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I love Nintendo games. I HATE the company behind the games. And it's not like this is recent shit either. This goes all the way back to the 80s. They tried sueing Blockbuster for including game manuals with their rentals.
So if you remember blockbuster printing the important bits of the manual, like controls, on the plastic dust cover, that was their workaround to "including copyrighted documents".
And the only reason they sued for copyright infringement was because they tried to sue to end rentals completely, but blockbuster wasn't breaking any laws. So Nintendo tried doing whag cops do, and bust you for something smaller, just to get you into court. Then try'd try to wear you down with lawsuits by showing you had a history of law breaking.
Problem was, Nintendo just got a history of suing anyone and anything.
Alternate timeline there's a version of Nintendo who never sued anyone, but won THIS lawsuit, because they didn't have that history of wasting the courts time for decades.