DuskPort

DMCA & Takedown Policy

How to file a copyright takedown request with Dusk Port. We don't host ROMs and we cooperate with valid DMCA notices.

Published 2026-05-10

Last updated: 2026-05-10

Dusk Port respects copyright and processes valid takedown requests under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. §512, and equivalent regimes in other jurisdictions.

What we host

Just to be clear about what’s on this site:

  • Editorial text content about Dusk, Twilight Princess, and related projects (written by us)
  • Source code snippets quoted from open-source projects (zeldaret/tp under MIT-style terms; TwilitRealm/dusk under CC0-1.0)
  • Hyperlinks to GitHub releases and other public resources
  • Brand mentions of Nintendo trademarks used descriptively in editorial coverage

We do not host:

  • ROMs, ISOs, disc images, or any Nintendo game data
  • Dusk binary builds (we link to the official GitHub releases)
  • Pirated software of any kind
  • User-uploaded content (we have no UGC system)

If you’ve come here looking for a TP ROM to download, you won’t find one and we won’t direct you to one.

How to file a DMCA takedown notice

If you believe content on this site infringes a copyright you own or are authorized to enforce, send a written notice to:

Email: dmca@duskport.com (replace with actual on launch)

Your notice must include all of the following per 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3):

  1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or authorized agent
  2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or a representative list, if multiple works)
  3. Identification of the material that you claim is infringing, with enough detail for us to locate it (specifically: the URL on this site)
  4. Your contact information — name, address, telephone number, email
  5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, agent, or law
  6. A statement under penalty of perjury that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner’s behalf

Notices missing required elements may be processed more slowly or rejected.

What happens next

  1. Acknowledgement: we aim to acknowledge receipt within 3 business days
  2. Review: we evaluate the notice for completeness and obvious validity
  3. Action: if the notice appears valid, we typically remove or disable access to the material expeditiously (often within 1–2 business days of receipt)
  4. Counter-notice opportunity: if the takedown affected our own editorial content (or content where we have a defensible position), we may file a counter-notice
  5. Documentation: we maintain a log of takedown notices internally

Counter-notification

If your content was removed and you believe it was a mistake or misidentification, you can submit a counter-notice. Required elements (per 17 U.S.C. §512(g)(3)):

  1. Your physical or electronic signature
  2. Identification of the material removed and the URL where it appeared
  3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification
  4. Your name, address, telephone number
  5. Consent to the jurisdiction of federal district court for your address (or, if outside the U.S., for any jurisdiction where the service provider may be found)
  6. Consent to accept service of process from the original notice provider

Send to the same email as above.

Repeat infringer policy

We don’t have user accounts, so the standard “repeat infringer” framework (which applies to user-generated content platforms) doesn’t directly map. However, if our editorial content is repeatedly subject to valid takedowns from the same rights holder, we’ll review our editorial process.

If you believe content on this site is defamatory, violates your privacy rights, contains your personal information you’d like removed, or otherwise infringes non-copyright rights, please contact us directly. We’ll review in good faith.

Bad-faith and fraudulent claims

The DMCA imposes liability for materially false claims. We won’t knowingly process fraudulent takedown notices, and we may publicly document attempts to abuse the process to suppress legitimate editorial coverage.

A few categories of complaint we’re likely to push back on:

  • Trademark in editorial use: descriptive, accurate references to “Twilight Princess” or “Nintendo Switch 2” in journalism are nominative fair use
  • Coverage of public events: announcements, releases, and patch notes are public information; covering them is not infringement
  • Linking to public GitHub releases: hyperlinks to legally-published binaries on a third party’s official distribution channel aren’t themselves infringing

We’ll work in good faith with rights holders and ask the same in return.

A note on game source code

The Twilight Princess decompilation at zeldaret/tp is a clean-room reverse-engineered reimplementation. It does not contain Nintendo’s original source code. The Dusk project at TwilitRealm/dusk is licensed CC0-1.0.

When we quote code snippets from these projects in our editorial coverage (e.g., to verify a UI string or a settings path), the quotation is descriptive and the underlying license is permissive.

If a rights holder believes specific quoted code is infringing despite the underlying license, we’ll review under standard DMCA process.

Jurisdiction

This site’s hosting is currently on Cloudflare Pages. We follow U.S. DMCA process as the primary takedown framework, and respect equivalent regimes in other jurisdictions where applicable.

Contact

DMCA / Takedown notices: dmca@duskport.com (replace with actual) General contact: /contact