Nintendo sues porn user

Found on The Inquirer on Thursday, 28 October 2004
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The chaps at Perkins Coie law firm are unhappy that a registered member of the SuicideGirls site, a chap by the name of Runelateralus, has listed in his 'Interests' bio that he likes Metroid, Zelda and F-Zero - all Nintendo games. Nintendo is unhappy that its intellectual property is being used in conjunction with a site that is sexually explicit. Poor old Runey, it appears, simply wanted other porn viewers to know his gaming habits.

To say that Nintendo doesn't have a hope in hell of pulling this off, fnarr, would be an understatement. Americans benefit from very strong free speech laws, and since this is not a commercial use of the intellectual property by SuicideGirls, more an incidental mention, it will certainly fall within fair use guidelines - much as an academic is allowed to reference a copyrighted work for the purposes of criticism.

Would everybody who looks at porn please stop using Nintendo products since they don't like having connections to bare skin? This good will action could easily cost them 90% of their customers (probably even more).