Nintendo Wins Lik Sang Piracy Case

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to an Adrenaline Vault article indicating Nintendo has won substantial damages against GameBoy 'backup' device vendor Lik Sang. According to the original Reuters story, "Nintendo Co Ltd said on Thursday it has won one of its 'most significant anti-piracy judgments ever' against a Hong Kong firm that sold devices capable of copying its games and putting them on the Internet for limitless downloading." Nintendo has been awarded an interim amount of HK$5 million (US$641,000) in damages, and they say Nintendo software publishers as a whole lost US$650 million in sales last year due to piracy.

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well its not related....but

[schwartzon]

Right in my back yard.....video games are being blamed for a 12 year old attempting to "take over" his school, only to kill himself in the bathroom when the police were informed. Pretty soon the games themselves will be banned, to hell with the backup equiptment. Yeah i know its off topic...but appearantly it wasnt relevant enough to warrant my submission being accecpted Read about it at http://www.stargazette.com/headlines/Thlocal1.html