Nintendo DMCAs Palworld Mod That Makes Everything Pokémon
Nintendo DMCAs Palworld Mod That Makes Everything Pokémon
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Nintendo DMCAs Palworld Mod That Makes Everything Pokémon
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Nintendo is going to be watching this motherfucker till the end of time
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Just ask Gary Bowser…
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That poor guy got screwed. His life is forever changed because of a fucking Switch mod
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They were so busy thinking to NintenDO the mod. Instead they should have been thinking NintenDONT break copyright laws.
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Fuck Nintendo
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Nah, that one's legit. Nintendo does a lot of fucked up claims, but this is a 1 to 1 ripoff of their IP and models.
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Tbf this guy was sticking his mod behind a paywall. Scumbag
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Wow.. didn’t see that coming.. /s
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Unfortunately that sounds like a clear cut case. Iirc they have copyright to the creatures themselves, and that case is very straightforward to prove.
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This was expected, concidering it's using copyrighted characters
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That's not even it. It's because it was paywalled. The Minecraft Pokemon mod has stuck around.
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Should have done what that terrible zelda unity port did; have the project free to download with a patreon on the side.
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That was fast.
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Yeah turns out putting it behind a paywall pisses of Nintendo lmao.
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Yeah you can't make money off of copyrighted intellectual property without seeing some lawyers.
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One extra thing a lot of articles haven't pointed out is that the mod was locked behind a patreon paywall. Sticking mods behind paywalls has been a hot subject (to put it gently) in the community for a while now. Not to rush to the defense of the most profitable franchise in the world, but yeah that's absolutely gonna get you shut down.
Paywalled mods are debatable themselves. Throwing one of the most protected IPs that’s ever existed in the mix?
Lmao, yeah. Of course this would happen.
I’m surprised it hasn’t happened to Palworld directly.
My guess is Palworld has done their homework on how to be "legally distinct" enough. It's quite a different gameplay loop, after all and Nintendo can't copyright "cute little animals that do the manual labour for the humies" otherwise things like Digimon already wouldn't exist.