DHS just summoned the Nintendo Ninjas

[Vixi]

The DHS released a tweet stating "Gotta Catch Em All" with a video of DHS agents abducting people to the Pokemon theme song.
https://fixupx.com/DHSgov/status/1970251208322621530

 

[DiscostewSM]

"Ohhhhh, you're my best friend"

They... do know know that is in reference to who they capture, right?

 

[Vixi]

It's a good thing Elon Musk slashed government spending so the taxpayer's money can be spent on important things like getting sued by Nintendo.

 

[MPRTwice]

The DHS released a tweet stating "Gotta Catch Em All" with a video of DHS agents abducting people to the Pokemon theme song.
https://fixupx.com/DHSgov/status/1970251208322621530

Follow the leader. I played the Billy Crawford version of the song at the point where it says,

"Every challenge along the way
With courage, I will face
I will battle every day
To claim my rightful place
Come with me, the time is right
There's no better team
Arm in arm, we'll win the fight
It's always been our dream"

at a huge mma gym as I picked apart a bag while wearing a plain dobok prior to this, as a signal to stop violence including at the UFC/WBA which took huge hits in sales after I near effortlessly defeated their best champions front of everyone, and their boss (The AWOL ROK soldier/KCIA member), who were made aware of my background in Tae-Kwon-Do over sport-kwon-do.

So I will say it again to my not-so-adoring followers/copycats:

"Imitate us, but you won't intimidate us
We keep 'em looking for another way to break us
Because we know if there's a will, there's a way back up"

 

[Dark_Ansem]

A game literally about a boy free to travel the world to pursue his dream, hijacked by these c***s

 

[Vixi]

A game literally about a boy free to travel the world to pursue his dream, hijacked by these c***s

Except when the border guards are thirsty.

Idiots are getting deported because they didn't bring a bottle of water.

 

[Hippocampus_Hamster]

Of course this stays up, while any video made by some teen in their basement that so much as hums half a second of the theme on their video in the background gets DMCA'd and C&D'd out of existence.

Wouldn't this be considered defamatory towards the IP? Even if you have permission, I would think Nintendo of all people wouldn't want their IP being associated with highly controversial police actions...

Defending your IP my ass.

continued incoherent grumblings

 

[BlazeHeatnix]

This is beyond tone-deaf.

If Nintendo doesn't openly condemn this, I am never purchasing anything from them again.

 

[ChronosNotashi]

This is beyond tone-deaf.

If Nintendo doesn't openly condemn this, I am never purchasing anything from them again.

Okay, 1) Do you ever buy anything from them anyway (anything that isn't pre-owned, that is)? These "I'm never purchasing anything from [insert company here] again" Mad Libs are dubious at best, because there's no confirmation the one using them even monetarily supported what they're opposing in the first place. And I'm referring to the general use of that Mad Libs, not Nintendo-targeted uses specifically.

2) Getting the contract details here and now: if Nintendo does decide to condemn this at some point, do you solemnly swear to NOT turn around and condemn Nintendo for exercising their legal right in this specific scenario? I know there are people who will still do the whole "Evil corpo Nintendo throwing their weight around" thing, even in this completely justifiable scenario.

 

[Viri]

It's a good thing Elon Musk slashed government spending so the taxpayer's money can be spent on important things like getting sued by Nintendo.

I'm pretty sure it's fair use, as it's a parody. Nintendo only goes after "small fries", not big things, like the US gov. Nintendo doesn't even go after Amazon, despite getting a Chinese console full of Nintendo roms is piss easy on Amazon.

BUT, I would love to see Nintendo go after the US gov, as it'd be funny as hell to watch. Nintendo's lawyers would panic if they tried, as it's get thrown out quite fast.

Spoiler

 

[BlazeHeatnix]

Okay, 1) Do you ever buy anything from them anyway (anything that isn't pre-owned, that is)? These "I'm never purchasing anything from [insert company here] again" Mad Libs are dubious at best, because there's no confirmation the one using them even monetarily supported what they're opposing in the first place. And I'm referring to the general use of that Mad Libs, not Nintendo-targeted uses specifically.

"Purchasing from Nintendo" goes beyond simply buying their games and systems. If you buy Nintendo merchandise, an online Switch subscription, visit their theme parks, hell, even buying third-party games on their platform funnels money into them. I was planning on buying the LEGO Game Boy, for example. Not gonna happen now.

