Garry’s Mod faces deluge of Nintendo-related DMCA takedown notices

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to comply with the Japanese company's demands. Earlier this year, an X user with the name Brewster T. Koopathat a group of trolls was filing false DMCA claims against the game to get Nintendo add-ons removed and to get add-on makers to shut down. The perpetrators allegedly used a fake email to impersonate Nintendo's lawyers to send DMCA takedown notices.

"This is an ongoing process, as we have 20 years of uploads to go through," the developer wrote. "If you want to help us by deleting your Nintendo related uploads and never uploading them again, that would help us a lot."There is someone, or a group of trolls going around the Gmod workshop filing false DMCA claims and shutting down addons, over 10 Gmod addon makers, myself included have been attacked, with over a dozen of our addons gone.

Yes, we have got your emails and dms, we have seen your theads, we're doing our own investigations. We need to take these things seriously , but we also can't let people misuse DMCA takedowns.

 

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