{"id":77639,"date":"2024-06-20T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=77639"},"modified":"2024-06-20T09:00:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T09:00:46","slug":"nintendo-takedown-wipes-rhythm-heaven-remix-tool-250-forks-off-github","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=77639","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Takedown Wipes \u201cRhythm Heaven\u201d Remix Tool & 250+ Forks Off GitHub"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"heavenNintendo has been very active<\/a> on the anti-piracy front recently, targeting emulators, ROM sites, and other piracy-associated services and tools. <\/p>\n

Not all alleged pirates are equal, however. In fact, one could argue that some are among Nintendo\u2019s biggest fans. <\/p>\n

A takedown request from Nintendo, sent to GitHub a few hours ago, is a good illustration. The DMCA notice doesn\u2019t identify any pirated games or emulators, but targets a fan-created software tool that allows fans of the game Rhythm Heaven<\/a> to create their own remixes. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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These remixes appear to be quite popular among fans of the game, as evidenced by the many videos<\/a> floating around on YouTube and social media. Unfortunately, Nintendo is no fan of this activity, as the tool also includes copyrighted sprites and sound effects from the official game. <\/p>\n

Nintendo Targets Heaven Studio<\/h2>\n

The popular remix tool Heaven Studio uses these Nintendo-owned items in its software, without permission, which prompted Nintendo to ask GitHub<\/a> to remove the repository\u2019s sprite and SFX folders. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe copyrighted works are Nintendo\u2019s Rhythm Heaven video games, including the characters, images, music, and sounds covered by at least the following U.S. Copyright Registration Nos: PA0001791194 (Rhythm Heaven) and PA0001791783 supp. by PA0001397418 (Rhythm Heaven Fever),\u201d the notice reads.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The takedown notice doesn\u2019t target the entire repository, only the sprites and SFX files. In addition, Nintendo wants the same content removed from all forks, more than 250 in total. <\/p>\n

Entire Repo Removed<\/h2>\n

Interestingly, Nintendo got more than it bargained for. In response to the takedown request, GitHub removed the entire Heaven Studio repository and all forks, that\u2019s 291 in total. <\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t accidental, as the following statement from GitHub clarifies<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cBecause the parent repository was actively being forked when this DMCA takedown notice was received, and the submitter had identified all known forks at the time they submitted the takedown notice, GitHub processed the takedown notice against the entire network of 291 repositories, inclusive of the parent repository.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Game\u2019s Not Over Yet<\/h2>\n

The Heaven Studio developers were taken aback by this removal. The team is not entirely sure if the takedown notice is \u2018legitimate\u2019 but they don\u2019t seem intent on protesting it directly. For now, they\u2019re making nightly builds of their code available at Archive.org. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we are unsure if the takedown is legitimate, at this point we aren\u2019t taking any chances. While the project is currently being restructured, you can get the latest Nightly builds at [archive.org],\u201d they write<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are some suggestions that the takedown notice could be fake. This seems to be a common theme<\/a> in response to Nintendo takedowns, but we don\u2019t immediately see obvious signs of abuse. <\/p>\n

Interestingly, this isn\u2019t the first time that Heaven Studio has been targeted by the Japanese game company. The developers previously posted full releases of their tool on Itch.io, but these were pulled offline by a Nintendo DMCA notice<\/a> too. <\/p>\n

In the Heaven Studio Discord channel, which has more than 40,000 members, users are encouraged to share their concerns with GitHub. Regardless of whether that will do anything or not, the developers are not planning to give up anytime soon. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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There is talk about a \u201cPlan B\u201d. What this entails precisely isn\u2019t clear but if we take Nintendo\u2019s DMCA notice as a guideline, bringing back the software without the copyrighted sprites and sound effect files might work. <\/p>\n

In any case, it doesn\u2019t appear to be game over just yet. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Nintendo has been very active on the anti-piracy front recently, targeting emulators, ROM sites, and other piracy-associated services and tools. Not all alleged pirates are equal, however. In fact, one could argue that some are among Nintendo\u2019s biggest fans. A takedown request from Nintendo, sent to GitHub a few hours ago, is a good illustration. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-torrent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}