"Mario 64 Remake Receives a DMCA Complaint From Nintendo"

[kane_magus]

This is not Nintendo being overly aggressive about their IPs. Super Mario 64 is not abandonware (as though that makes it okay if it were). This is Nintendo being relatively sensible about a game that they are still actively selling today on their current generation console. This is not them shutting down Youtube videos of LPers playing their games, like the Slashdot article tries to equate it to, which I agree is kind of stupid evil on Nintendo's part. This here is not Nintendo being stupid evil, though. Nintendo has every right and expectation to have this shut down, and in this case I honestly don't blame them for doing so, and I also don't think "fair use" applies in this case, like some of the not-a-lawyers on Slashdot are trying to claim. And all the "fuck Nintendo"s down in the comments under this thing just shows that there are stupid people on both extremes of the whole "copyright, should we or shouldn't we" brouhaha.

At least the guy himself who made the thing has some sense: "I received a copyright infringement notice on both the webplayer as well as the standalone builds. Which is fair enough, really. In light of Nintendo recently making a deal to release some of their IPs on mobile platforms, it's probably not in their best interests to have a mobile-portable version of Mario 64 sitting around." Then again, if he'd had more sense, he wouldn't have made the thing in the first place, because he couldn't have not known that this is how Nintendo would react when they found out about it.

Comments

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

I agree with you that this is one of those rare cases where Nintendo isn't being retardedly overprotective of their IP. The guy should have known better than to attempt doing that just to show off the abilities of that engine (Unity iirc?)

On a mostly unrelated note, even if they are using those laws the way they were intended THIS time, it's because of their abuses of it that I'd never even consider doing a review of a Nintendo product even if it was the best thing since sliced bread. If I were playing the game a lot, I'd probably do little more than post the game name, final verdict, and an extremely brief summary about how I wasn't going to waste typing up why the game got whatever score to minimize the wasted effort on my part should I receive a DMCA over a text-written review.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, as far as their idiotic stance on reviews go (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/764432.html), at this point it's almost like Nintendo is actively and knowingly trying to shoot itself in the foot for no sane reason. Sure, they have the right to do that shit, I suppose, but they have to realize by now that this is explicitly harming them, the sales of their shit, and their reputation, more so than whatever marginal amount of revenue they might get from monetizing reviews from guys like Angry Joe or whoever. If they don't realize it and think that this is actually still a sensible thing for them to do, then they're less evil and more just plain fucking stupid.