@marandahir the law is uncertain, but you're describing a bad future.
When you purchase a game, it's yours. You can do with it as you please. See the Game Genie lawsuits of the 90's to see settled case law. You're free to modify any program you own.
What you're not free to do is redistribute copyrighted material or infringe on trademarks, which is why game projects get taken down. Nintendo has the law on its side here.
Now it's clear that you can't upload or steam movies, music, or tv shows. But games have for years been tolerated by the entire industry. Furthermore, there are fair use provisions that cover commentary, review/critique, and certain forms of derivative works. It's not clear what the law would say here if this went to court, but the industry condones it and modders have an incredibly reasonable case. They could even counter that their free speech rights are being suppressed with the take downs.
What will happen? Probably nothing. Modders don't have resources to fight this. YouTube is focused on profit and doesn't want to get involved.
But should we celebrate this? Absolutely not. Nintendo is being abusive here. And they're hurting some of their biggest fans.
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@marandahir the law is uncertain, but you're describing a bad future.
When you purchase a game, it's yours. You can do with it as you please. See the Game Genie lawsuits of the 90's to see settled case law. You're free to modify any program you own.
What you're not free to do is redistribute copyrighted material or infringe on trademarks, which is why game projects get taken down. Nintendo has the law on its side here.
Now it's clear that you can't upload or steam movies, music, or tv shows. But games have for years been tolerated by the entire industry. Furthermore, there are fair use provisions that cover commentary, review/critique, and certain forms of derivative works. It's not clear what the law would say here if this went to court, but the industry condones it and modders have an incredibly reasonable case. They could even counter that their free speech rights are being suppressed with the take downs.
What will happen? Probably nothing. Modders don't have resources to fight this. YouTube is focused on profit and doesn't want to get involved.
But should we celebrate this? Absolutely not. Nintendo is being abusive here. And they're hurting some of their biggest fans.