Early this week, we reported that a fan-made PC port of Nintendo's iconic, and game-changing Super Mario 64 had been released online for players to download at their leisure. This is, of course, not something that Nintendo would've ever endorsed.
Because this port of Super Mario 64 is not really legal, Nintendo has decided to take action and has reportedly begun filing copyright complaints with Google and YouTube in order to make this unauthorised fan-made PC port of the game more difficult to find.
As first reported by TorrentFreak, one of the copyrights complaints obtained from LumenDatabase reads as follows:
"The copyrighted work is Nintendo's Super Mario 64 video game, including the audio-visual work, software, and fictional character depictions covered by U.S. Copyright Reg. No. PA[REDACTED]. The reported file contains an unauthorized derivative work based on Nintendo's copyrighted work."
TorrentFreak also reports that the most recent copyright complaints that Nintendo's law firm filed have yet to take down the reported content, though.
On the article we first reported the news, we also included a YouTube video, from the same person who created the Super Mario 64 PC port, but it has since been removed due to the copyright complaints filed by Nintendo.
Many have stigmatised Nintendo for taking down fan projects in the past. The most recent case, prior to the Super Mario 64 PC port, was AM2R(Another Metroid 2 Remake) in 2017 — which happened a few months before Nintendo officially announced their own remake of Metroid 2 in the form of Metroid: Samus Returns for the Nitnendo 3DS.
Nintendo is in its right to file copyright claims like these, so the company taking down fan-made, and unauthorised projects like the Super Mario 64 PC port is to be expected from the company; it is their intellectual property after all, and no one should really be profiting off it but Nintendo.