Pokémon Safari has been killed

froggy25

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http://pokemon-safari.com/

The biggest Spanish website has just shut down.
It seems Nintendo has closed this website because it was a Pokémon website, mostly.
Yeah, you haven't the rights to create a website to speak about Pokémon, because Pokémon is trademarked.

Yesterday, Nintendo España ask them to stop their Celebi distribution, too. So I don't know why they didn't ask to close their website in the same row.

I don't know. Nintendo and The Pokémon Company don't use Google ? Didn't they search "Pokémon" on google" ? There is a bunch of amator websites which fall under the same problem than Pokémon Safari, providing walkthrough, strategies and other stuff. So why ?

Have the other websites have to fear this decision ?

Sorry for my calamitous english =/
 
Perhaps because of the Celebi distribution, Nintendo noticed it. The other amateur websites don't give out event Pokemon, as far as I know. That, or perhaps Nintendo needs the website name freed up for some reason.
 
We distribute official events at our tournaments (Deoxys Gamestop, Darkrai Alamos, etc), and our tournaments are quite popular in France, so I'm nearly sure Nintendo France heared about them but they didn't do anything until now.

Maybe Nintedo España has an other policy about that =/
 
I suspect that Nintendo has a pokemon spinoff named Pokemon Safari (probably similar to the Mystery Dungeon series) in the works and are wanting to grab the domain name for said game.

I don't think Smogon has much to fear for this:
~ We don't use the word pokemon in our domain
~ US law has fair use exemptions which almost certainly aren't present in Spain.
~ We could always move to servers in Sweden...
 
there was something about this on serebii forums, too.
I doubt that it is somethimg to do with a domain name, as the name had already been taken, plus since it was spanish it probably would have been .es, as opposed to .uk/.com/.jp.,and also the fact that serebii hasnt gone down, yet it clearly uses the copyrighted japanese name for celebi as its domain name.
 
i read somewhere that it had gotten too big for Nintendo and they just had to shut it down because it became bigger than the official website. it was also featured in a lot articles ect.
 
Maybe Nintendo heard the talk about the Celibi event and did not want it to
A. Upset Americans
B. Blow the secret they are having a event (Yay free celibis)
C.Maybe they just felt like shutting down a major website
D. Maybe they were hacked?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Well whatever there reason they should be ashamed because many pokemon fans are deeply upset by this story.

For the record i found a celibi level ten in the GTS so i traded for it. I wonder how they got it. (However it was not in english but yet in Japanese so i was sad.
 
Lol, PokemonSafari is older than Smogon by 2 years.It's a shame, I had been there a few times.

I wonder if they'll try sueing more websites this year.
 
Age of Kings said:
Yeah, I believe a year back they sued a whole bunch of people who owned the domains for actual Pokemon, like "spearow.com", "zubat.com", etc.
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That's just silly, i mean the whole trademark thing probably there is something else to it (like using a bunch of official art). Serebii.net uses the Japanese name for a pokemon for example, and there's no way they don't know about their existence.

I bet it was the non-authorized events as well as some other stuff they were distributing.
 
:pirate:After all,they always look for money...(I think that's one of the reasons that the players itself make a metagame,and the company doesnt even provide one,but after alll its a personal opinion)
R.I.P PokemonSafari...I'm going to miss your emerald walktrough:pirate:
 
Yeah, I believe a year back they sued a whole bunch of people who owned the domains for actual Pokemon, like "spearow.com", "zubat.com", etc.
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This has been happening for a very long time. All the way back to 2001, a friend of mine who owned and used 'pikachus.net' was forced by Nintendo of America to release it.
 
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