Nice to see common sense prevail against such a notorious legal bully.<p>Nintendo has recently launched a major campaign of unprecedented legal attacks on the historical preservation, retro emulation and fan creation communities. While Nintendo has always been protective of its IP rights, this was largely limited to stopping piracy of current titles and protecting their trademarks from commercial infringement, both of which are appropriate and understandable.<p>However, the greatly expanded and all-encompassing scope of their recent legal actions now threatens aspects of non-profit historical preservation and adjacent fan activities unrelated to Nintendo's present day commercial interests. Previously, Nintendo's lawyers made at least some effort to distinguish between non-profit or fan hobby activities and piracy or commercial trademark abuse.
Knowing quite a bit about the world of Costa Rican grocery stores -- many of which started using "Hiper-" (spanish for hyper-) as a prefix in their names a few decades ago, to one-up markets <i>merely</i> named "Super-" [1] -- I'm actually quite suprised they didn't just rename themselves "Hiper Mario" and save the legal fees. But bravo to them for winning against all odds.<p>[1] <a href="https://ticotimes.net/2004/04/02/hipermas-supermarket-aims-for-2005-opening" rel="nofollow">https://ticotimes.net/2004/04/02/hipermas-supermarket-aims-f...</a>
This has to be “AI in the workplace” going awry. There’s no way an actual human thought they were adding value to a business or protecting business interests by going after this person. It’d be insane.
related post, nintendo lawyer bragging about threatening innocent children: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40985815">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40985815</a>