I wonder how everybody spewing "corporate cheerleading shill bootlicking etc. etc" would feel if they sold something they created and someone remade the same exact thing using all your copyrighted material and gave it away for free. Do you guys realize you can make all the same arguments for piracy and bootlegging? Its not about self interest, or being in love with a corporation, its about understanding the law. I dont see you guys posting about how awesome it would be to just download games for free instead of paying and shitting on people saying you should pay for games, calling them corporate cheerleaders?
The guy is amazing and did great work but distributing it en masse is highly illegal, and rightly so. The positive passion of the creator doesn't really matter. Like, this guy just really loves Suicide Squad, so he decided to reshoot the exact same movie himself in a higher resolution and with a better budget and give it away for free...that is still illegal lol. Being a superfan is cool and hes totally our bro but he knew damn well what he was getting into.
Again, GAF probably played a bigger part in Nintendo taking action than he did. I blame whoever made the thread advertising it, encouraging everyone to download it, and even going as far as implying Nintendo is okay with it.
Now we have a situation where people are salty and bitter because Nintendo had to do what they had to do in order to protect their IP. Literally in order to be able to protect their IP in the future, they cannot set a precedent of legally, formally, knowing about a copyright infringement and DECIDING to let it live.
Fangames and works are amazing, but those guys need to not get ahead of themselves. The same way musicians get carried away and then just start releasing remixes and stuff without permission and then it bites them in the ass years later, this got too big...its probably not even the creators fault...