52-year-old 'Super Mario' supermarket in Costa Rica wins unlikely victory against the Nintendo lawyers: "He is Don Mario, he's my dad" (www.pcgamer.com)
from DdCno1@beehaw.org to gaming@beehaw.org on 30 Jan 13:30
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ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org on 30 Jan 13:37 next collapse

I note that Nintendo had the good sense not to come after Mangione for trademark infringement…

stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zip on 30 Jan 16:12 next collapse

I’m happy to see they won! It’s amazing how low Nintendo can go.

lvxferre@mander.xyz on 30 Jan 18:34 next collapse

For context, it’s somewhat common here in Latin America to name markets after the owner’s name; doubly so in smaller cities. (The city where this happened has 9k inhabitants)

It’s also common to name supermarkets “Super [something]”, to highlight that it sells general goods instead of just produce.

With that out of the way: seriously? Nintendo going after a mum-and-dad market in a small city in North America??? This only highlights that the current trademark and intellectual property laws across the world are toilet paper - they aren’t there to defend “healthy competition” or crap like that, but to ensure megacorps get their way. Screw this shit and screw Nintendo - might as well rename their company to Ninjigoku/任地獄, bloody hell.

callouscomic@lemm.ee on 31 Jan 22:10 collapse

Fuck Nintendo. Fuck corporations. Fuck capitalism. Fuck the elites.