Nintendo Says Latest Legal Win Against Piracy 'Significant' For 'Entire Games Industry' (eurogamer.net) 22
Nintendo has trumpeted its latest legal success in the company's ongoing fight against pirated games as "significant" not only for itself, "but for the entire games industry." From a report: The Mario maker today confirmed it had won a final victory over French file-sharing company Dstorage, which operates the website 1fichier.com, following years of legal wrangling and repeated appeals. Nintendo's victory means European file-sharing companies must now remove illegal copies of games when asked to do so, or be held accountable and cough up potentially sizable fines as punishment.
In 2021, the Judicial Court of Paris ordered Dstorage pay Nintendo $1 million in damages after it was found to be hosting pirate games. Dstorage launched an appeal, which then failed in 2023, and was ordered to pay Nintendo further costs. But the case didn't end there. Dstorage finally took the matter to the highest French judiciary court, where it argued that a specific court order was required before it needed to remove content from its hosting services. This bid has also now failed, ending the long-running matter for good.
In 2021, the Judicial Court of Paris ordered Dstorage pay Nintendo $1 million in damages after it was found to be hosting pirate games. Dstorage launched an appeal, which then failed in 2023, and was ordered to pay Nintendo further costs. But the case didn't end there. Dstorage finally took the matter to the highest French judiciary court, where it argued that a specific court order was required before it needed to remove content from its hosting services. This bid has also now failed, ending the long-running matter for good.
Oh good! (Score:5, Funny)
So Nintendo's profits should surge now, from selling thousands more copies of NES cartridges and Wii discs, right?
And just think what this victory means for Intellivision!
Re:Oh good! (Score:4, Insightful)
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(I jest, but the sad thing is, if they actually DID start manufacturing the original SNES and some of the core "best of" cartridges, I'd probably buy it)
This is actually exactly why they don't do that, despite that it clearly would be popular; it would just cannibalize sales from their current product line. (Incidentally, access to "Super Mario World" and quite a respectable number of other titles from their past consoles as well as believe it or not also the Sega Genesis, are available complimentary on Switch with their Nintendo Switch Online service subscriptions.)
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Their subscription service includes roms of classic games, so these old games really are still for sale.
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That was often the fault of that stupid 10nes chip.
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*for rent
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The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
It's okay Nintendo, I will just never buy or use anything Nintendo ever again. Non-cooperation is the way of the ethical resistance.
So many have gone over to the dark side. :(
Hail Hydra! (Score:3)
Cut off one head, two more will take its place.
Prices will drop now right? (Score:2)
for the past 30 years (at least) piracy was the reason why we pay so much....
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No, the things costing so much is why there's piracy.
Hackers will hack the Switch 2 to spite Nintendo (Score:2)
Sounds meaningless to me (Score:2)
Well, they have to put on a brave face or they would have to admit that they essentially can do nothing. But hey, sellers of non-essential goods always have been dependent on the goodwill of their customers and they always will be.
Eyeroll. (Score:2)
Anybody who wants to download Ns IP has already got it.
Nintendo where can I just buy your roms? to use in (Score:4, Insightful)
Nintendo where can I just buy your roms? to use in what even EMU system that I want to?
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Sorry to be the one to tell you this, but you can't always get what you want. Other people have different ideas on how the world should work. They might even run a company in a way you don't like. Nintendo doesn't license ROMs for emulation but you can get the most popular classic games with Switch Online.
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you can't always get what you want
Yeah, but if you try, you can usually get it on the high seas.
As usual, the people who are punished most are the people who follow the rules the most.
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Which uses...an emulator...
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Same place you can buy a version of Microsoft Windows that has no licensing checks... nowhere.
Because they have chosen not to offer you that product. Doesn't mean that it's legal to just pirate their products anyway.
Finally.. (Score:3, Informative)
Congratulations Nintendo (Score:3)