Nintendo Doesn't Want DSi Associated With Porn

[ANImaniac89]

In one of the pics name "Pokemon" is visible.
overall I don't see these as being that bad, in fact they are kind of tame, so tame in fact that these could be shown in Playboy with no problem.
Now I'm not that big of a porn fan but during my time in internetland I have seen some freaky ass stuff and the Wii-mote is neither innocent nor hiding the fact that its a Nintendo product(along with probably being rendered useless afterwards).

 

[Flying-Emu]

You can't fight rule 34. I wish you could, but it's not gonna happen.

Here's the thing though, I break rule 34. There is no porn of me on the internet. I also break Rule 35, because NO ONE wants to make porn of me.

I politely disagree.

 

[Olrod]

I don't see any problem with asking a porn artist to remove references to Nintendo in the hidden text/visible text/meta tags and/or title and/or links of their images.

It's only the references being removed, so people searching for Nintendo products don't get redirected to something they were almost definitely NOT searching for.

Really, who would put "Nintendo DSi" into Google in the hopes of explicitly finding porn?

 

[lacktheknack]

You can't fight rule 34. I wish you could, but it's not gonna happen.

Here's the thing though, I break rule 34. There is no porn of me on the internet. I also break Rule 35, because NO ONE wants to make porn of me.

I politely disagree.

Oh... God.

 

[Callate]

Big N, you made a web browser available on the DSi. Someone is using it for porn.

I kind of sympathize with their desire to maintain a family-friendly image, but this is the same kind of nonsense that led to the Mortal Kombat debacle. At some point, a company has to have some faith that a) people know what they want and b) if the company themselves doesn't produce "questionable" content, the vast majority of people aren't going to take some minor tangential link to mean the company endorses that kind of content.

 

[Gigano]

It's their brand name, they have every right to choose which other commercial projects it is connected to.

Had it been a private site where a private citizen for some asinine reason posted naked pictures of himself/herself holding a DSi, then they would not have been in the right (probably not legally either) to require its removal, but "porn shoot" seems to be commercial - either to sell the pictures, gain ad revenue etc. - and thus a misuse of goodwill.

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Am I wrong? Should it be up to people's parents to keep their kids away from porn when they're searching for information about kid-friendly handhelds? Porn has a way of making it to the top of many internet searches, and I think it's reasonable for Nintendo to want to keep "Nintendo DSi" safe for work.
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Quite in the wrong as I see it, this should be a commercial matter concerning misuse of goodwill, not some moral panic about a brand also used by kids being linked to sexuality. Every last thing in the world can be - and probably at some point has been - linked to sexuality, and there's nothing inherently wrong with that. Restrict access, not content.

Google image search etc. would probably filter out such images anyway, and responsible parents install content filters or don't let their children on the internet alone if the children are among the few internet users young and sensitive enough that naked women might scar them. Nintendo was in the right here, but not for puritanical reasons.

 

[hyperdrachen]

Good, assholes who try to capitalize off of popular tags to get people to look at thier unrelated content spend enough time mucking up youtube as is. It's too bad they didn't lose thier asses on a defament suit.

 

[snave]

Fair call. From my understanding, all they're doing is asking for the text removal so it doesn't show up in search engines. The images themselves are incidental.

 

[Steve the Pocket]

Well if Nintendo doesn't want to be associated with porn then they'd better start taking down all the rule 34 featuring their characters.

This is why this makes no sense to me. There's been porn of Nintendo characters all over the internet for years, and I've never heard about Nintendo trying to do anything about it. Surely that's way more likely to come up in any given Internet search than whatever this site is.

That, and aren't a lot of those sex games in Japan made for the DS? You know, the ones with the anime girls and you use the stylus to feel them up or whatever.

I am fearful to ask what rules 1-33, an 36-62 are.

There are various rules that people cooked up to fill slots 1-33 after the fact, since Rule 34 was actually the first one. (It was called "Rule 34" as a joke, to make it sound like it was part of some authoritative list.) Most of the lists out there are about as laughably padded as you'd expect. As for 36-62, I don't think they exist. I think 63 is supposed to be a play on the fact that it's "36" backwards.

 

[Dogstile]

I disapprove of any type of censorship, if only because I stumbled across porn early on and it really didn't bother me. I just clicked off and kept looking for what I was looking for.

I might be less freaked out by most things, but still, censorship. Eww

 

[Asehujiko]

I'm a bit suprised they choose to protest against posing with a nintendo DS when there's like a million videos of naked ladies playing Wii.

Sueing one person for the "damage" caused by millions(or their own incompetence) and using their status as a big company to leverage a "guilty" before the trial starts is easier then manning up and and sueing all those people for 1/1000000th each of what they made their sacrificial lamb pay.

 

[Therumancer]

I disagree with this in the strongest possible way.

My basic attitude is that there is no such thing as a "kid friendly" computer game system, nor should there ever be one. Indeed attempting to have such a label is asking for trouble when parents actually buy into it because they believe the hype.

As things stand now I feel there aren't enough intense, adult oriented experiences on game platforms. I also notice this backpedaling taking place in sync with a lot of censorship battles taking place all over the world. Rather than preparing for war to fight against such things, both ones that have passed, and are currently in the pipe/being fought, Nintendo is basically capitulating.

To be honest the DS/DSi has included some fairly mature games throughout it's history. We've seen games from Japan about feeling up girls with the sylus for example, and while it goes more in the direction of violence we've had games like "Dementium" and a couple of Atlus offerings that were pretty violent and/or involved themes that probably shouldn't be considered child friendly.

A site with a woman posing erotically with a DSi is no big deal, and I don't think Nintendo should be trying to divorce itself from this kind of thing, given the games that have already been produced for it's system. While a producer of a lot of kid-friendly fare, Nintendo has tended to see a multi-faceted game library for it's portables, which is probably why they have attracted such a large audience, including a hardcore gaming crowd.

Right now is a time when companies like Nintendo should be closing ranks with other game companies to throw some of these huge mountains of cash that they have been making from us against oppressive goverments. As many people will tell you, big companies with hundreds of millions or billions of dollars can be more powerful than national goverments in many cases, we're always complaining about how that works. Time for them to start flexing some of that muscle, both legally and illegally IMO, rather than chasing internet soft porn stars around. I bet Nintendo is really proud of this one, bully much?

 

[Dooly95]

I don't see any problem with asking a porn artist to remove references to Nintendo in the hidden text/visible text/meta tags and/or title and/or links of their images.

It's only the references being removed, so people searching for Nintendo products don't get redirected to something they were almost definitely NOT searching for.

Really, who would put "Nintendo DSi" into Google in the hopes of explicitly finding porn?

Dammit people. this.

The links of pictures are still up, she is still there, holding her blue DSi. There's just no tags that go along with it, but then again, if you are on that site, then there's a high chance you know what the blue plastic thing is without it being explicit.

All Nintendo did was to get her to remove the tags so that the link can't be found by searching "DSi". They're not asking her to take the pictures down and take them again with a PSP because all Nintendo products are wholesome.

Good for whoever the girl is; she's getting a fair bit of publicity because of this.