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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (7 children)

How can something that is a free mod get a DMCA claim? I'm not a professional at all but shouldn't there be a stipulation that says if it's free it doesn't count or something? I knew copyright laws were really bad but I always figured free passion projects were fine.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (5 children)

It uses assets owned and copyrighted by Nintendo. It doesn't matter if it's free, If they don't want their stuff being used, they have that choice.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I suppose that does make sense, still lame though. I do hope that everyone starts dog piling on Nintendo soon though. They are almost as bad as Disney with hogging all the cool generational content behind bullshit public domain laws

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I stopped buying Nintendo products awhile ago. I'm not a fan of how they treat people. The DMCA needs to be eradicated, it is just a way for companies to bully people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

The DMCA safe harbor provision is absolutely huge to the ability of sites to host user generated content.

Without it, sites would have to be far more restrictive because they'd potentially be liable for that content.

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