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Online R4 Retailer Sued by Nintendo

by Pedro Hernandez - May 14, 2010, 3:13 am EDT
Total comments: 2 Source: Gamesutra Online

The cause behind Nintendo's battle is the sale of chips that enable piracy on the DS.

Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against Queens, New York based company NXPGAME. According to Nintendo, the company owns several websites that sell illegal copying products. When asked to stop selling the product, the company agreed, but later continued to sell the product under a different website address.

The suit explains that customers were sent to another website in order to continue purchasing their products. Nintendo has tried several times to stop the retailer to stop selling the products, and now accuses them of "willfully infringing on the company’s intellectual property rights."

Nintendo also stated that the company infringed Nintendo's copyrights by using its registered trademarks.

"Using game copiers to play unauthorized downloaded games is illegal and it’s wrong," explains Jodi Daugherty, Nintendo of America’s senior director of Anti-Piracy.

BIT.TRIP series creator Gaijin Games also stated that 70 percent of their audience reached their games illegally, according to CEO Alex Neuse. "When their creative works are stolen and copied illegally, some companies find it difficult to survive economically," says Daugherty.

Talkback

TJ SpykeMay 14, 2010

Seems pretty open and shut, the company was selling products that were designed to be used for illegal acts and continued selling them even after Nintendo asked them to stop.

LouieturkeyMay 14, 2010

Quote from: TJ

Seems pretty open and shut, the company was selling products that were designed to be used for illegal acts and continued selling them even after Nintendo asked them to stop.

On top of that, they stated that they agreed to stop selling them and then just created a new website.  Why they linked to it from the original website, I have no idea.  Did they really think Nintendo wouldn't find it?

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