5th Gen Nintendo Taking action?

[Livewire]

It's an elaborate hoax, the letter is chock full of typo's and the legal jargon inserted into it makes no sense. I have Lawyers among my friends and family, and that looks like no affidavit or notice ive ever seen. An elaborate hoax, nothing more.

Here-

Spoiler:

VIA EMAIL
URGENT & TIME SENSITIVE: IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUIRED
September 18, 2010
Registrant
PokeBeach.com
RE: Infringement of Nintendo of America Inc.'s Intellectual Property Rights

Dear Sir or Madam:

We are legal counsel to Nintendo of America Inc. (referred to here, with its parent and affiliated
companies, as "Nintendo"). As you are no doubt well aware, Nintendo is one of the world's
leading developers and distributors of video game products. The Pokémon franchise is one of
Nintendo's most popular game series, and the upcoming release of the Pokémon Black and
Pokémon White video games has garnered significant media attention. The intellectual property
associated with the games, including the copyright in the underlying software code, visual
depictions of the games, and characters found within the games, is the subject of copyright
protection in the United States and abroad.

We recently learned that you have posted screenshots and other protected content from the
Pokémon Black and Pokémon White games to your website at https://pokebeach.com. While
Nintendo appreciates your interest in and support of the Pokémon game series, your publication
of this content infringes Nintendo's copyrights in violation of federal law. Your activity also and
has the potential to cause substantial damage to Nintendo, and leaves Nintendo with no choice
but to take steps to protect its intellectual property rights.

We have accordingly submitted a copyright infringement notice to your domain registrar under
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and anticipate that your website will be taken down shortly.
We encourage you to immediately remove from your website all graphics, screenshots, and
other protected content taken from the Pokémon Black and Pokémon White games. Going
forward, you must also refrain from posting any screenshots, videos, or other content that
infringes Nintendo's rights in the Pokémon series or any other game.

Your full and immediate compliance with the foregoing should render further action on
Nintendo's part unnecessary. It is essential that we receive your written response confirming
that you have taken these necessary actions by Sunday, September 19, 12:00 p.m. PDT,
however, or Nintendo will have no choice but to consider its alternative legal remedies.

PokeBeach.com
September 18, 2010
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Please contact me if you would like to discuss this matter in further detail. Nothing stated herein
shall constitute a waiver of any rights or remedies of Nintendo of America Inc., its parent or
affiliated companies, all of which are expressly reserved.

Very truly yours,
X

 

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

It's most likely a hoax or nintendo lawyers need to go to grammar school...

 

[●•ΛΣЯӨЩ•●]

Gah, Why would they start now?
If they did wanna stop people, them must have started this a long time ago...

 

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

Gah, Why would they start now?
If they did wanna stop people, them must have started this a long time ago...

I'm not sure but they did the same thing in Manga site recently so I'm guessing Japan creators want to target the internet so people can buy their stuff...also they might beleive that the images come from the roms...

 

[countryemo]

k i just read it, i didnt see any or much errors. but i would do it myself as im not good at this stuff. but reading it, i think its fake.

hey, i see pokebeach has images still. haha.

 

[The Red Chain]

I don't think it's a hoax guys.

Look at Serebii. This page was chock full of all the Isshu Pokemon's pictures. They are all gone. If you go to his home page, you'll see every B&W picture he had up there earlier today is gone. If not all, most of the B&W screenshots and sprites on Serebii.net are completely removed.

There would be no reason for this if it were a fake warning. I could be missing something, but I really think that Nintendo's serious.
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[SIN1488]

I don't think it's a hoax guys.

Look at Serebii. This page was chock full of all the Isshu Pokemon's pictures. They are all gone. If you go to his home page, you'll see every B&W picture he had up there earlier today is gone. If not all, most of the B&W screenshots and sprites on Serebii.net are completely removed.

There would be no reason for this if it were a fake warning. I could be missing something, but I really think that Nintendo's serious.
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Preemptive action, that's what that probably is.

 

[JP]

I don't think it's a hoax guys.

