Notes:

In a nutshell:

1. mm-nintendo.com is a fake domain that's not owned nor operated by Nintendo.
Corporations contract out services all the time. That doesn't make them any less real. mm-nintendo.com is registered by MarkMonitor, a known brand protection company. The operator claims to represent Nintendo of America and Garry's Mod can attest they do.

2. It's a DMCA troll spoofing mm-nintendo.com.
Email spoofing is easy to do but nowadays it's just as easy to detect.

3. It's too random to be real and there's obvious mistakes. It must be a troll.
Fair point, but there's two little letters nobody's talking about.
A. I.
Picture a crude bot with lax oversight and suddenly it all makes sense.

Look closer and mm-nintendo.com uses opsecsecurity.com for email. One of their services is Protecting Online Brand Identity and Reputation and this feature jumps out:

Visual Artificial Intelligence (AI) to spot more forms of infringement.
Infringements often manifest in online brand logos, trademarked text, and product imagery. Our platform uses Visual AI to focus on these visual aspects of branding and related media. By augmenting text-based detection, Visual AI is not restricted by channel, and also mitigates emerging threats. Visual AI organizes potential infringements by indicators found in the image for efficiency and enforcement at scale.

Sounds perfect for detecting evil screen shots of beloved Nintendo characters. Some of the claims are clearly invalid (like Kamisama no Marionette) but frankly it's not worth poking the bear. Downloads have been restored but to appease Skynet the box scans, disc scans, and title screens of the requested games will remain offline.

- Vimm (Posted on the May 25, 2024)