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Acmlm's Board - I3 Archive - ROM Hacking - Lost Thread #4026 | New poll | | |
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DahrkDaiz Nipper Plant U wan hax Mario?! Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6433 days Last view: 6432 days |
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From : legalnotice@noa.nintendo.com
Sent : Friday, March 31, 04:01:06 To : dahrkdaiz@hotmail.com Subject : Legal Notice from Nintendo of America Hello Mr. Travis Houk: It has come to Nintendo of America's that you, Mr. Travis Houk, under the alias of DahrkDaiz, have illegal copies of the game Super Mario Bros. 3 hosted on your site at *link removed*. Legal action may swiftly take place if said files are not removed in a timely fashion. Furthermore, emulation in general is illegal and unneccessary. There are many great ports to current generation console systems of all of your favorite games, including Super Mario Bros. 3. Unfortunately, it is regrettable to have found out copyright laws and trademark infringement have also taken place under your alias. The popular title "Mario Adventure" has received great praise an attention and your work is impressive. As great as this may seems, it is still illegal and unnecessary. Legal action must be taken on your activities since there has been financial damage caused in your modifications of copyrigted games via usage of a ROM image file. We must also ask you to discontinue all activities relating to hosting ROM images, modification of them and any further infringement of Nintendo products. Legal action cannot be ignored in this case. 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. Further information of our legal actions and court dates shall be e-mailed to you shortly. We will need your personal address and phone number. Denying this information will delay the process and cause more harm than good. Cooperation with the legal system will ensure that both parties will get this case solved swiftly and with justice. We look forward to meeting you and discussing the issues at hand. Nintendo Coorperate Manager Nintendo of America Redmond, Washington, USA So yeah, due to this crap I won't be doing any more rom hacking for a while and if they're dead serious about this, not much of anything else. I'm royally screwed (edited by DahrkDaiz on 04-01-06 02:03 AM) |
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AlexAR Ninji Since: 02-27-06 From: TX Last post: 6434 days Last view: 6432 days |
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Originally posted by DahrkDaiz Are you serious? Like these suits are really gonna say something so complementary... I'm sure your hacks are of elite quality..but cmon..like Nintendo would take the time to see what your "forthcoming" projects are... oh..and "waivering" is spelled wrong...would Nintendo forget to use spell check? its wavering |
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Guy Perfect Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6434 days Last view: 6432 days |
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There are numerous misspellings and grammatical inaccuracies in the notice. I'm suspicious about that myself.
Though they can't legally do anything unless you actually DID have the ROM or a modified copy thereof on your site. Either way, I would be careful in the immediate future. |
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DahrkDaiz Nipper Plant U wan hax Mario?! Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6433 days Last view: 6432 days |
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The problem is I DID have it and I told no one about the link. It was there for private beta testers...
Also, they attached a PDF of their copy of their deal with emulation and what not, same thing that's on their site I think. I think they were complimenting me to make me feel like they were the good guys and doing the right thing. (edited by DahrkDaiz on 04-01-06 01:44 AM) |
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Apophis Ropa Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6432 days Last view: 6431 days |
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this sucks man. i was really looking forward to LvM. | |||
DahrkDaiz Nipper Plant U wan hax Mario?! Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6433 days Last view: 6432 days |
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Well I'm going to still work on it, this just means I can't really release it. Publicly. I'll find someway to get it out to the world. I just wonder if they'll attack others like Fusoya or BMF. | |||
Arthus 140 Since: 11-17-05 From: Australia Last post: 6644 days Last view: 6644 days |
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Who knows, they might ask you to program old NES games and port them to later systems... | |||
Deleted User Banned Since: 05-08-06 Last post: None Last view: 6432 days |
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shit! I want to play this but... | |||
Guy Perfect Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6434 days Last view: 6432 days |
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noalegal@nintendo.com is for reporting potential infringements. I believe legalnotice@nintendo.com is for prosecution. | |||
