There is Facepunch Studios announced It said it removed 20 years of Nintendo-related workshop elements for its Sandbox game on Steam. Garry’s Mod to meet the demands of the Japanese company. Earlier this year, an X user named Brewster T. Koopa placed a group of trolls filed bogus DMCA claims against the game to remove Nintendo add-ons and shut down add-on makers. The criminals allegedly used a fake email to send Nintendo’s lawyers DMCA takedown notices. Facepunch Studios said in a new announcement that it believes the requests legitimately come from Nintendo and that the company should respect its decision and begin removing items related to its IPs.
“This is an ongoing process as we have 20 years worth of downloads,” the developer wrote. “If you’d like to help us by deleting your Nintendo-related downloads and never downloading them again, that would help us a lot.”
[PSA] False flags at Garry’s Mod Workshop.
There is someone or a group of trolls around the Gmod workshop making false DMCA claims and banning addons, over 10 Gmod addon makers including myself have been attacked and dozens of our addons have disappeared. pic.twitter.com/ZwVVhQjQlu
— Brewster T. Koopa (@brewsterkoopa) February 11, 2024
In a follow-up tweet, Koopa said they had emailed the company to let them know the requests weren’t actually from Nintendo. They previously claimed that the cancellation notices couldn’t be from the Japanese gaming giant because Nintendo add-ons have been around since 2005 and the company would contact Valve. Garry’s Modhimself.
While the announcement is still pending, Facepunch founder Garry Newman revealed that his team has received people’s emails and DMs and that the developer is investigating. “We have to take these things seriously (especially from Nintendo), but we also can’t let people abuse DMCA takedowns,” Newman said. We’ve reached out to Nintendo to ask if the deletions Facepunch is receiving are indeed from the company, and we’ll update this post once they respond.
Yes, you have emails and dms, we have seen your ads, we are doing our own research. We have to take these seriously (especially from Nintendo), but we also can’t allow people to abuse DMCA takedowns.
— Garry (@garrynewman) April 25, 2024