Look at Serebii. This page was chock full of all the Isshu Pokemon's pictures. They are all gone. If you go to his home page, you'll see every B&W picture he had up there earlier today is gone. If not all, most of the B&W screenshots and sprites on Serebii.net are completely removed.

There would be no reason for this if it were a fake warning. I could be missing something, but I really think that Nintendo's serious.
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I would imagine the reason he took everything down like that would be in case it is something that's real. Better to be safe than to take a chance. Him removing the images doesn't necessarily mean the letter is real and not a hoax though.

The only thing to me that would make it seem legit is that Bulbapedia reported how Pokebeach's webmaster actually gave a call to the number listed and talked to someone. Granted, that is something that could be easily done, but it does add that sense of legitimacy.

 

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

I don't think it's a hoax guys.

Look at Serebii. This page was chock full of all the Isshu Pokemon's pictures. They are all gone. If you go to his home page, you'll see every B&W picture he had up there earlier today is gone. If not all, most of the B&W screenshots and sprites on Serebii.net are completely removed.

There would be no reason for this if it were a fake warning. I could be missing something, but I really think that Nintendo's serious.
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Yeah but oddly Pokebeach hasn't...if it's real than Pokebeach is going to get into some legal trouble...

 

[mervyn797]

Oh God, if this is true, what will happen of my Screenies thread? I still don't get it. Aren't we promoting Nintendo's game by posting pictures of it? We aren't linking Roms or even making Anti-piracy patches.

 

[Netto Azure]

Don't panic. That was just a preeptive action by Joe. :U

And yeah, they should have served this e-mail through the admin's emails not the WHOIS domain name email listing >_>

 

[The Red Chain]

You guys make good points. I honestly do hope that this isn't real however. I liked being able to see B&W pictures, and I wanted the shiny sprites to be put up. That's what I was really looking forward to on his website. ]:

I wonder why they are only now being uptight about it after so many years...
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[Planetes.]

Guys if this IS just a troll, we could assume Pokebeach's webmaster told Serebii of the letter. So this troll could spread if both Pokebeach's Webmaster (sry whats his name) and Serebii believe its real. WE should be the ones taking action and at least have them double-check if its legit.

 

[SIN1488]

Maybe it's a conspiracy, and Nintendo hired someone to send out fake emails to cause a bunch of controversy so they would get even more coverage. :O

:P

 

[dieter57]

ok, fail.
like many of you have said before me, why would they do it now?
and didn't the games come out officially today in japan?
and if you get them shipped here instead of posting screen shots of ROMs couldn't you just post pics of the actual game itself?
so really, they would only stop it for a little while.
and if becomes illegal to do all of that then i guess we just wait for 6 months.

 

[Netto Azure]

Guys if this IS just a troll, we could assume Pokebeach's webmaster told Serebii of the letter. So this troll could spread if both Pokebeach's Webmaster (sry whats his name) and Serebii believe its real. WE should be the ones taking action and at least have them double-check if its legit.

Don't worry ... people are already contacting the appropriate channels

 

[Planetes.]

^a'ight I just don't want to see all the screenshots taken down from the fansites that they had worked so hard to find just because of some troll.

 

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

Hmm what if the webmaster of Pokebeach made it...and sent it to himself and then to Serebii to get them to take down their pics while they keep thiers and get more viewers...I'm overthinking things huh?

 

[fenyx4]

^a'ight I just don't want to see all the screenshots taken down from the fansites that they had worked so hard to find just because of some troll.

I would laugh if PokeBeach's owner and Serebii, among others, actually head out to kick that troll's butt severely for inconveniencing all of us Pokemon fans like this. :cer_laugh: I'm doubting whether the origin of the email, if it is a troll, will actually be traced, though...

 

[ManhattanTheStarr]

Why is the title of this thread so funny to me... XD

ANYWAYS, I have no idea if this a hoax or the real deal... Some of the things pointed out though makes me think this could all just be some troll act or something. Especially the letter first saying "we", then "me" as I believe someone stated. But WPM actually contacting the person who sent him the letter makes this seem pretty legit... X_X