News Nintendo Files Lawsuit Over Leak of Company Secrets
posted by on February 8 at 14:35 PM
Earlier this month, Nintendo filed an incredibly vague lawsuit in King County Superior Court against 1-10 “John Does.” The court filing claims the unidentified defendants “misappropriat[ed] trade secrets,” but does not give any context about the information that was supposedly leaked. Nintendo also doesn’t appear to know the names of the people responsible for the alleged leak, and the suit does not specify whether the “Does” are Washington residents.
Nintendo would not comment on the suit, so it’s anyone’s guess what this is all about.
It could be related to massive problems with pirated games on the Nintendo DS, or it could just be a pre-emptive strike at folks who like to tip off game blogs.
I’ve got a few calls out to try and see what’s going on in Redmond.
How can they possibly sue a group of unidentified people for leaking unspecified trade secrets? It sounds about as effective as trying to sue "some bees" for pollinating some of your fruit trees wrong.
Jonah and I talked about this before he posted, and he's right, the text of the lawsuit is ridiculously vague. But whoever the defendants are, they must be doing something bad enough that a lawsuit is worth any potential bad PR. I don't think suing news-posting fanboys or small-time hacking hobbyists would be worth the backlash from Nintendo diehards. Keep at it, Jonah. If you need my help, I'll, uh, be playing Rez.
@1, once you file suit, you have the ability to subpoena people and/or depose them so you can figure out who the heck the John Does are. Not true with bees.
@1: That made me giggle.
I always lock the bees inside a cage and waterboard them - so far they've admitted they pulled off 9-11 and conspired to sell Honey to Iran for their nuclear buzz program.
Also allows you to file suit before the Statute of Limitations runs. Gets the ball rolling, and, as stated above, empowers the plaintiff by letting them use the power of the court to figure out what's going on.
It could be about the Donkey Kong kill screen. I bet they are headed to go talk to Steve Weibe right now!
Hey Nintendo had their one time lawyer Howard Lincoln take over the company.
It could be a leak of a developer kit or developer system. If an unknown person distributed Nintendo's closely-guarded (and pretty expensive) developer kits they would be sure to be royally pissed off.
Arn't their developer kits hardware based? I mean it's not like you can develop for the Wii or DS without a dedicated hardware kit?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8bitjoystick/71724660/
True, the hardware component would (probably) be difficult to hack, but there's an SDK portion as well.
@5 You just made me lmao. That was prety funny, but true. We all know it was the bee's and vampires!
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