- Nintendo America Charges Switch Piracy Website For Milllions Of Dollars Lawsuit
- Nintendo Sues Switch Piracy Website For Milllions Of Dollars
Nintendo of America has officially announced out a multi-million dollar lawsuit against ROMUniverse, a website that hosts and distributes illegal ROMs of Nintendo games.
Nintendo is suing ROMUniverse for USD150,000 per copyright infringement and USD2 million for each trademark infringement. Nintendo says ROMUniverse has been damaging to their business as illegal Nintendo Switch ROMs have been downloaded over 250,000 times on their website while Nintendo 3DS ROMs were downloaded over 50,000 times.
ROMUniverse even offers a USD30 membership tier that grants members access to higher download speeds, proving that it is a business making money off piracy at Nintendo’s expense.
The ROM site appears to list both new and old Nintendo games, as well as movies and books. Nintendo appears to be cracking down on piracy worldwide. This week, Nintendo won a United Kingdom high court case that will require five internet service providers Sky, BT, EE, Talktalk, and Virgin Media to “block” or “impede access” to four different websites that offered pirated Nintendo Switch games or information pertaining to the action, according to a Eurogamer report.
This decision will help protect the UK games industry and the more than 1,800 developers worldwide that create games for the Nintendo Switch platform, and who rely on legitimate sales of games for their livelihood and to keep bringing quality content to gamers,” a Nintendo representative told Eurogamer about the high court ruling.
