[PSA] Nintendo-related mods are being DMCA'd by Nintendo themselves, unfortunately...

[UlτrαΤwο]

Since there are still some people who think it's a DMCA troll, I'll be linking Mutahar's video here where he debunks the claims. If you are somehow still convinced that it was not Nintendo filing DMCA claims, you need to get your brain checked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMuy385i5KE

TL;DR Nintendo is actually taking down mods, Garry and Valve confirmed it.

Exactly as the title says. Several Nintendo-related mods were being flagged with DMCA claims and were successful on some notable mods (Such as Apoc Hedgie's Mario ragdolls pack and Super Mario Odyssey pack).

Several other mods were also flagged with DMCA claims. Unfortunately, it was not what we originally assumed and it turns out that Nintendo is behind the DMCA strikes using a site known as MarkMonitor, which is used to tackle copyright infringement.

In short, that means that it is NOT a copyright troll as we believed at first.

That doesn't mean that Nintendo won. Some good people in the community managed to archive the mods that were taken down (Most of them anyway). The link to the archives will be added below. Kudos to the people who made them.

I also want to make a disclaimer that I am NOT in any way experienced in modding and will NOT reupload any mods removed from the Workshop out of respect.

One last thing: PLEASE DO NOT HARASS OR GO AFTER ANYONE! And please for the love of god do NOT attempt any act of vigilantism. Two wrongs do not make a right and I do not support nor endorse harassment, witch-hunting, or doxxing. The whole point of this post is to raise awareness.

We'll do what we can to archive mods in Google Drive, Mega, and other sites if possible.

Google drive #1[drive.google.com]

Google drive #2[drive.google.com]

Google drive #3[drive.google.com]

Google drive #4[drive.google.com]

Google drive #5[drive.google.com]

Google drive #6[drive.google.com]

Google drive #7[drive.google.com]

Google drive #8[drive.google.com]

Google Drive #9[drive.google.com]

Google Drive #10[drive.google.com]

Pastebin #1 (Provided by Sinful Mario)[pastebin.com]

Pastebin #2 (Provided by Apoc Hedgie and RTB)[pastebin.com]

Pastebin #3 (Provided by Yunpol)[pastebin.com]

Mega Drive #1 (Provided by RTB)[mega.nz]

Mega Drive #2 (Provided bylegoj15)[mega.nz]

Mega Drive #3 (Provided by Yunpol, GMOD version)[mega.nz]

Mega Drive #4 (Provided by Yunpol, SFM version)[mega.nz]

Mega Drive #5 (Provided by Skefil☆)[mega.nz]

Mega Drive #6 (Provided by l'écureuil)[mega.nz]

Mega Drive #7 (Provided by EnergyFlamer)[mega.nz]

Once you downloaded them, put them into the "addons" folder in the game's files:

Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\addons

If you wish to find mods updated after the 2020 update, locate this folder:

Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\4000

One last thing; you will need the Extended Spawnmenu addon to access them.

[UlτrαΤwο]

引用自 IRIS：

Mario bowser baddies ragdoll pack and its enhanced version also got claimed.....

引用自 Kermit the Frog：

My Mario & Luigi playermodels where also claimed by the same guy, pain.

引用自 DJ Kirby 88：

Crispy Toast just put up something about Peters. They sound like they've lost all faith in Valve. Honestly, at this rate, I think this tunnel's never going to get a light at the end of it. This is VALVE we're talking about. They do nothing till the community raises their voices about it, like in TF2, but that slowly died down, and I believe is now being ignored.

引用自 Pavillion：

I got bad news, the bowser's baddies pack just got banned, we lost another one. ♥♥♥♥ Aaron Peters!!

I already lost faith at this point. Peters will go after re-uploads now, 100% guaranteed.

It's clear that Valve doesn't give a ♥♥♥♥. They'll just blindly follow whatever schmuck files a DMCA without a second thought and won't bother checking if the claim is legitimate or not. The glories of capitalism where profit over people becomes number one priority.

I think the main reason Valve won't do anything about it is because of the whole emulator situation with Valve's Steam Deck. Why even bother trying to fight back?

This just only proves that bad people get away with everything, and the good people get punished for whatever they do; not the other way around like in those Hollywood movies.

[IRIS]

welp i guess its time to upload any nintendo ip addons to gamebanana....

[Crispy Toast]

You know, right after that happened, there is no point in planning to re-upload the add-ons that were taken down. I give up. That's it. Game over.

Valve is dead to me as well. They are just as bad as incompetent companies anyway. It was bad enough that they failed to deliver Half-Life 3 or The Heavy update for TF2, but I had lost faith in Valve.

So yeah. I give up. I'll just take the add-ons somewhere else.

[assassindragon97]

Welcome to reality, people. The future is completely ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up. I hate the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ future so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ much right now as much as I hate modern gaming companies that don't care much about their customers and instead side with fraudsters who claim to be company officials. Look at how pessimistic we are now, aren't we? So yeah, again, welcome to this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up reality.

[IRIS]

引用自 Crispy Toast：

You know, right after that happened, there is no point in planning to re-upload the add-ons that were taken down. I give up. That's it. Game over.

Valve is dead to me as well. They are just as bad as incompetent companies anyway. It was bad enough that they failed to deliver Half-Life 3 or The Heavy update for TF2, but I had lost faith in Valve.

So yeah. I give up. I'll just take the add-ons somewhere else.

Do you still have your addons that got claimed? Because if you do, you can as you said take them somewhere else.

Aaron peters is pretty sad to be honest. I feel like he is doing this because he hates nintendo, and wants to make nintendo fans suffer....

