hope this helps. You may look at mounting your mic to the wall or desk adjacent. I watch your show on a normal TV with a small soundbar. When you tap the desk or move it, that makes for some not so good sounds. LOL I know this depends on what viewers are listening through. Figured I probably wasn't the only one anyways, I really do appreciate your show and the work you do. Thanks again. Ben

[@montyturner6511]

Nintendo has lost their marbles in this situation. Really doesn't make them look good here. Edit:Nintendo is the absolute worst company when it comes to this kind of situation.

[@Wiimeiser]

They're worse than Games Workshop, or the company that owns the rights to Tintin. Let that sink in.

[@Robotmudkip99]

@@Wiimeisernah Nintendo and games workshop are equally bad in my opinion.

[@D3K018]

Nintendo is making sony look like saints... They're not losing anything for having characters appear in mods, on the contrary, that is attracting players in the millions... And it's not like Nintendo is at risk of going bankrupt anytime soon... This is the definition of anti-fan and anti-consumer.

[@M64bros]

It could be really confusing

[@LG555]

Mario with an AK47 is just an image Nintendo doesn't like.

[@misbegotten3508]

@@LG555 So what? I can draw that right now and Nintendo can't do anything about it. I'm not sure why the mods can't be protected when they are essentially works that make no money or profit. It's just there to be there.

[@LG555]

@@misbegotten3508 because most of these are probably models directly ripped from the games, which definitly are copyrighted. And with the models looking like the ones from Nintendo, someone could think these are actual pictures from Nintendo games. (Don't underestimate the stupidity of people) And Nintendo won't risk that.

[@jannikheidemann3805]

@@misbegotten3508 And the majority of them are over the statue of limitations age limit, which is exactly what is supposed to protect from a razing of online culture like that. I'm not even a fan of any Nintendo games or a Gmod player as of yet, but I don't think it's good to watch as others culture is destroyed and not show any solidarity. One day it might be what I love what's at risk.

[@wanderinguser7665]

Fuck Nintendo, fuck copyrights & fuck the patent system! Do whatever YOU want with the things that YOU own! And don't let them tell you "oh you agreed to license it from us, you don't actually own it" FUCK THAT SHIT! The only way to fix this is to not respect laws & concepts that are bullshit to begin with!

[@LinkDragon512]

Amen!

[@TheDarkAngel969]

Newsflash, it was copyright troll posing as Nintendo, not Nintendo themselves.

[@AdrieJ06]

​@@TheDarkAngel969fuck copyright laws

[@FenixFeniks]

@@TheDarkAngel969 That literally isnt what nintendo told the devs of gary's mod.

[@TheDarkAngel969]

@@FenixFeniks Look up copyright troll Aaron Peters. Think, why would Nintendo wait two damn decades to decide to do something now. Or better yet, why did Nintendo email the Gmod creator instead of Valve about the infringing content?

[@a.........1._.2..__..._.....__]

Yup, I grew up on nintendo but I don't ever intend to buy another product from them. Cause damn, this is beyond protecting an IP

[@generalcrab0009]

Actually, it may not be Nintendo behind this, but someone called Aaron Peters. So apparently, the email sent to Garry about getting the Nintendo IPs taken off of GMOD was incorrect and not an actual Nintendo email. This “Aaron” also apparently has a history of this sort of thing as well. Why would Nintendo only do this now? They’ve presumably heard of GMOD long before this happened so why wouldn’t they have done this earlier? Also, someone got into contact with a Nintendo representative who confirmed they weren’t doing this. So, no. Until there is actual, concrete evidence, Nintendo is not copyright striking Garry’s Mod.

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

But they're also doing nothing to prevent these claims from being spread out or going after the person who's doing that. They're just excusing themselves off accountability whilst benefiting from the actions of a rogue individual.

[@NotaSimulacrum]

Hope this comment gets more attention if this is actually the case

[@K3ntucky123]

Fucking people blaming nintendo really dont get it these days huh....

[@saltidog86]

Nintendo sent me a cease and desist for collecting their old games off EBay.

[@dead-claudia]

what.

[@jannikheidemann3805]

I think you can ignore that. You are doing nothing wrong.

[@saltidog86]

@@jannikheidemann3805 I tried to but then they sent over some dude who shoved a gag ball into my mouth while we were standing at my front door.

[@ihatecabbage7270]

@@saltidog86 right..... i know is a silly joke but go on.

[@Maximilian1990]

​@@saltidog86something tells me you enjoyed that alot

[@dano1307]

Nintendo can suggadik at this point. With their underpowered hardware and constantly suing everyone for saying Mario's name the wrong way.

[@EnaTenkiyoGamer]

And that's why I have my ps portal

[@carolthepyro899]

​@EnaTenkiyoGaming that's not much better tbh.

[@darth_hylian]

What's the third word?

[@dano1307]

@@darth_hylian suck a ___ did not want to get in trouble by youtube. I have before for a comment like that lol

[@darth_hylian]

@@dano1307 so you can't say straw on KZbin? Hmm maybe cuz straws are harmful to the environment and bad for the ocean

[@billymanilli]

that thumbnail face bro!!! "Let's get right into news..."

[@abbba2]

they couldn't sue apple so they decided to attack an indie game dev.

