Nintendo Petitions U.S. Trade Representative on Game Piracy

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 14, 2008 - 10:50am.

Redmond, Wash. - Japanese games maker Nintendo's U.S. unit on Thursday asked the U.S. Trade Representative to encourage the governments of China, Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Paraguay and Hong Kong to "take a more aggressive stance to combat piracy of Nintendo video games and systems."

Specifically, the company recommends stronger laws in all countries against the circumvention of technological security measures, as well as operations against both large-scale piracy and illegal uploading and downloading of Nintendo content.

"We estimate that in 2007, Nintendo, together with its publishers and developers, suffered nearly $975 million USD worldwide in lost sales as a result of piracy," said Jodi Daugherty, Nintendo of America's senior director of anti-piracy.

"Nintendo will continue to work with governments around the world to aggressively curtail this illegal activity."

 

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Jodi Daugherty, that

Jodi Daugherty, that executive assistant (yes. this high school graduate is not your typical Director as advertised) at Nintendo of America spends more time making sure her name appears on press releases than articulating a program that would work. It looks Nintendo of Japan has taken some steps to control the cost. It just took a decade for Nintendo of Japan to realize that Jodi Daugherty is a fraud.

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