Originally posted by DahrkDaiz

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It is believed waivering sales recently is due to the high attention and popularity of this "Mario Adventure" and your forthcoming "Luigi vs Mario". These two titles will undoubtedly cause drop in sales for our future Mario game products, such as The New Super Mario Bros., so we regret to say we are prosecuting you for you illegal activities.

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Originally posted by Tweaker

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lol, happy April Fools to you too. ;P

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Originally posted by Tweaker

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lol, happy April Fools to you too. ;P

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From: law@iprights.com
To: drx@hacking-cult.org
Subject: URGENT - SONIC TRADE MARK INFRINGEMENT

Dear Sirs

Our client: SEGA Europe Limited

We act on behalf of SEGA Europe Limited (SEGA) in the
enforcement of its Intellectual Property Rights in the United
Kingdom.

As you will be aware, Sega is world famous and is recognised as being an
industry leader in interactive entertainment. Sega, and its software
developer Sega Technical Institute (STI) have created a game called
Sonic X-Treme. As a result of the recent actions of several former
STI employees, a large ammount of attention has been driven to this
game.

Further, SEGA is the owner of a UK trade mark registration for SONIC THE
HEDGEHOG. We attach details of the UK registered
trade mark for your information.

It has come to our client's attention that through the service
provided by your hacking-cult.org website, users are able, by
clicking on a link on your website featuring the Sonic X-Treme trade
mark, to download an unauthorised and illegal version of our client's
Sonic X-Treme game. In this regard, your website is currently listing
Sonic X-Treme as number 1 in its 'News' and a substantial number of UK
users used your services to download this game in the UK.

By providing this service to UK users using the Sonic X-Treme name,
you are infringing the SONIC THE HEDGEHOG trade mark in the UK. Further,
our client is concerned that due to the volume of illegal copies of our
client's Sonic X-Treme game being provided via your service our client
is losing substantial sums of money in hard work of many STI developers.

This email is ask that you immediately remove the link complained of, and
to confirm that there will be no further misuse of the SONIC THE HEDGEHOG
trade mark in relation to your services.

In the meantime, our client reserves its rights in respect of any causes
of action available to it in this matter and in respect of any claim for
costs and/or damages against you. In this regard, your speed in complying
with our requests will be taken into account.

Yours faithfully

Willoughby & Partners

The Isis Building, 193 Marsh Wall, Thames Quay, London, E14 9SG, United
Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)207 345 8888 Direct Fax: +44 (0)207 345 4555
law@iprights.com

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