[@SuperSisby]

This video's title feels like a response to penguinz0's video's title on the subject: Is Nintendo Destroying Garry's Mod

[@ChaseMC215]

Because even Muta fell for the phony lie of a copyright troll

[@crispypancakestw5869]

2 decades of gmod just gone over Nintendo being petty🤦‍♂

[@azadanes]

Nintendo would DMCA their own commercial

[@johnatkinson1111]

I think a slight loophole behind the 3 year statute of limitations is how are updates handled? Is it 3 years from version 1.0 release or does each update reset the clock? Then things like updates to maintain compatibility with the latest versions of Garry’s mod just resets the clock. When the DMCA was being created you didn’t have constantly updated works, if a work was updated it was the “directors cut” or “game of the year edition” and was generally classified as a separate work. This was likely a mutual agreement between both sides legal teams to save dealing with all the paperwork associated with thousands of dmca requests and the statute of limitations wasn’t considered.

[@Gary_M]

These mods don't hurt Nintendo at all, but hopefully the bad publicity they have been generating lately will.

[@epicjonny155]

i feel like these mods were monetized, i mean what makes you think why Nintendo went after fan games?

[@dezdoss5388]

​@epicjonny155 when you upload mods to the steam worlshop you dont get paid for them, and when you sub to a mod you dont pay anything. These are not mods you find on patreon or behind a paywall, theyre mods integrated into a steam workshop. Some of these mods have been up for over a decade, nintendo is taking rhem down because they are ultra petty.

[@epicjonny155]

@@dezdoss5388 wouldn't they have something like a link like to support the uploader?

[@dezdoss5388]

@epicjonny155 steam workshops have ratings and awards but there is no profit from awards. Nexus has endorsements but this isnt about external mods, its workshop mods they are striking.

[@kokorochacarero8003]

It won't Nintendo fans exist inside their own nintendo bubbles, isolated from this sort of news, and even if they found out they're dense as lead They are like the apple fanboys of videogames

[@AngelCopout]

GG man. Surprised Garry's Mod is still alive. Used to mess around with weeb waifu models in the sandbox map. Geez that was an eternity ago... Muta leave some space on the oldhead boat.

[@DakotaofRaptors]

"Mess around", you say?

[@multigrandmarquis]

Nintendo probably turned their eye on Steam after the Dolphin Emulator tried to get a page there

[@Void-cv2hb]

At this point Nintendo would sue someone for making fan art... Oh wait they did.

[@Dodgemod]

i can't believe sml got sued faster than garry's mod. i mean the difference is wild, but the fact it took that long

[@theAlchemyst11]

Sml? That like a super mario fan game?

[@Daralexen]

@@theAlchemyst11 It was a KZbin channel that uploaded edgy videos using Mario plushies. I guess that Nintendo took action quicker was due to SML already being controversial for the Jeffy character.

[@Swelteringheat]

@@Daralexen They're still around I think? Most of the Nintendo puppets were replaced with custom ones more humanoid, and largely original, names were changed to similar names as well.

[@GUNUFofficial]

Yeah there's a big difference between "easily accessible youtuber who uses your plushies to make your recognizable child friendly characters yell the n-word" and "funny hl2 mod has your characters"

[@Daralexen]

@@Swelteringheat They are still around after rebranding as simply "SML" and removing all of the licensed characters. They are still controversial though due to Jeffy and various affairs between the cast members.

[@kramkrum3672]

Nintendo: *confused old man noises*

[@joshuakausmann5504]

It is morally justified to emulate a Nintendo game.

[@eldoblixtlo1058]

I had a nightmare last night about me desperately searching all around KZbin for my favorite CDi YTPs to show my classmates after school but Nintendo took absolute everything down as if Fair Use no longer existed!

[@anonisnoone6125]

This is just straight up bs at this point. There has to be laws on place that punish companies for this bs. Y tf does Nintendo exist if not to make fun for people? Etf do they think they r?

[@Kleyguerth]

Don't be silly. Nintendo exists for the same reason as *every* other company, no exceptions: to earn money. Making fun for people is just the means they use to earn their money, but it's not their reason to exist.

[@kokorochacarero8003]

And guess who's gonna pay the legislators to make those laws in the way that benefit them the most? Nintendo

[@Maximilian1990]

How is protecting their own IP bs?

[@AnDr3w066]

Punish companies for owning IPs and enforcing the ownership of said IP. Nothing bad to punish 😂

[@GUNUFofficial]

​​@@Kleyguerththeir reason to exist is to circumvent former japanese gambling laws from the 1880s.

[@ScottBradley-gd7sl]

Lets be honest, At this point, nintendo ninjas are practically parsnoid schizophrenics

[@alexlents4689]

You know, say what you want about SEGA making mostly mid games, but at least they actually have a lot of respect for their fans. As a former Sonic fan, I can attest that one of the main reasons there’s such a massive modding and fan project community is because SEGA lets it get away with just about anything. And would you’ve guessed, even if they aren’t usually particularly good, their games still consistently sell well. When will Nintendo learn that they gain nothing from being so cutthroat when it comes to their IP’s? Microsoft, EA, and Activision Blizzard are all laughing at how slimy they’ve gotten at this point.

[@moldysshoe8639]

This means Gary's mod is mario canon.

[@jannikheidemann3805]

When Mario peeked out the other end of the pipe he realized that his head was inside a toilet bowl... [to be continued down below]

[@CPU.LINROT]

This almost means SMG4 is canon to mario.

[@allensword1855]

Waiting for Nintendo to inevitably dmca the spriters resource, every single song that has ever sampled their games/sounds/music, and then eventually any video, tv show, or movie that has any mention of Nintendo or its products.

[@epicjonny155]

nintendo could go down hill if they try that

[@breexthehedgehog6131]

Nintendo actually used the spriters resource for mario maker which would just be really ironic if they did sue the site 😭