The lights are on
Nintendo does things its own way and at its own speed, there’s no denying that. If you need an example just take a look back at its online strategy. Speaking of the Internet, the company has finally secured the rights to www.supermario.com. We understand why Nintendo may not have netted the domain back when the game was released in 1985, what with the internet still being in its infancy. But waiting almost two decades after the start of the Information Age? That’s like goomba speed, or something!
According to Fusible, Nintendo issued a complaint last August with the World Intellectual Property Organization because someone else held the rights to supermario.com. Since then the website’s owner has handed the domain name over to Nintendo, though it seems there may be some ongoing litigation over illegally-hosted Mario games. Another victory for Nintendo.
Don’t bother visiting supermario.com now, however, as it’s pretty much nonexistent.
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Nintendo always was a little late on the bandwagon, and I thought their words on online and consumers kind of made that well known. Still this is pretty surprising since I would have assumed they'd have done it forever ago.
maybe they'll do something with it i doubt it tho
If supermario.com was doing something useful before, but isn't gonna do so now under Nintendo's jurisdiction, then... O_0 Seems kinda like a disservice to Mario Fans... :(
Hooray???
is it just me, or is nintendo acting more and more adamant about intellectual property?
It would've been nice for the previous domain owner if he'd got some money out of it, but I'm pretty sure he probably didn't since he was violating some copyright issues. Either way, I hope Nintendo does something with the domain and I'd rather it not be just another crappy game site plagued with little to no information and way too much flash.
Yay Nintendo?
I don't get what all the fuss is about, it's not like they've desperately needed it all this time. Nintendo's got some priorities, if but a few.
I guess they didn't want a ModernWarfare3.com on their hands lol.