The industry's most litigious company is at it again - Nintendo is throwing the book at data miners and video game modders in an effort to curb gaming leaks. The console maker has now issued a new social media guideline that may lead to DMCA takedown requests for content obtained from mods and data mining.
Nintendo recently published new content guidelines for the first time in five years. Previous guidelines had already cracked down on the online sharing of video game content such as soundtracks, but things just got harsher. The new guidelines are going after content shared on social media extracted using mods or via data mining.
A notable section of the guidelines reads, "[Content that] features unauthorized game consoles and/or software not licensed by Nintendo and/or features video, images, sound sources, etc., that cannot be used in regular gameplay, extracted through game software via data mining or other methods.
In the past, Nintendo has issued DMCA takedown requests against YouTube content creators who have been sharing its music on their channels. Some of these channels have been closed as a result of the copyright strikes. With the new guidelines, it looks like we will be seeing much more frequent DCMA takedown requests.
