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O-D-C on 06 October 2009

thats odd..



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MaxwellGT2000 on 06 October 2009
mibuokami said:
MaxwellGT2000 said:
mibuokami said:
MaxwellGT2000 said:
leo-j said:
Untouch said:
Yes because nintendo wants to be sued.

Maybe they have so much money, that they want to just give it away roflmao

Their way of giving Sony a handout without looking so charitable... bazing!  Actually this sort of thing happens a lot, people obtain the rights to domain names to games before they're even announced and hope to use it as some way of extorting money or some other form of compensation from the said company (usually just free copies of the game someone tried that with modern warfare 2)

Now if Sony wants the site and to have the site not promote Nintendo they'll have to work a deal out with this guy.

Actually I don't think they need to do this, in most cases this is handled by lawyers who issue cease and desist notice about some copyright violation crap. Company do this to fansites all the time.

Hrm I really have no idea how the rights work for websites and domain names, I know the whole reason why IGN changed to IGN was the request of Nintendo because their Nintendo 64 section was N64.com, many people thought it was the offical site for N64 and not the Nintendo site.  It was a request not a case with lawyers and such, I have seen some companies force people to give up domain names that way but its usually terrible for their own Rep and they'd rather work it out without making a big deal out of it IE cutting a deal with said domain owner.

Na, when its big corporation its actually fairly polite on initial contact, sorta like 'please do this before we begin litigation to make you stop doing this' kinda 'threat that is not a threat'. It only begins to become an issue if the fella resist. Most fansite are given the same treatment, although some could be fairly callous about the whole thing as some of these cases are outsourced.

I think one case that made the news in the UK a while back was about a 10 year old girls who got notice from lawyers demanding that she take down her pokemon fansite. Boy was that a sob story... :P

yeesh, yeah Nintendo has those Ninja Lawyers on their side you don't mess with them if there isn't a law that supports their claim they'll make one appear.*Hates those same Ninja Lawyers cause they prevent Earthbound from making it's VC return!* *suddenly feels a sharp pain in the back* "Oh its just a poison tipped kunai"

I have seen it go either way like some people just wanting something minor in exchange for the domain name, typically the companies aren't really mean about it and might look into it.  But you're probably right on this one.



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bdbdbd on 06 October 2009

@Maxwell: Basically they are normal copyright cases and how they are treated depends on the local law and domain. It could lead into a long and expensive fight in a court. Such as this case here.



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Kantor on 06 October 2009

Almost as good as this:

http://www.modernwarfare4.com/



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