DahrkDaiz Nipper Plant U wan hax Mario?! Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6433 days Last view: 6432 days |
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Seems Sliver-X (owner of Panicus.org) got emails from both NOA and the site administrators about the ordeal | |||
drjayphd Torosu OW! BURNY! Since: 11-18-05 From: CT Last post: 6435 days Last view: 6432 days |
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(points at date)
I do hope that's the case, although with his profile, it might just be a coinkydink. |
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Sliver X Since: 11-22-05 From: Panicus Last post: 6442 days Last view: 6440 days |
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Yeah, I got a letter from them as well:
From: nintendo@noa.nintendo.com Date: March 31 12:52:29 PM PDT To: worldmachine@panicus.org Subject: Mario Adventure Infringement of Nintendo Intellectual Property Rights IDENTIFIED PROBLEM: Copyrighted ROM file on server. Greetings: We represent Nintendo of America Inc. ("Nintendo"), the owner of the trademark(s) and/or copyrighted works listed above (the "Nintendo trademark(s)/works"). It has come to our client's attention recently that you are using the Nintendo trademark(s)/works in the hidden page http://dahrkdaiz.panicus.org. This use is unauthorized, and we are writing to demand that you immediately cease and desist this infringement of Nintendo's intellectual property rights. Nintendo has acquired substantial rights in the Nintendo trademark(s)/works. Nintendo's customers--including many children and their parents--have come to identify the Nintendo trademark(s)/works with the high quality of Nintendo products. Your unauthorized use of the Nintendo trademark(s)/works will tarnish Nintendo's reputation. This infringement of Nintendo's intellectual property rights can subject you to sanctions under applicable federal and state laws. Accordingly, you must immediately cease and desist from any and all use of (1) the Nintendo trademark(s)/works, (2) any other Nintendo trademark(s)/works, and (3) any mark which is confusingly similar to a Nintendo trademark. This includes, but is not limited to, your infringement of Nintendo's intellectual property as explained above. I look forward to your immediate confirmation that you have taken the necessary steps to resolve this matter. To that end, you may contact me at either 206‑359‑6742 or StopInfringement@perkinscoie.com. Sincerely, Christie Hamilton Nintendo of America Inc. Consumer Service Department Message(#6851-000372-58283725828) My hosting providers have pulled Panicus.org down, as you can see if you try to access any page on it. I have no idea what's going to happen next. |
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Tweaker Red Koopa Since: 11-18-05 From: Rochester, NY Last post: 6432 days Last view: 6432 days |
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lol, happy April Fools to you too. ;P | |||
Apophis Ropa Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6432 days Last view: 6431 days |
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I wish that were so. DD told me about this when he first received it. He just waited a while to decide to post about it. At first he wasn't sure what to do. | |||
Deleted User Banned Since: 05-08-06 Last post: None Last view: 6432 days |
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Originally posted by Tweaker aare this joke? wath this is...? joke? joke or not? |
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Sliver X Since: 11-22-05 From: Panicus Last post: 6442 days Last view: 6440 days |
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No, it's not. My letter was dated yesterday. | |||
spel werdz rite Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6433 days Last view: 6431 days |
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Originally posted by Tweaker Wait what? I'm so going hindsight bias here, but I knew that Darhk Daiz, if anyone would not put a totallt modified ROM on the Internet. I'm still confused a bit though... |
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KTurbo Poppy Bros. Jr Since: 11-19-05 From: Schweden Last post: 6435 days Last view: 6433 days |
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See. I think the way they got to know about DD's hack is through that newspaper(?) site which reviewed it. I surely didn't tell them. What a pity... | |||
Tweaker Red Koopa Since: 11-18-05 From: Rochester, NY Last post: 6432 days Last view: 6432 days |
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Just read the letter - you can tell that the style of writing isn't professional enough to be real. I'll post an authentic example:
They use a pre-written template and fill in key words later. There's a least three more letters almost exactly like this around the internet. =P Also, if the email was real, they'd tell you to keep it confidential (in most cases, like this). That's not fair to judge by though, so I'll obstain. |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6432 days Last view: 6432 days |
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Dude! Don't post that here, what if they find it? They could get the whole board shut down! |
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