![]() ![]() “After receiving more than 1,500,000 downloads of our game, we have been notified of multiple takedown notices from lawyers representing Nintendo of America. While we have not personally been contacted, it’s clear what their wishes are, and we respect those wishes deeply. According to Uranium‘s creators, sites hosting downloads for the game began receiving DMCA takedown notices from Nintendo of America’s lawyers, so they preemptively removed links to download hosts from their site with the following statement: More outlets ( like us) picked up on it, and download count skyrocketed, but not all of the attention was good. The Pokémon fan game saw the release of its most complete version last week, and that garnered it more than a little attention. Unfortunately for particularly ambitious fans, copyright law isn’t quite as simple as the common knowledge of “It’s OK as long as I don’t charge any money,” and the Pokémon Uranium creators aren’t taking any chances-after the 1.5 million they already took, that is. They’ll look the other way on some light modding, but once hobbyists start getting into full fan game territory, they take things very seriously. Nintendo does not love fan-made products. ![]()
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