"Originally found by Gamegeschiedenis, classic photos show Nintendo literally taking the fight to piracy. The images, captured by various sources, show Nintendo using a roller in the Netherlands to destroy thousands of counterfeit games. Even Mario was present at the event."

“Video game company Nintendo is using a roller to combat piracy. At Lelystad airport ten thousand counterfeit video games were crushed. The Japanese company has started a targeted and structured worldwide campaign to combat forgeries of their video games. The destroyed games came from Hong Kong and were confiscated from a Dutch importing company.”

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Times never change, while physical counterfeit copies are no longer such a big deal these days, Nintendo does however defend their IPs by DMCA-ing fan games and shutting down "HD" recreations on the internet. While I personally agree in the rights of most copyright owners to defend their creations, I know quite a few people on this site that disagree. What do you think, should Nintendo continue having Mario steam-rolling fan made games and recreations?

(updated Jan 28th)

Mario was there in person? *Mafia theme plays*

The thing is that they need to defend their IP in EVERY case, because if they let it slide in a few cases, when it's a serious case the law will look back and be like "Hey, you remember that time when...? You must let it go this time too".

Indeed he was! Just re-added some pictures, hopefully it doesn't appear broken this time.

They're broken again : /

Don't know why, but on mobile if you click on the broken image and click view it shows up. idk why it keeps showing it as broken... :(

Well at least you tried.

Basically this. Though this problem is mostly limited to tge US courts.

They're upfront about protecting their properties and combating piracy, so why not make a show of it? I'd watch Mario and Luigi wail on physical media with those Paper Mario hammers for a while.