[SuperMario20]

I can confirm that Aaron Peters is the reason my Mario addon was taken down. If he is indeed faking it, that's super scummy. I received an email about a DMCA from Nintendo, and when I read it, it said

Aaron Peters Nintendo of America Inc.

4600 150th Ave NE

Redmond, WA 98052
If this is a fake associate of Nintendo, this would be a huge disaster for Valve

[Brewster T. Koopa]

引用自 SuperMario20：

I can confirm that Aaron Peters is the reason my Mario addon was taken down. If he is indeed faking it, that's super scummy. I received an email about a DMCA from Nintendo, and when I read it, it said

Aaron Peters Nintendo of America Inc.

4600 150th Ave NE

Redmond, WA 98052
If this is a fake address and fake associate of Nintendo, this would be a huge win

not just a fake location address, but a fake email


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GHivdtMWsAAe9BK?format=png&name=medium

[King Boo]

引用自 Brewster T. Koopa：

There's a major update, The emails everyone got from Aaron Peters are confirmed to be fake because the domain name came from a completely different name as opposed to Nintendo's

If you don't mind me asking, who exactly is Aaron Peters? I want to know all that's known about him.

[SuperMario20]

引用自 Brewster T. Koopa：

引用自 SuperMario20：

I can confirm that Aaron Peters is the reason my Mario addon was taken down. If he is indeed faking it, that's super scummy. I received an email about a DMCA from Nintendo, and when I read it, it said

Aaron Peters Nintendo of America Inc.

4600 150th Ave NE

Redmond, WA 98052
If this is a fake address and fake associate of Nintendo, this would be a huge win

not just a fake location address, but a fake email


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GHivdtMWsAAe9BK?format=png&name=medium

The email is listed as "[e-mail]". I think they sent me a legit email about a fake DMCA, not realizing it was a fake associate

[IRIS]

Aaron peters has been doing this scummy practice since 2020 by the way...

"UPDATE 11/13/2020: The past few weeks have brought DMCA claims on Twitter from the fraud pretending to be from Nintendo last year. Note that if you get such a claim with the name Aaron Peters, it's not from Nintendo. File a counter-notice, but note that Twitter is currently very slow to respond due to the US election nonsense they're dealing with right now, counter-notices seem to be their bottom priority."

From: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/1487164 down below

[assassindragon97]

At this point, I want to quit Steam and find a game extremely similar to Garry's Mod since I can no longer stand or trust Valve especially their response towards a situation like this.

In fact, I feel that the false DMCAs will eventually not be limited to targeting Nintendo addons. If other people like Peters continue to file false DMCAs on other addons containing series like Sonic, GTA or Genshin here, I would quit Steam for good and go find a better game service.

Does anyone know a game extremely similar to Garry's Mod outside of Steam or Valve here?

[Brewster T. Koopa]

引用自 SuperMario20：

引用自 Brewster T. Koopa：

not just a fake location address, but a fake email


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GHivdtMWsAAe9BK?format=png&name=medium

The email is listed as "[e-mail]". I think they sent me a legit email about a fake DMCA, not realizing it was a fake associate

That email is legitimate



"[e-mail]" Isn't

[IRIS]

引用自 assassindragon97：

At this point, I want to quit Steam and find a game extremely similar to Garry's Mod since I can no longer stand or trust Valve especially their response towards a situation like this.

In fact, I feel that the false DMCAs will eventually not be limited to targeting Nintendo addons. If other people like Peters continue to file false DMCAs on other addons containing series like Sonic, GTA or Genshin here, I would quit Steam for good and go find a better game service.

Does anyone know a game extremely similar to Garry's Mod outside of Steam or Valve here?

Minecraft... I guess...

Also you know those creators can just take their addons and upload them somewhere else right? Like gameabanana or something...

[King Boo]

引用自 Brewster T. Koopa：

引用自 Astro Star：

Here me out. First TF2 is dealing with bots, LFD2 is dealing with a server problem and now Gmod addons are being DMCA'D claimed for no reason. So this could be a coordinated attack, someone or some group is doing this. I'm just sayin

That would make sense if the bot problem was recent, TF2 has had bot issues for many many years.

The DMCAs are all by the one individual, who's been doing this ♥♥♥♥ since 2021, to me except for TF2, this ♥♥♥♥ sounds like one huge bad coincidence to me

Ok, I'm not a modder, I probably shouldn't even try to butt into something I don't understand. I'm just a guy who wants to have Mario do weird poses but I did find this twitter thread from October 2020
https://x.com/pkfirefawx/status/1314928698404077571?s=46&t=4BEuJvOyyUWzFWh0kHQ8lw
I don't know how much it would help or be any help at all. The big thing I took from it was that someone mentioned about a former employee named Aaron Peters. I don't if this was brought up or not but I thought it could have sort of use.

[Brewster T. Koopa]

引用自 King Boo：

引用自 Brewster T. Koopa：

That would make sense if the bot problem was recent, TF2 has had bot issues for many many years.

The DMCAs are all by the one individual, who's been doing this ♥♥♥♥ since 2021, to me except for TF2, this ♥♥♥♥ sounds like one huge bad coincidence to me

Ok, I'm not a modder, I probably shouldn't even try to butt into something I don't understand. I'm just a guy who wants to have Mario do weird poses but I did find this twitter thread from October 2020
https://x.com/pkfirefawx/status/1314928698404077571?s=46&t=4BEuJvOyyUWzFWh0kHQ8lw
I don't know how much it would help or be any help at all. The big thing I took from it was that someone mentioned about a former employee named Aaron Peters. I don't if this was brought up or not but I thought it could have sort of use.

This actually does help