Nintendo gets all legally fired up to take down a fansite

[Zeus]

According to reports, Nintendo has gone to legal efforts in a bid to make a US fansite called Friendcodes.com drop its logo and domain name. The site states that "Nintendo is “asking” us to remove the site files that are infringing the copyright (such as the logo, which contains the word “friendcodes”), and to drop the domain name for the same reason."

News Source: <A href="http://www.friendcodes.com/forums/save-fc/79500-nintendo-friend-codes-fate-%2Aupdate%2A.html#post733966" target="_blank">Friendcodes.com</a>

[MadonnaProject]

they may have cutesy characters, cushy mascots. but when it comes to the environment, and business this company is no holds barred brutal bully that will make microsoft look like a pink hamster.

[KingPepper]

:eek:
According to reports, Nintendo has gone to legal efforts in a bid to make a US fansite called Friendcodes.com drop its logo and domain name. The site states that "Nintendo is “asking” us to remove the site files that are infringing the copyright (such as the logo, which contains the word “friendcodes”), and to drop the domain name for the same reason."

News Source: <A href="http://www.friendcodes.com/forums/save-fc/79500-nintendo-friend-codes-fate-%2Aupdate%2A.html#post733966" target="_blank">Friendcodes.com</a>

All you people who have purchased Nintendo products and that includes me, have made Nintendo power mad, shame on us all :eek:

[Monkey01]

they may have cutesy characters, cushy mascots. but when it comes to the environment, and business this company is no holds barred brutal bully that will make microsoft look like a pink hamster.
Well, Microsoft did the same some time ago for all .com domains containing the phrase msn in it. I think they're both just as evil.

Nintendo probably just wants to have the domain themselves to make it a site with a warning on it to absolutely under no circumstance give your friendcode to people you don't know, cause else you might play against someone you don't know online, who might have their four predefined messages set in such a way that they may contain offensive words or something.

[DEDDOA]

it's quite simple, nintendo want the domain name. After many years working at the patent office I found this is a pretty common event. A big company bullies people into giving up the domain nane they want with threats of court action, and they ge the thing for free. The really sad thing is that they get away with it as well as most people can't afford to defend themselves :(

Yes this is a another prime example of a big company finding a site name they want is taken, so they are trying to force the owner to give it them freely :mad:

[0 morgan 0]

It's not so bad, they only have to surrender the domain name and remove the logo. It's not like there asking for them to remove the site forever, just to set it up on a different domain with a different name and logo.

[Coolza]

It's not so bad, they only have to surrender the domain name and remove the logo. It's not like there asking for them to remove the site forever, just to set it up on a different domain with a different name and logo.
That would take our developers near a month since they'd have to remove "friendcode" from the website coding.
Also, THANK YOU ZEUS! I'm staff from Friendcodes, and we are trying very hard to keep the site up.
If you want to help us, do your part and Digg this Article!
http://digg.com/nintendo/Nintendo_Shutting_Down_Its_Own_Fan_Sites

[Erroneuz]

It's called protection of a trademark.

Try to make a website which is called something with google and uses google in it's domain and go see what happens.

Offcourse it sucks for Friendscodes.com, but maybe they should have used a bit more time to think it through, when choosing a name.

Change name, if your site THAT good, people will still use it and I dont buy into it will take a MONTH to change, if that so, either your devs sucks or is a VERY VERY static coding on that site.

[Coolza]

They'd have to remove "friendcodes" from the Game Hubs, which is a lot of coding started from scratch.

[Astrax]

Reminds me of the early 90's nintendo

[spongey]

Reminds me of the early 90's nintendo

Now they've got public respect back, its back to crapping on their fans as usual!

Go Nintendo!

[rddr]

Wow take this Sh*t down. It was a early April Fool's Joke
http://www.friendcodes.com/forums/news-and-notes/79622-uhhh-april-fools.html

[kcvfr400]

Reminds me of the early 90's nintendo

Those where the days over pricing streetfighter 2 and caught price fixing too lol.

[BladeX]

well if its true you'll just have to change the name and the domain and do the re-coding you can't win against nintendo :p

[shakoor_h]

It was an April Fool's Joke check the main page www.friendcodes.com.

Remove topic from news,

[zymologist]

That would take our developers near a month since they'd have to remove "friendcode" from the website coding.
Also, THANK YOU ZEUS! I'm staff from Friendcodes, and we are trying very hard to keep the site up.
If you want to help us, do your part and Digg this Article!
http://digg.com/nintendo/Nintendo_Shutting_Down_Its_Own_Fan_Sites
you need better developers. that's a 10 minute job at most, I certainly hope they're working for free if it takes them that long


sed -e 's/Friendcode/Buddynumber/g' inputFileName > outputFileName

[zymologist]

It was an April Fool's Joke check the main page www.friendcodes.com.

Remove topic from news,

lame. it's not april anywhere on the planet yet

[BladeX]

your supposed to wait till april fools you tools. otherwise it's just an annoying joke. it's only funny on AF!

[Coolza]

They were going to wait until April fools, and when you tried to access the site, there'll be an explanation of the site being down and a link to a temp. forum, which really linked you to Rick Roll.