Nintendo's Lawsuits Aided by Fans

Guppy06 writes "Last week there was a posting about Nintendo's efforts to crack down on people selling counterfeit Nintendo hardware and software, and there was at least one reply from a guy who reported someone to Nintendo. It turns out he's not alone; according to a posting at Nintendorks, NOA's Jodi Daugherty, their director of anti-piracy efforts, says it was helped by over 400 people reporting such kiosks to them."

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Re:Pirating Old NES Games?

[runderwo]

I think a far more reasonable approach is to allow nonprofit redistribution of copyrighted works which the copyright holder no longer makes available for sale.

Another approach would be to require an exponentially increasing fee of the copyright holder each year to maintain the copyright of a work, thus guaranteeing that the work will eventually enter the public domain once it no longer serves a rational benefit to the copyright holder.