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Nintendo DMCA lawyers shut down everything Mario on Garry's Mod | Some Nintendo add-ons have been around of nearly 20 years without being bothered

On Wednesday, Garry's Mod developer Facepunch announced that it would pull all Nintendo-related content from Steam Workshop. The takedown is in response to Nintendo serving DMCA notices...

He pointed out that the takedowns couldn't have come from Nintendo because the add-ons being scrubbed date back to 2005 and that the lawyers would have gone after Valve, not individual creators. Yesterday's announcement of the removals prompted even more emails, direct messages, and forum threads from the community crying that it's just trolls, some providing "proof." The response was significant enough that Facepunch founder Garry Newman tweeted in the wee hours of Thursday morning that the studio was launching an investigation.

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