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Nintendo DMCAs Palworld Mod That Makes Everything Pokémon

kotaku.com Nintendo DMCAs Palworld Mod That Makes Everything Pokémon

The creators are not releasing the mod ‘for the time being’

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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.

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- 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.
  
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  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.
  
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Posts "Surprised Picachu face" image

Gets DMCA'ed by Nintendo lawyers
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- try a disappointed sparkit
  
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  I'm so behind on Pokemon that I genuinely can't tell if this is a Pokemon or a Pal.
  
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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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I don't get how this is news, it's the most predictable, obvious outcome.

Nintendo literally DMCA's hentai artists bro.

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- One of these days I want to see it go to court just so that the judge and jury has to discuss the legitimacy of sexualized cartoon animals, with the defence forced to keep a straight face as they try to explain why a person banging a goodra with giant jugs in a wedding dress isn't infringing copyright. Just a bunch of professional adults in a room forced to dance around the elephant in the room because it's irrelevant to the case.
  
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- Slow news day for games journalism and writers trying to justify their paychecks. Plus, I'd imagine it helps those who were running bets not on if Nintendo would crush it, but how long before they did.
  
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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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Wow.. didn’t see that coming.. /s

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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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  Be Weird, Download a Car, Generate Art, Fuck Copyrights
  
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  The mod or Palworld?
  
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  And a broken clock is right twice a day. Sure this one is legit, it's still Nintendo's legal department. Just because they're right this time doesn't change anything.
  
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- Tbf this guy was sticking his mod behind a paywall. Scumbag
  
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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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