Nintendo panics: Zelda takedowns now also hit innocent people

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom leaked onto the web surprisingly early before release, and Nintendo has been trying to limit the damage ever since. The Japanese legal department sends out a barrage of DMCA takedowns, and it sometimes hits innocent people.

The Japanese video game manufacturer Nintendo is known for protecting its brands and characters with all possible harshness. The makers of fan games and remakes get to feel this again and again. Currently you are dealing with a leak that is a kind of super meltdown. Because with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (TOTK), probably the most important game of the year leaked onto the internet prematurely.

Nintendo is therefore doing everything in its power to prevent access to the leaked game, but also its illegal use. To do this, they have recently taken action against a whole range of emulators and other tools of this type, an important goal here was also GitHub, where you could find the code needed for emulators.

Apparently there are so many takedowns that there is always “collateral damage” and people who have not done anything illegal are warned. This includes writer, streamer and podcaster Alanah Pearce at Santa Monica Studio (the studio responsible for God of War Ragnarök).

Legal Twitch stream ban

Pearce shared via tweet with (via PC gamers) that her Twitch account was banned mid-stream for showing TOTK footage in a “Reaction” video. However, this preview came from a legal source and was also released by Nintendo or filmed at an event with the company’s consent.

Although Pearce’s Twitch channel was reactivated fairly quickly, the problem with hasty Nintendo lawyers should also affect other and lesser-known streamers. In any case, Nintendo is fighting windmills here, since you don’t have to search far to find unofficial TOTK recordings and images.

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