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52-year-old 'Super Mario' supermarket in Costa Rica wins unlikely victory against the Nintendo lawyers: "He is Don Mario, he's my dad"

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨DdCno1@beehaw.org⁩ to ⁨gaming@beehaw.org⁩

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/52-year-old-super-mario-supermarket-in-costa-rica-wins-unlikely-victory-against-the-nintendo-lawyers-he-is-don-mario-hes-my-dad/#comment-jump

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  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For context: it’s somewhat common here in Latin America to name markets after the owner’s name; specially 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.

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  • stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • callouscomic@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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