FBI Cracks Down on Piracy of Obsolete Game

Alien54 wrote to mention a story detailing an FBI crackdown on pirated...NES games. From the article: "More than 60,000 pirated copies of Nintendo game consoles were seized Wednesday during raids in New York and New Jersey, prosecutors announced. Four people were arrested in the crackdown on the theft of popular games such as "Donkey Kong," "Mario Brothers," "Duck Hunt," "Baseball" and others, according to a release by federal authorities and papers filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Nintendo told the FBI that individuals and companies copy the video games and sell the pirated versions throughout the world, costing the company millions of dollars in lost revenue annually, according to the complaint."

How ridiculous.

[DeanMeister]

Next we'll be arresting people for making flash animations of copywrited material with really bad translations. Psh. So how much does a NES game go for these days? Buck and a quarter? Buck Fifty? Thank god the man put these criminals at bay. All your base.

Arrrr !!

[AtariAmarok]

"our beloved Homeland Security leaders bring us ... NES pirates."

Arrrr! They be only 9 pixels wide, and be made of 3 colors, but arrr, these NES buccaneers have me shaking in me sea-boots!

Re:Lost Revenue on 20-yr Old Games

[NanoGator]

"Why would I buy newzeldatitle when I still haven't beat ZeldaII?"

Maybeifyoupracticedusingthespacebaralittlemoreof te nyou'dbeabletomastertheAandBbuttonswellenoughtobea tthegame.

Re:Do nentendo still sell the games?

[Dwedit]

Nentendo? Is that anything like Nintondo [orcon.net.nz]?

Re:Really?

[Meagermanx]

*Deletes NES rom collection*