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<blockquote data-quote="gamer" data-source="post: 6643"><img src="http://kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/07/swatnintendo.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><a href="http://kotaku.com/gaming/business/nintendo-touches-suicide-girls-24369.php" target="_blank">Remember how touchy Nintendo&#039;s lawyers got over a pretty girl with a passion for Metroid?</a> Yeah, you should see what happens when they catch some Uruguayans producing countereit <a href="http://kotaku.com/gaming/nintendo/" target="_blank">Nintendo</a> products. Back in 2001, some warehouses were raided in Montevideo and over 30,000 dodgy Nintendo &quot;video game products&quot; were seized. The warehouse&#039;s owner was arrested, and despite beating criminal charges in the local courts, was also the subject of a civil action suit filed by Nintendo. Which they&#039;re very excited to tell us they just won.The victory means the owner owes Nintendo USD$2.5 million, chiefly because he was &quot;obtaining sizeable profits and damaging Nintendo&#039;s reputation&quot;. Jodi Daugherty, senior director of <a href="http://kotaku.com/gaming/nintendo-of-america/" target="_blank">Nintendo of America</a>&#039;s bloodthirsty, elite anti-<a href="http://kotaku.com/gaming/piracy/" target="_blank">piracy</a> squad, is understandably chuffed.This action exemplifies Nintendo&#039;s commitment to combat the international problem of product piracy. These types of illegal operations simply will not be tolerated and Nintendo will do everything in its power to protect its business and its customers.OK, I&#039;m coming out with it. All this tough Nintendo talk? Totally turning me on. Go bust someone else, Nintendo, and this time, do it faster. And harder.<a href="http://press.nintendo.com/articles.jsp?id=12701" target="_blank">A URUGUAYAN COUNTERFEITER IS ORDERED TO PAY NINTENDO 2.5 MILLION U.S. DOLLARS</a> [Nintendo]<a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/kotaku/full?a=MRUimr" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/kotaku/full?i=MRUimr" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />&lt;/img&gt;</a><a href="http://kotaku.com/gaming/the-fuzz/nintendo-defeats-evil-uruguayan-counterfeiter-275449.php" target="_blank">More...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="gamer, post: 6643"] [IMG]http://kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/07/swatnintendo.jpg[/IMG][URL="http://kotaku.com/gaming/business/nintendo-touches-suicide-girls-24369.php"]Remember how touchy Nintendo's lawyers got over a pretty girl with a passion for Metroid?[/URL] Yeah, you should see what happens when they catch some Uruguayans producing countereit [URL="http://kotaku.com/gaming/nintendo/"]Nintendo[/URL] products. Back in 2001, some warehouses were raided in Montevideo and over 30,000 dodgy Nintendo "video game products" were seized. The warehouse's owner was arrested, and despite beating criminal charges in the local courts, was also the subject of a civil action suit filed by Nintendo. Which they're very excited to tell us they just won. The victory means the owner owes Nintendo USD$2.5 million, chiefly because he was "obtaining sizeable profits and damaging Nintendo's reputation". Jodi Daugherty, senior director of [URL="http://kotaku.com/gaming/nintendo-of-america/"]Nintendo of America[/URL]'s bloodthirsty, elite anti-[URL="http://kotaku.com/gaming/piracy/"]piracy[/URL] squad, is understandably chuffed.[INDENT]This action exemplifies Nintendo's commitment to combat the international problem of product piracy. These types of illegal operations simply will not be tolerated and Nintendo will do everything in its power to protect its business and its customers.[/INDENT]OK, I'm coming out with it. All this [I]tough [/I]Nintendo talk? Totally turning me on. Go bust someone else, Nintendo, and this time, do it faster. And [I]harder[/I]. [URL="http://press.nintendo.com/articles.jsp?id=12701"]A URUGUAYAN COUNTERFEITER IS ORDERED TO PAY NINTENDO 2.5 MILLION U.S. DOLLARS[/URL] [Nintendo] [URL="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/kotaku/full?a=MRUimr"][IMG]http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/kotaku/full?i=MRUimr[/IMG]</img>[/URL] [url=http://kotaku.com/gaming/the-fuzz/nintendo-defeats-evil-uruguayan-counterfeiter-275449.php]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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