Petteri Pyyny
19 Jun 2003 15:37
The High Court of Hong Kong decided that a Hong Kong-based mail order company Lik-Sang to stop immediately selling devices that could be used to make backups of Nintendo Game Boy's console games.
The devices and tools, called Flash Cards and Flash Linkers, were used, according to Nintendo, to copy the game ROM images to PC and distrubute the ROM files over the Net and copy them to blank game cartridges, therefor causing monetary damages to Nintendo (who, as all console manufacturers nowadays, gets a share of each game sold to its console platforms) and its game publisher partners.
Court awarded preliminary damages of HK$5 million to Nintendo. Lik-Sang also needs to pay Nintendo's legal bills. Lik-Sang dropped selling these devices in September 2002 when a lower court issued an injunction against the company.
Source: The Register/gi