Month: April 2024

Garry’s Mod is taking down 20 years’ worth of “Nintendo Stuff”

Creator: “They don’t want you playing with that stuff… we have to respect that.”

"5ario" here won't be on the <em>Garry's Mod</em> Steam Workshop for long.

Enlarge / "5ario" here won't be on the Garry's Mod Steam Workshop for long. (credit: Steam / LmaoSPW)

The popular long-running Source-engine physics sandbox Garry's Mod has begun to take down Nintendo-related items from the game's Steam Workshop page, following an apparent takedown request from Nintendo.

In a Steam Community news post, mod creator Garry Newman writes that some items have already been taken down as part of an "ongoing process, as we have 20 years of uploads to go through." Indeed, combing through the over 1.8 million Garry's Mod Steam Workshop add-ons to find all of Nintendo's copyrighted content is sure to be a significant task. A simple search for Pokemon Thursday morning turns up nearly 3,000 seemingly copyright-infringing results on its own.

"If you want to help us by deleting your Nintendo-related uploads and never uploading them again, that would help us a lot," Newman jokes in the announcement post.

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In the face of bans, ByteDance tightens grip over US TikTok operations

Relationship between TikTok, ByteDance deepens as tensions over the app’s ownership escalate.

montage of users and tiktok logo

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TikTok’s Beijing-based owner ByteDance tightened its grip over its US operations over the past two years, according to company insiders, even as momentum to ban the short-video app grew in Washington.

The US government passed legislation this week aimed at forcing TikTok to divest from its parent or face a countrywide ban, but prising the viral video app from its $268 billion parent company would present a formidable challenge.

More than two dozen current and former employees told the Financial Times that TikTok has only become more deeply interwoven with ByteDance as tensions over the app’s ownership escalated.

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Point-to-Multipoint: Swisscom muss wegen Netztopologie Millionenstrafe zahlen

Der kleine Internetanbieter Init7 hat einen Sieg gegen Swisscom errungen. Durch den Streit sind seit Jahren 500.000 fertige FTTH-Zugänge blockiert. Doch Init7 will symmetrische 25 GBit/s. (Swisscom, Rechtsstreitigkeiten)

Der kleine Internetanbieter Init7 hat einen Sieg gegen Swisscom errungen. Durch den Streit sind seit Jahren 500.000 fertige FTTH-Zugänge blockiert. Doch Init7 will symmetrische 25 GBit/s. (Swisscom, Rechtsstreitigkeiten)

Point-to-Multipoint: Swisscom muss wegen Netztopologie Millionenstrafe zahlen

Der kleine Internetanbieter Init7 hat einen Sieg gegen Swisscom errungen. Durch den Streit sind seit Jahren 500.000 fertige FTTH-Zugänge blockiert. Doch Init7 will symmetrische 25 GBit/s. (Swisscom, Rechtsstreitigkeiten)

Der kleine Internetanbieter Init7 hat einen Sieg gegen Swisscom errungen. Durch den Streit sind seit Jahren 500.000 fertige FTTH-Zugänge blockiert. Doch Init7 will symmetrische 25 GBit/s. (Swisscom, Rechtsstreitigkeiten)