Nintendo DMCAs 562 Fan Games

Ryan kinda looks like a slob next to Ashley looking all classy. I think he needs more Trunk Club and MVMT in his life.

Really it's kind of sad how much talent goes toward fan projects. Not that they aren't amazing, but we could have so many more amazing IPs if people used their creative talent to make their own things.

So if I'm understanding this right, based on the fact that "Escape from Lavender Town" wasn't taken down, Nintendo only ran a search on Gamejolt for "Pokemon." So that means just dont name your game after the source material. Don't have "Pokemon" or "Mario" or "Zelda" in the title

See, the worst part about this whole thing?

Nintendo HAS to do this. They literally have no choice. Even if they wanted to leave the games alone, they can't.

To understand, let me take you back in time a few years, to the dawn of Google's android brand...

Or rather, to the dawn of Google stealing the stealing the underlying code of android wholesale.

Android, up until late 2015 or early 2016, ran on the framework of Apache Harmony, a clean room implementation of the Java SDK, which is owned by Oracle.

Oracle, understandably, sued the fuck out of Google. Unfortunately the judge and jury got a bug up their collective asses, and decided that, basically, Oracle had no rights to it since they took so long to file the lawsuit in the first place. They had taken a few years after the creation of android before trying to stop the whole thing and protect their copyright, see. Eventually, some tie last year, a judge overturned the ruling, and Google had to finally stop using Oracle's shit in their product without paying, and thus they removed Oracle's code entirely.

Copyright lawyers obviously noticed this, hence why Nintendo HAS to do this sort of thing. If they don't, some jerkass pirate *cough*LIKEGOOGLE*cough* might come along and use their IP to make a huge profit and Nintendo would have no legal recourse to stop it.

To add a bit of fun information to this, Google is facing monopoly charges over Android in Europe, due to their giving away Android for free to any manufacturer who wants it, as well as forcing their whole suite of software (hey google, google play, etc.) to be on the device. So much for their company line of "You can make money without being evil," eh?

Yes make your own Idea's look at the guy who made Stardew valley.

I realize this may not be a popular opinion, but I understand why Nintendo did this. I don't like that they had to, but it had to happen. People are making fan content based on their intellectual property, and having someone else use that content- whether or not it is intended to make a profit- makes it difficult for them to keep their own copyright. Nintendo is completely in the right to do this, and even though it's not a popular thing to have happen- it has to for them to continue making the content themselves without having to worry about the IP being destroyed by some poorly made fangame that hinders the name of something they make. I'm sorry it's happened, but also not surprised.

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Ryan, you always make me laugh. "Is one of them they can't make a good console." "I can go to Home Depot ans bolt shit on shit all day." XD

But I'm with you Ashley I hope the NX is awesome too.

Makes sense Nintendo would go after all these people. Plus I feel like if you are going to make a game that is basically the same as another IP owned by a big company or anyone else you kind of are risking a DMCA take down. The risks kinda out weigh the rewards imo. But it would make sense for Nintendo to make a hub similar to what blizzard does so a bunch of indie devs can use a bunch of source material while still absolutely being controlled by Nintendo. There is a StarCraft MMO thanks to the fact blizzard gives devs a place to create games without the risk of getting sued.
On the NX I'm with Ryan, the NX sounds great on Paper but I'm sure a lot of people said the same about the Wii U. I'm going to be skeptical about the NX till about a year and half after launch cuz I'm sure the hype will disappate by then and I can finally get a clear sense of how 3rd party devs feel about the console.

Waiting patiently for Tokagon Nao