Nintendo Closes It's Anti-Piracy Site

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Darwinianevolution on 08 May 2019

Noone followed it anyway, so why bother keeping it up?

You know it deserves the GOTY.

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sethnintendo on 08 May 2019

They will never give up. Just ask that guy from Arizona or New Mexico that ran that popular ROM site. He got his ass handed to him by Nintendo's lawyers.

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Bofferbrauer2 on 08 May 2019

CaptainExplosion said:

RolStoppable said:
If that screenshot is a recent one and the most recent news were posted in 2007, then it doesn't surprise me that the site has been closed.

I thought it was from the original design circa 1997.

Too organized and colorful for 97, browsers couldn't really handle that back then. But in 02-04 period, it became possible, and the design looks like it have been from around then.

the Domain rent probably ran out, and Nintendo had no intention to pay for it anymore. I mean, last news over 10 years old, so...

The Nintendo eShop rating Thread: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=237454 List as Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aW2hXQT1TheElVS7z-F3pP-7nbqdrDqWNTxl6JoJWBY/edit?usp=sharing

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sethnintendo on 08 May 2019

CaptainExplosion said:

sethnintendo said:
They will never give up. Just ask that guy from Arizona or New Mexico that ran that popular ROM site. He got his ass handed to him by Nintendo's lawyers.

If they're that effective then shouldn't Nintendo has used them against Gamevice over their Joycon patent trolling?

Maybe they are waiting for Mario Kart Tour to drop on mobile or they don't view them as any threat. Didn't that Gamevice have some crappy "bridge" linking the controllers. Anyways, maybe people in other countries use them but I have never seen anyone put a controller around their phone or use dedicated controllers while playing their phone in public.

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sethnintendo on 08 May 2019

RolStoppable said:

CaptainExplosion said:

If they're that effective then shouldn't Nintendo has used them against Gamevice over their Joycon patent trolling?

I couldn't find any news that Gamevice won a case against Nintendo or that the lawsuit was withdrawn due to a settlement between Gamevice and Nintendo.

Only recent major cases Nintendo lost were the 3DS screen (which they apparently later won in appeals court and higher court) and the Philips Wiimote technology case. I'm still pissed at Philips to this day. Sometimes I have to buy products made by them though... They have the market cornered on 8' fluorescent tubes.