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Not successfully at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Galoob_Toys,_Inc._v._Nin... . (Perhaps successfully later on with the DMCA.)
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 htt…
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.