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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.
And that made sort of mis... wait, girls? BOOBIES!!!! This may be the first Slashdot article I ever follow the links on.
I wonder how many members they "lost" over the incident... :)
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Just how did anyone at Nintendo discover this? A little non-work-safe surfing?
Dude, I think I can see my house from here.
Their membership is gonna increase 1000% once Slashdot geeks get a look at these girls!
(I'm a member and love the site!)
http://suicidegirls.com/members/djblair/
-DJ
nintendo might have a case against their lawyers for royally wasting their time. like, there are bounds of reasonableness within trademark law and i'm pretty sure (though IANAL) that this is outside it.
OTOH if it was nintendo pushing for this, then their lawyers should be suing them for being enormous morons.
-Leigh
What I want to know is exactly how their argument is going to go.
Nintenlawyer: "Your honor, the defendants like our games enough to tell that fact to other people."
Da Judge: Um, ok. I hope you have a point somewhere around here.
Jaysyn
There is a war going on for your mind.
This is the first time I've heard of a company complaining about free advertising.
BTW. My favorite video games are also ummm.. "Melda" and er... "Zetroid".
At Nintendo:
[Boss walks into a worker's cubicle...]
-Hi anderson, I was just.. whhaa?!? Are you browsing porn in the workplace?
-Uhh no, you see, [looks at screen, sweating all over] these pervert weirdoes are abusing our company's copyright!
-You're right! Launch every lawyer! For great justice!
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Let's see if they'll send me a letter: Hey Nintendo! Zelda and Metorid love to get naked and oiled up and have sex with linux goth sluts all day long!! Black fishnets, fuck yeah!!!
Or the ckick in question will just say:
I used to like Nintendo, but since they singed what little hair I had (hehe) with their nonsense, I like Sony PlayStation now... Wanna see my singed area?
Nintendo -> Nintendon't!
"Piter, too, is dead."
Nintendo has invested so much time and money in learning and creating your personal preferences, that they own a stake in them. Perhaps not the controlling stake they'd prefer, but a minority stake that has a say in how your preferences are published. You agree to this limited license to your feelings by breaking the shrinkwrap on their games that you play.
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Uh, you just used the word N*ntendo on the front page... N*ntendo might sue you for using their company name on Slashdot, as you're associating their good image with our wonderful trolling community!
I like that, actually.
Bounce the email with:
Sorry, our spam filter has rejected your email for the reasons listed below:
* Categories: Games (Nintendo)
"Piter, too, is dead."
It is not Nintendo executives. It is a law firm that Nintendo hired to protect its property rights. Dollars to doughnuts Nintendo apologizes and fires the fuck out of somebody.
It is like when I worked for the MCI High Toll Department. Sometimes someone doesn't do all the research and blocks the Pentagon from making long distance calls.
For the love of god and all that's holy, don't do that again!!!
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." -- Albert Einstein
Yea we wouldn't want SuicideGirls and Nintendo getting mixed up by the search engines.
go out register like 400 domains and just put up an image of myself naked with just a caption that says "Hi my name is Robert and I like Zelda!"
oh wait my GF just volunteered to pose for the pic, so ummm forget the part about me naked.
Oh wait.
"why don't you just slip into something more comfortable...like a coma!"
Suicide Girls was developed to be a celbration of attitude of young women rather than specifically providing a visual stimulation for male sexual climax.
You do realize most of us lost our "virginity" to the women's underwear section of a Sears catalog.
John Katz? Is that you?
Random is the New Order.
and they usually stink.
BUT DO NOT GIVE THE URL TO ANYONE ELSE THAN THE LAWYERS!!!
Send "Stop IP Infringement <StopInfringement@PerkinsCoie.com>" an e-mail telling them about your web page, and carefully monitor the access log to see when it is accessed, and to see if you are sent a nastygram, or your ISP is.
Better yet, make sure that ONLY THE PERKINS-COIE people can see your page by checking their IP address (they are from 63.79.33.0 to 63.79.33.63), and NOT the ISP or anyone else by putting the following PHP code that makes sure that no one else can see the page:
This way, the lawyers will be the only one seeing the page, and whenever they will complain about it, they will look like a bunch of complete morons...
You forgot to mention the MAIN reason why the site was started, which is usually step 3, Profit!
"It's not like your minds are as open as the source you love..." - Me to the majority of Slashdot.
Dear Nintendo,
It has come to our attention that one of our users has used the name of your company on his page. Since your company is often associated with videogames for children, it damages our site's reputation by suggesting that we are a childish adult site and don't have enough hardcore material to satisfy every visitor's darkest fetish fantasies.
As for the 'ownership' of the name, the author said that it just "came from an old song".
Nintendo should just lighten up and forget this nonsense. I suspect that the name probably originated somewhere else because a Japanese Nerd video game giant corporation would not be likely to come up with a name like this. Personally, I suspect that William Burroughs thought it up, and a search of his novels from the 1950s and 1960s would find it as a casual reference.
The dispute is over the use of "Metroid" and "Zelda". OK, you don't have to RTFA, but at least RTF...Slashdot summary!
Of course, one look at her picture will unearth the real reason for her going after SuicideGirls. She's Unattractive, dowdy, downright ugly even! ie: She's jealous. Ugly girls always hate the pretty ones.
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What's this? Miyamoto checking out SuicideGirls user profiles - whats the old man up to?
I think he's referring to the pre-Hot Topic*/Marilyn Manson generation of goths. Like punk, an interesting subculture that reached it's creative peak in the late 80's.
*If your culture is interesting, someone will always be happy to sell it back to you at retail prices.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.
I've noticed a paid advertisement link to Suicide Girls site on the front page of Slashdot for a couple of weeks now. How "coincidental" that they now get a story posted on the main page of Slashdot. And a lame fucking story it is. SG gets a C&D via email for mentioning Nintendo trademarks. Whoopdee-Fucking-Doo. Man the battlestations. Calling all nerds with a credit card. Save SuicideGirls.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
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now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
I'm not sure that geeks and goths are all that opposite.
As a Goth that owns a software company, I have no idea as to what you could be talking about. I think there is no way a Goth could ever be a Geek, or vice versa. */sarcasm*
In other news, looks like I'm going to have to finally get a Suicide Girls subscription... With all this /. traffic, they're going to go bankrupt. C'mon everyone, let's help them out! :-D
Aside from sunlight, I mean.
Hawt, pale, sun-deprived punk-goth chicks of Portland, watch out! I'm coming to the Promised Land!
They need to post an official statement saying that they do not support Zelda or Metroid, and anyone who enjoys their website is encouraged to shun these series, also. :-)
Actually, I picture them trying to enter a cheat code...
...
Nintenlawyer: UP DOWN UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A B
*Judge rips off lawyer's head for trying crap like that.*
Baliff: "Fatality!"
Or Super Off-Road 4x4 for the SNES.
Don't ask. Seriously.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
This is analogous to our case. It's simple a fact that one of those two-bit goth whores likes certain Nintendo games. The two-bit goth whore saying it clearly is not an infringement.
You SERIOUSLY need to update your video drivers. I get 32-bit goth whores here.
That's what gives the Suicide Girl photos the ambience that they are mocking male sexuality as opposed to the standard porn approach of manipulating male sexuality for profit.
Well that's comforting.
I have heard from a friend of a neighour of a friend etc. that PS2 controllers have appeared on a top-shelf pr0n magazine, and also images of people playing Wolf3d and other games in a hardcore video...
You're like a brother to me.
Imagine that, the website is also a whore.
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