Earlier this summer, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Jacob Mathias, otherwise known as the owner of LoveROMS and LoveRETRO, sites that notoriously hosted ROM files of retro Nintendo games. Immediately following the legal suit, both of the aforementioned domains were shut down to prevent further issue. Nintendo's legal action also had effects on other websites that had illegal content hosted on their servers, such as Emuparadise, which removed all download links shortly after the lawsuit was made public. Mathias and his wife, who were both charged on mass copyright infringement, plead guilty to the actions of trademark infringement and damages to Nintendo. They then entered settlement talks in order to find an agreeable amount of money to pay as reparations. Today, the final judgement for the case came in, showing that both Jacob Mathias and Nintendo had agreed for the former to pay $12,230,000 to the latter, over 12 million dollars.

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All copyrighted material owned by the couple must also be forfeited, and ownership of LoveROMs.com and LoveRETRO.co has been signed over to Nintendo of Japan.

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[pasc]

Kind of sucks to be hit in a scapegoat-esque manner like this...

think they would sell more games on their web service or on the eshop if they effectively got rid of every single roms site and sharing methods tomorrow? nope.

For that to happen they'd have to deliver quality content...
Something that - since the DS ceased to be - hasn't been the case IMO.

 

[Sternosaur]

Feel like this was 100% a power move to scare others.

 

[QuazaRayy]

my favourite rom site shutdown. now i have to use [removed] that tries to give me viruses reee.

 

[ThoD]

my favourite rom site shutdown. now i have to use [removed].

Edit your post, it's against the rules to mention ROM/Warez sites...

 

[QuazaRayy]

Edit your post, it's against the rules to mention ROM/Warez sites...

done

 

[mezz0]

Dumpsites are way too public these days. I can't imagine why someone would run a 'semi' public setup like that. I remember about 25 years ago, you had 1 chance to upload a zero day release to a BBS, failing to do so would get your phone number blacklisted forever and ruin any chance you would get a leech account on that BBS.

Piracy is illegal; you're not supposed to be able to do it in plain sight and get away with it.
If you think otherwise, you're doing it wrong

 

[veenx0704]

12 millions...that is like a walking prison 24/7....

 

[Plasmaster09]

both sides are wrong.
nintendo has every right to uphold their copyright, even for their older games. this is so that said copyright never gets contested and they can sell said older games if they ever bring back Virtual Console and the like.
however, this is too damn much.

 

[kublai]

Let's protest Nintendo. Retrogamer's lives matter too!!!!

 

[Phenj]

"How dare you bro it's their property it's called copyright i can't wait to buy retrogames for 60$ at my 34th birthday!!"

 

[LingFox]

"How dare you bro it's their property it's called copyright i can't wait to buy retrogames for 60$ at my 34th birthday!!"

You forgot to add drift issue and their proprietary emulators not working half the time

edit: Damn, I can't remove my own posts. Sorry for necroing, I didn't check the date.

 

[Phenj]

You forgot to add drift issue and their proprietary emulators not working half the time

oh damn, I can't remove my own posts. Sorry for necroing, I didn't check the date.

don't worry bud

 

[moronic]

wtfffff

 

[UnderJinx]

Happy that im pirating on my switch