Nintendo wins anti-piracy case against former owners of Lik-Sang

PALGN News | You remember that Bible story? Where David kicked Goliath? Well... don't listen to it.

Nintendo have taken it upon themselves to rid the world of the evil of piracy, starting with the most sensible place in the world - Hong Kong (of course) and the infamous purveyors of videogame paraphernalia; the irrepressible Lik-Sang, and their flash-linkers, devices capable of copying Game Boy Advance ROMs onto a blank cartridge - the handheld equivalent of burning an Xbox game onto DVD-R.

"Nintendo has the best developers in the world," Jodi Daugherty, director of anti-piracy for Nintendo of America said, following it up with "They have spent years developing unique and creative games. Their respective efforts deserve to be protected and respected, not stolen."

Judge Waung ordered an interim payment of HK$5 million (£400,000 or about 600,000 euros) to be paid to Nintendo and further told them to pay Nintendo's legal expenses. The amount of actual damages will be awarded at a later hearing. The basis of the court's ruling is a local copyright law.

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