"New York Times Cracks Down on Nearly 2000 Unofficial Wordle Clones"

The New York Times issued a takedown notice to Reactle, a Wordle clone, resulting in the removal of around 1900 other versions of the game. Reactle, an open-source project, provided instructions on creating Wordle spin-offs, leading to numerous infringing Wordle knock-off games. The NYT's DMCA notice demands the deletion of all projects that have forked Reactle, citing copyright infringement and bad faith. This crackdown follows the NYT's acquisition of Wordle and previous actions against similar games, including shutting down Wordle Archive and debuting a new game called Connections.