Nintendo to US: Please tell other countries to stop pirating our stuff
Category: Wii, Posted: 02/14/2008 at 12:14PM CST by Brendon Lindsey, Editor-in-Chief
Today, Nintendo of America has asked the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to encourage governments around the world to take a more aggressive stance against the piracy of Nintendo's games and systems. They filed it under a "Special 301" process, which is when the U.S. Trade Representative solicits input from the public to find areas of concern.
Recently Nintendo has been working with governments to crack down on piracy (their stings in several countries are evident of that). According to Nintendo of America's senior director of anti-piracy, Jodi Daughtery, Big N estimates that "...in 2007, Nintendo, together with its publishers and developers, suffered nearly $975 million USD worldwide in lost sales as a result of piracy."
No word yet on what the Trade Representative will say in response to Nintendo, but I have a feeling that a huge international company asking the US government to officially step in on their behalf and help "encourage" laws about piracy with the rest of the world will be something they'll giggle and grin at doing.
Just call it a hunch.
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maybe they should make better games and ppl wouldnt turn to pirating them because they felt ripped off when buying past nintendo games.
If they manage to completely stop piracy, that guy loses his job, he is director of anti-piracy afterall.
keep piracy! then sue whoever pirates them for more money! jk
"maybe they should make better games and ppl wouldnt turn to pirating them because they felt ripped off when buying past nintendo games."
What? I don't remember Nintendo making a bad Wii game. Guess you just have bad or one-sided taste in games, or you mix up Nintendo with the third parties.