Nintendo Threatens Suicidegirls Over IP Use 845
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.
Well, clearly Nintendo is crazy (Score:5, Funny)
Oops (Score:5, Funny)
wait a minute... (Score:5, Funny)
This could be a great thing for SG (Score:5, Funny)
(I'm a member and love the site!)
http://suicidegirls.com/members/djblair/
-DJ
y'know, (Score:2, Funny)
OTOH if it was nintendo pushing for this, then their lawyers should be suing them for being enormous morons.
-Leigh
Re:wait a minute... (Score:5, Funny)
"But boss, I was looking for our company's name being mentioned on these sites!"
Re:This could be a great thing for SG (Score:2, Funny)
Re:To Insane Levels (Score:5, Funny)
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
Free Advertising (Score:1, Funny)
BTW. My favorite video games are also ummm.. "Melda" and er... "Zetroid".
Re:Oops (Score:5, Funny)
Re:wait a minute... (Score:5, Funny)
Every nintendo game that is not a 3rd party title is already a cross between pure fantasy and hardcore Sci-Fi. No Zelda is not real!
Nice excuse (Score:5, Funny)
[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!
Re:Well, clearly Nintendo is crazy (Score:5, Funny)
Please repost the letter. (Score:5, Funny)
WARNING NOTICE
You have attempted to access a site that has been deemed inappropriate for our business and blocked from ALL internal access. A record of this request has been logged and will be provided to Business Security upon request.
For further information on why this web site was blocked, please go to the SmartFilter website.
PLEASE REFRAIN FROM ANY FURTHER ATTEMPTS!
If you feel this message was generated in error or if there is a business justification for unblocking a specific URL , please contact the
AT&T Wireless Business Security Group.
Re:Oops (Score:5, Funny)
2. pornographic site
3. ???
4. Slashdotted!
Daniel
Fair use has nothing to do with it (Score:5, Funny)
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!!!
Re:Well, clearly Nintendo is crazy (Score:2, Funny)
Re:To Insane Levels (Score:2, Funny)
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!
shares of your feelings (Score:3, Funny)
Re:wait a minute... (Score:1, Funny)
"I mean I've checked this site every day for the past 3 months, just to be 100% sure they aren't abusing our trademark."
Watch out Slashdot! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:WTF? (Score:3, Funny)
Bounce the email with:
Sorry, our spam filter has rejected your email for the reasons listed below:
* Categories: Games (Nintendo)
Re:Well, clearly Nintendo is crazy (Score:5, Funny)
What suicide has to do with geeks, I don't know. Perhaps it's what the girls do after dating one?
Re:Not a good move, Nintendo (Score:3, Funny)
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.
WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE DOING?!?!?!? (Score:5, Funny)
For the love of god and all that's holy, don't do that again!!!
Re:Simple Explanation (Score:5, Funny)
Makes me want to.. (Score:3, Funny)
oh wait my GF just volunteered to pose for the pic, so ummm forget the part about me naked.
Oh wait.
Re:Well, clearly Nintendo is crazy (Score:2, Funny)
Aside: how come whenever one or two people are "offended" by something, they make noise and it's taken down/removed/banned, but the thousands or millions of people that AREN'T offended just sit there?
That's always bugged me. Maybe it's just the way I think, but letting people *choose* seems to make more sense. Because the people that don't like it can choose to avoid it, and the people that do like can, well, choose it!
So I'm gonna have to stick up for SG and say that I want to see it on slashdot's front page, EVERY DAY!!!!
Re:Well, clearly Nintendo is crazy (Score:4, Funny)
Moan
YEEEEEEEES
What was that, again?
Re:Well, clearly Nintendo is crazy (Score:5, Funny)
Almost like a black fly in your Chardonnay...
Re:Suicide Girls at Powell's bookstore (Score:5, Funny)
You do realize most of us lost our "virginity" to the women's underwear section of a Sears catalog.
Re:wait a minute... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Suicide Girls at Powell's bookstore (Score:5, Funny)
John Katz? Is that you?
Re:Oops (Score:4, Funny)
I wonder how many "members" they gained over this incident. Hhhhuh huh.
Opinions... (Score:2, Funny)
and they usually stink.
Do like me... (Score:1, Funny)
BUT DO NOT GIVE THE URL TO ANYONE ELSE THAN THE LAWYERS!!!
Send "Stop IP Infringement <StopInfringement@PerkinsCoie.com> [mailto]" 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...
Re:Suicide Girls at Powell's bookstore (Score:2, Funny)
SuicideGirls could reply (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:Oops (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Suicide Girls at Powell's bookstore (Score:5, Funny)
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!
Re:Well, clearly Nintendo is crazy (Score:5, Funny)
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Re:Well, clearly Nintendo is crazy (Score:5, Funny)
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Or uncommon
-matt
Ob. Out the moron lawyer post... (Score:5, Funny)
Of course, one look at her picture [perkinscoie.com] 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.
Miyamoto what are you up to? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Overlap between geek-goth subcultures... (Score:3, Funny)
*If your culture is interesting, someone will always be happy to sell it back to you at retail prices.
Free Advertising (Score:3, Funny)
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Re:Well, clearly Nintendo is crazy (Score:3, Funny)
Login/Password? (Score:3, Funny)
Send this reply back to them (Score:2, Funny)
Send this reply back to them:
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Re:Overlap between geek-goth subcultures... (Score:3, Funny)
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
Re:Suicide Girls at Powell's bookstore (Score:4, Funny)
Aside from sunlight, I mean.
Hawt, pale, sun-deprived punk-goth chicks of Portland, watch out! I'm coming to the Promised Land!
Re:Well, clearly Nintendo is crazy (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, and at some point France would surrender.
Re:Ob. Out the moron lawyer post... (Score:4, Funny)
Oh I don't know...
Just because she doesn't have any facial metalwear or bolts through her face...
Re:To Insane Levels (Score:3, Funny)
Re:To Insane Levels (Score:2, Funny)
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!"
Re:Well, clearly Nintendo is crazy (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Suicide Girls at Powell's bookstore (Score:5, Funny)
Don't ask. Seriously.
Re:The case is... (Score:5, Funny)
You SERIOUSLY need to update your video drivers. I get 32-bit goth whores here.
Re:Suicide Girls at Powell's bookstore (Score:2, Funny)
Well that's comforting.
Re:Well, clearly Nintendo is crazy (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Well, clearly Nintendo is crazy (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Well, clearly Nintendo is crazy (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, a grinning bullet eight times the height of a man should be pretty easy to spot.
Re:Well, clearly Nintendo is crazy (Score:3, Funny)
Meh. Just look at those sharp knees - she's well below my standards.
Re:Pornographic website? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Suicide Girls at Powell's bookstore (Score:2, Funny)
MOD UP (Score:3, Funny)