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Nintendo, never afraid to go after the little guy, has sent a letter over the weekend to a Pokémon fan site, threatening them over their posting of pictures from the upcoming Pokémon Black & White.

Fan site PokéBeach, which obtained some copies of the game on September 17, was sent a letter on September 18 by Nintendo's lawyers, the highlight of which follows:

We recently learned that you have posted screenshots and other protected content from the Pokémon Black and Pokémon White games to your website at http://pokebeach.com. While Nintendo appreciates your interest in and support of the Pokémon game series, your publication of this content infringes Nintendo's copyrights in violation of federal law. Your activity also and has the potential to cause substantial damage to Nintendo, and leaves Nintendo with no choice but to take steps to protect its intellectual property rights.
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The site was forced to remove "all graphics, screenshots, and other protected content taken from the Pokémon Black and Pokémon White games", or under the Digital Milennium Copyright Act Nintendo says it would be able to shut the site down.

Awfully heavy-handed for a bunch of screenshots, don't you think? I mean, it's Pokemon Black & White, you can't take three steps across a video game website without tripping over something to do with the game, whether they be screens, videos or even a list of all 156 of the game's new creatures.

We've contacted PokéBeach - who have since changed their name to PokerBeach - for more specifics, like when and how they obtained a copy, since that could very well be the reason behind Nintendo's actions. Likewise, Nintendo of America have been contacted for their side of the story.

UPDATE - Seems Nintendo sent the same letter to another fansite, Serebii, for the same reason.

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Damn, what was wrong with posting screen shots?
 
^^ There's free promotion and then there's publicizing private information/sources. Yes, Nintendo went a little overboard, but you still have to respect other people's property. You wouldn't want your work that you've spent millions of dollars and countless hours to be leaked now would you?
 
I don't see anything wrong with posting Screen shots since it is not like you can play a game from a screen shots. Plus, it is free publicity.
 
cqinzx said:
^^ There's free promotion and then there's publicizing private information/sources. Yes, Nintendo went a little overboard, but you still have to respect other people's property. You wouldn't want your work that you've spent millions of dollars and countless hours to be leaked now would you?
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Yeah, that is a good point. I wouldn't want that to happen to me.
 
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