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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... :)
The friendliest digital photography forums on the net!
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
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.
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!!!
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!
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.
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'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.
Aside from sunlight, I mean.
Hawt, pale, sun-deprived punk-goth chicks of Portland, watch out! I'm coming to the Promised Land!
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.