So Nintendo is going after Newgrounds now.

[Gaia]

If anything, the flash game(s) in question most likely violated the terms-of-service and fair use policies and probably the policies were updated a bit to fish out shams, and some of them were re-uploaded again after it was taken down the first time. Asking for money just because one made a fangame about mario isin't the best idea in the world..

Plus this hasn't been the first time the gaming industry had made it's consumers upset. Capcom was on a roll with dissapointment-after-dissapointment, from the DLC shams to it's sudden mobile phone card game RPG craze (which costed BoF a decent sequel after so long), Sega losing sight on what it stood for, etc.