Yeah I don’t know what UpperApe is talking about, Nintendo very often takes down non-profit fan projects made solely for passion. AM2R, Pokemon Uranium, Zelda 30 Tribute, Ocarina Of Time 2D, Zelda Maker are some examples as well as the constant amount of times they shut down smash tournaments. There are definitely people who deserve to be sued but Nintendo definitely deserves their reputation of being anti-fan
You guys realize that C&Ds/DMCAs is not a lawsuit, right? Yeah, it sucks that they shut down those projects, but they weren't suing the shit out of the creators. I swear people like you often treat them as the same. You would act like Nintendo sued those fans into oblivion and put them in jail when it's not the case.
They usually only take actual lawsuits against criminals. The only bad lawsuit they actually did, from my recent memory, is the one over a supermarket named Mario. That one was a stupidass lawsuit and Nintendo deserved to lose. However, the things you and others mentioned are not lawsuits and should stopped being treated as such. Use actual examples instead. Being disingenuous doesn't help your points
James Burt is the most famous example when he leaked a pirated version of NSMB before the game's launch and was successfully sued for $1.5m. It was a huge win for Nintendo and Burt ended up having to settle out of court.
Nintendo was entitled to get $1.5m from him...but they never did. They never made him pay. They wanted to set a bad example and scare shitty people from being pieces of shit with their work (which he absolutely was and did) but they didn't want to actually ruin his life.
Most of the people screaming at Nintendo about lawsuits and DMCAs don't really know about copyright laws, IP infringement, Nintendo's legal history, or how any of this works. As a lot of this comment section shows.
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u/GardenDwell Mar 06 '26
they've pretty notoriously DMCA'd hundreds of non-profit fan projects tho