2) Getting the contract details here and now: if Nintendo does decide to condemn this at some point, do you solemnly swear to NOT turn around and condemn Nintendo for exercising their legal right in this specific scenario? I know there are people who will still do the whole "Evil corpo Nintendo throwing their weight around" thing, even in this completely justifiable scenario.

I don't know what you're getting at here. Are you implying I should be ok with them throwing their weight around and exercising their legal right regardless of circumstance if I support them doing it here? If that's what you're getting at, does context matter to you? Most companies "exercise their legal right" on a case-by-case basis and it isn't a catch-all thing. You can allow people to make fangames and not sue people for piracy, and still condemn the US government using your IP to promote their violation of human rights.

 

[Viri]

"Ohhhhh, you're my best friend"

They... do know know that is in reference to who they capture, right?

Yes, it's well known that your "best friend" will forcefully capture you in a ball, and force you to fight other creatures. Michael Vick watched a lot of Pokemon probably.

 

[ChronosNotashi]

I don't know what you're getting at here. Are you implying I should be ok with them throwing their weight around and exercising their legal right regardless of circumstance if I support them doing it here? If that's what you're getting at, does context matter to you? Most companies "exercise their legal right" on a case-by-case basis and it isn't a catch-all thing. You can allow people to make fangames and not sue people for piracy, and still condemn the US government using your IP to promote their violation of human rights.

Look, I know of people, especially on this site, who would be quick to take a dump on Nintendo, regardless of the circumstance. Even in this one scenario, against a government branch that people have widely criticized and accused of overstepping boundaries and disregarding constitutional laws within the last year, there will be people who will claim that Nintendo is STILL the greater evil of the two - purely because they would be the ones filing the lawsuit for copyright infringement.

I just want to make sure that you won't be one of those people, and that you do have a solid idea of where Nintendo's actions would be justified, and aren't just saying it for internet points while planning to dump on them anyway if they do exactly what you claimed would be justified. (You know, like how some people were saying that Nintendo should go after PalWorld, only to turn around and condemn Nintendo when they did just that. Not saying everyone that condemned Nintendo were like that, but there are people that like to "play both sides"/"play both ends against the middle".)

 

[gamefan5]

Nintendo (or more precisely, the Pokémon Company) won't do anything.

They're smart and they are very publicity-sht. The further thing that they want is more attention.

When you are around Daddy Cheetos' hair or on his sight, there will always be business repercussions.

Heck, it wouldn't be too far-fetched to think that they could even ban Nintendo from the US market, if they consider the big N, a liability.

The only time I could see them take legal action, is when the Trump is out of his presidency.

 

[Vixi]

Apparently they have migrant employees so they want to stay out of Trump's crosshairs. But they may make a copyright complaint to twitter.

I'd be surprised if they did nothing to protect their brand association.

 

[BlusterBong]

Lol, aparently according to a former legal chief, TPC's american execs mostly consists of green card people so Trump would have an easy way to shut any lawsuit down by just firing employees who are green card holders

"I don't see them doing anything about this for a few reasons," McGowan started. "First, think of how little you see [The Pokémon Company International]'s name in the press. They are insanely publicity-shy and prefer to let the brand be the brand. Second, many of their execs in the USA are on green cards. Even if I was still at the company I wouldn't touch this, and I'm the most trigger-happy CLO [Chief Legal Officer] I've ever met. This will blow over in a couple of days and they'll be happy to let it."

 

[BlazeHeatnix]

So this is less "we're scared of taking a stance on an issue" and more "we're scared of getting deported".

 

[ChronosNotashi]

So this is less "we're scared of taking a stance on an issue" and more "we're scared of getting deported".

Potentially, yeah. In all honesty, it's something that The Pokemon Company could just DMCA away or beat in an open/shut case without issue normally. But as I suspected, the current political environment being the way it is means that any legal action could risk far more than some diehard Nintendo/TPC haters continuing to take a dump on them even in this scenario. It could result in the kind of bad publicity that can absolutely come back to bite them in the rear and trigger far-reaching consequences.

And just to be clear, this would affect The Pokemon Company, since Nintendo doesn't handle the anime portion of the franchise, much less localization in the U.S.