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Nintendo Blocking Counterfeit Game Machines

Posted by Zonk on from the old-games-still-have-owners dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Nintendo won a court case Monday which "prohibits retailers from selling products that look like Nintendo's game controllers from its older Nintendo 64 game console, which can be plugged directly into televisions to play games."" These were apparently being sold nation-wide in mall kiosks. Shady.

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  1. For copyright issues by Student_Tech · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They didn't pull them just because they looked alike, they pulled them because they were running pirated copies of their games.

    A friend of mine saw one last year saw no copyright acknoledgements on the box.

    1. Re:For copyright issues by bhtooefr · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Nitpick - it's as emulated as your Pentium 4 or Athlon 64 is emulating an x86 (actually, less - the P4 and A64 translate their instructions to RISC, but they do it in hardware). This is in hardware - it's a single chip with a 6502 and all of the stuff in the NES.

  2. Nothing to see here move along. by kabocox · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The article states that Nintendo is slapping down a company that is pirating its older inventory. You know those controllers that you plug into the A/V that let you play a few simple games? Some company decided to put Mario and Donkey Kong in theirs without paying Nintendo any money. Of course, Nintendo is going to be upset.

  3. Re:What an ungrateful asshat. by xaqar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Dear assmonkey,
    I did not throw a fit to my wife first of all. You see, my wife and I have this thing where we talk about stuff, without being angry at each other. I told her I appreciated it, and explained to her that it was a bootleg product. She was surprised and a little upset that she had been taken. I know it's hard to understand how a successful normal relationship works, since you've probably never even talked to a woman. That's alright though. You'll get there someday.
    X

  4. I'll take it off your hands by DABANSHEE · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I feel no obligation in complying with laws that arn't in sync with my own moral code.

    As far as I'm concerned trademark law & copyright law should be treated & enforced no differently than Patent law. Meaning Nintendo's only recourse should be to use the civil court system to sue the makers, sellers & end-users of products that break their copyrights or use their trademarks. Copyright law should not be the business of the criminal court & if copyright holders want to prevent end-users from buying & using products that break their copyrights, it's only recourse should be to sue each end-user individually.

    So while the corporate world's lobbyists & the US govt have been using their influence to get govts arround the world put copyright provisions in their criminal law codes (a process that's been going on in one form or another since WWII), I'll make my protest by feeling no obligation to comply with copyright laws. As such if you have some hangup over your woman's game controller, I'm quite happy to take it (or maybe her) off your hands.