Recently it was pretty big news that Nintendo issued takedowns to Facepunch for Garry's Mod content, and now Garry Newman of Facepunch (developer of Garry's Mod and Rust) has written up a blog post with some comments on it.
I think it’s kind of ridiculous to take down assets that don’t hurt your bottom line and aren’t being sold for profit and it’s crazy that he doesn’t see it that way too.
I think it’s kind of ridiculous to take down assets that don’t hurt your bottom line and aren’t being sold for profit and it’s crazy that he doesn’t see it that way too.
You can lose rights to your IP if you don’t take steps to enforce it.
There is no universe where Nintendo are not going to clamp down on this kind of thing.
Rightly or wrongly. They’ve been doing it for years so I don’t get why anyone is surprised it’s happening now.