DMCA & Takedown Policy

Our position

RetroPlayers.Club respects the rights of the people and studios who made these games. The club is built around members having a version of the original game, and the emulator software we run is open-source and freely licensed. If you hold rights in something published here and you want it taken down, we would rather act on your notice than argue with you about it.

Sending a notice

Send written notice to [the designated takedown address is being finalised — until it is published here, send notices through the report link on any game page]

To be actionable under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your notice must include all of the following:

• A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or someone authorised to act for them.
• Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed.
• Identification of the material you want removed, described precisely enough for us to find it — a direct URL on this site is ideal.
• Contact details for you: address, telephone number, and email address.
• A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act on the owner's behalf.

A notice missing these elements may not be legally effective, and misrepresenting that material is infringing can make the sender liable for damages under § 512(f). If you are unsure whether you hold the rights in question, take advice before sending.

What we do next

We act on complete, good-faith notices promptly: the material comes down or is disabled, and we tell the member who posted it what happened and why. We keep a record of each notice and each action taken.

Counter-notice

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send a counter-notice to the same address. It must identify the material and its former location, include your name, address, telephone number and email, state under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed by mistake, and consent to the jurisdiction of the appropriate federal court. Where the law requires it, we may restore the material after the statutory waiting period unless the original complainant files suit.

Repeat infringers

Accounts that repeatedly post infringing material are terminated. This is a condition of membership, not a discretionary favour.

Reporting something quickly

Every game page carries a report link. It reaches us directly and is the fastest route for anything urgent — including material that is not a copyright matter at all, such as abusive chat or a clip that should never have been showcased.