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Nintendo Threatens Suicidegirls Over IP Use
An anonymous reader writes "Suicidegirls (a not safe for work adult community) posted a nasty letter they received from Nintendo demanding they remove a member's page on their site because the member listed Metroid and Zelda as their favorite video games." Update: 10/28 02:49 GMT by Z : BoingBoing has an update to the story (probably where the reader saw it in the first place), saying the law firm that represents Nintendo Seattle is looking into it.
I feel like that dude in "The Thing" who sees that disembodied head grow legs and scamper off like a spider.
The never-ending insanity that is American IP law continues to devour all in its sight. I know this is just a threat, not a court decision--but defending such threats cost real money, lots of it. Until these fucking archcriminals are made to fear the sanction of paying ALL fees and costs (plus other damages) to those they threaten willy-nilly, this shit is never going to stop.
The guy that runs Suicide Girls is known to screw around with the girls that he has photographed. I believe his current girlfriend is one of the members and it's pretty widely known that if you pose for the site, you're going to have to deal with fending the guy off of you and avoid his sexual advances.
Also, as someone who knows a number of suicide girls personally, it should be noted that most of them are self-absorbed, ignorant twits. Their favorite past-times typically involve them, a web-cam and a mirror and lots of sycophantic losers telling them how hot they are.
Suicide girls is just a shitty website filled with shitty skanks, run by a shitty guy.
And duh - of course the girls aren't porn stars. They ARE regular chicks. That's why most of them are so ugly. However they look in the photos (which is barely passable and sometimes not even that), they're ten times less attractive in person. They're the typical goth or punk slut you'd find having coffee downtown with her stupid wannabe-band-boyfriend or tapping away at a bench on her laptop telling the world about whatever nane, bland pointless bullshit about her day in her blog.
Anyone who spends money on that site should be kicked in the fucking head and go out and see what real girls are like. Who knows, one might even talk to you if you get out of your basement and stop wanking off to fugly idiot chicks online.