[loa_in_]

This might be the earliest case of corporations abusing (electronic) copyright laws to influence competition I know of. Clearly, there is no real basis to claim that a memory poker infringes Nintendo's copyright, but Nintendo successfully lobbied against it anyway.

[schoen]

Not successfully at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Galoob_Toys,_Inc._v._Nin....

(Perhaps successfully later on with the DMCA.)

[zinekeller]

Yikes, broken link. This one should be fixed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Galoob_Toys,_Inc._v._Nin...

(Hint: if the last character is not alphanumeric, put a # (a blank URL fragment) to work around HN's autodetection of punctuation)

(Edit: I don't recommend percent-encoding URLs, mainly because certain web servers react differently to percent-encoded URL, like https://www.google.com/search?q=world+dog and https://www.google.com/search?q=world%2bdog (first one is interpreted by Google search server as space, second one as a plus sign) while a blank URL fragment is guaranteed to be safe.)

[codetrotter]

> Hint: if the last character is not alphanumeric, put a # (a blank URL fragment) to work around HN's autodetection of punctuation

I usually use URL encoding (aka percent encoding) [0] in this case but that’s a pretty neat trick and certainly more convenient than for example pasting the URL into https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/ and pressing the encode button and copying the encoded URL.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding

[qu4z-2]

So, fun fact about percent-encoding: the space character can be percent encoded as %20 or +, and a literal plus must always be percent encoded as %2b. When you put plusses in Google Search those are actually pre-percent encoded spaces, which is why it treats them as spaces. Of course, if you chuck it into a percent encoding script again it treats them as literal spaces since presumably the input isn't already percent encoded (just as it'd encode the % in other encoded characters).

At least that's if I recall correctly and it wouldn't surprise me if other servers do handle things in zany ways.

[kmeisthax]

Actually successful later on with the DMCA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDY_Industries,_LLC_v._Blizzar....