Following a massive DMCA takedown that was officially ordered by Nintendo, a total of 379 fan-made games have just been taken down from a certain games hosting service known as Game Jolt. This also includes a number of free-to-play titles.
DMCA takedown of 379 fan-made games
According to an article by GameRant, Game Jolt is a particular website that actually hosts free as well as commercial video games available for download. Some of these games are indie games and are sold on the website that is actually alongside the Epic Games Store and even Steam. Other times, some gamers try to make fan-made follow-up games to their own favorite titles such as games like "Undertale".
A number of the free, fan-made titles are actually also based on certain popular franchises like "Super Mario", "Pokemon", and of course, "The Legend of Zelda", or might include certain trademark characters coming from these franchises. Nintendo's very own legal department has now issued a massive DMCA takedown of a whopping 379 games from the website.
Nintendo says Game Jolt made profit
The DMCA takedown was said to be published publicly to GitHub by the official Game Jolt co-founder known as Yaprak DeCarmine. The statement that was then issued claimed that Game Jolt actually not only uses Nintendo's very own intellectual property even without the company's official permission, it is actually profiting by doing so.
Nintendo's statement said that the website called gamejolt.com actually generates revenue through certain advertising banners that are displayed on the site and would even include advertisements played while the actual user is just waiting for the whole game to load. The company then stated that they would appreciate the expeditious removal of all of the infringing content.
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Nintendo's legal team
All of the 379 games that were listed in Nintendo's own statement have actually been taken down from Game Jolt, according to an article by Nintendo Life. The developers of these particular fan-made titles have then been greeted by a certain surprising message when the game was taken from the site. The message states that they have received a certain DMCA takedown notice and were even required to remove it from the official site.
However, a certain developer known as jeb_yoshi, has actually reposted their own game "Five Nights at Yoshi's" that has its ads disabled and believed this to be the main source of the total DMCA takedown. He then stated that after looking into the matter, he believed that the fact there was actual profit that was being generated from in-game advertisements could be the main reason for the game's takedown and a number of other games.
The company already has a legal team that is specifically assigned to gear towards the copyright and anti-piracy that seeks out even those hobbyists or other indie developers in order to give all of the legally-sold Nintendo games a bigger chance at success, according to Nintendo's own legal page. Back in the day, Nintendo had actually targeted the "Super Smash Bros." modders for actually tampering with the software by using costume and skin mods.
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Written by Urian Buenconsejo
