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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.
does someone post a SG login/pw?
I got a +5, Troll
They're goth, they can't be inspiring. They're right around the biggest waste of breath on the planet.
Slashdot sucks
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.
Actually, I am truly disappointed that SuicideGirls advertisements appear on Slashdot's front page. I find the site offensive as an objectification of women, and think it is socially detrimental as it fosters a focus on prurient interests.
I'm sure there are those who will argue about freedoms and consenting adults and such, but I always wonder where one should begin to draw the line on such things. Clearly many would object to advertisement to sites that promote bestiality or child pornography. I submit that if a site is not suitable for work, there should not be a damn hot link to it on Slashdot's front page.
If I were interested in porn, it is easy enough to find.
So call me a prude and mod me as flamebait, but I vainly hope that Slashdot will show a little bit of social responsibility.
you're a dimwit moron.
So call me a prude
How about I call you a clueless fuckwit instead?
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.
Hence religion bashing. Of course, how ideas make us feel is much less important next to their validity.
My point is, looking at porn could very well be damaging to society. We just tend to quietly kill the messenger whenever we hear this, because we know that the folks telling us that porn is wrong have just as many problems "upstairs" as the rest of us.
I think what we really hate is having limits imposed on us by people that are no more richeous than the rest of us.
This is taking the assumption that these rules are coming from other human beings--an assumption not shared by those seeking to ban or limit pornography.
My two cents? The effects of porn are quite damaging. However, I personally think that lusting and masturbation are equally damaging. And I also think there is no way you could get through life without doing them.
I really wish I could both appreciate the natural beauty of women and also keep my dirty mind off of them.
I think most porn-addicts, if they let themselves really listen to their more inner selves, would realize that porn is a real disease.
I mean, those women are often feeding drug addictions--being forced to have "sex" with other women to pay the bills. They're being hugely exploited because of some terrible choices they've made. No one out there is willing to cut them a break.
Even the rich ones--I still don't envy their life.
I can't even begin to look at porn without thinking about not only the effects it will have on me but what horrible circumnstances probably surround the "actresses."
As far as moral absolutism/relativism is concerned, I think morality speaks loud and clear in this case.
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