{"id":112691,"date":"2020-05-08T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/362676"},"modified":"2020-05-08T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T17:54:00","slug":"nintendo-files-lawsuit-barrage-to-take-down-super-mario-64-pc-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/08\/nintendo-files-lawsuit-barrage-to-take-down-super-mario-64-pc-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo files lawsuit barrage to take down Super Mario 64 PC port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of Nintendo&#8217;s <em>Super Mario 64<\/em> have spent the last week poring over a fan-made PC port of the seminal Nintendo 64 title. Their excitement however, may have been short-lived. <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/nintendo-lawyers-file-copyright-complaints-against-super-mario-64-pc-port-200508\/\">A report on Torrentfreak<\/a> now says that the company is filing lawsuits to have the supercharged PC version taken offline.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a slight twist in this story compared to the normal game dev takedown lawsuits we run. Wildwood Law Group LLC, a law firm usually enlisted to help Nintendo in its takedown efforts, doesn&#8217;t appear to be targeting the port&#8217;s makers. Rather, it&#8217;s telling Google and other online platforms to take down the port and make sure it can&#8217;t be found by the general public.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Torrentfreak notes that this strategy appears to have mixed results. One version of the port is still available on a Google Drive folder, though the company has been successful at having the port pulled from filesharing sites and on YouTube.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve asked Nintendo if it has any comment on these lawsuits, and will update this story when they get back to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of Nintendo&#8217;s Super Mario 64 have spent the last week poring over a fan-made PC port of the seminal Nintendo 64 title. Their excitement however, may have been short-lived. A report on Torrentfreak now says that the company is filing lawsuits to have the supercharged PC version taken offline.&nbsp; There&#8217;s a slight twist in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}