Nintendo's own Public Relations (PR) department has issued today an email to several outlets and partners regarding a ruling from the French Supreme Court against the french hosting website 1fichier.com.

Within the contents of that email, Nintendo states that the French Supreme Court ruled in their favour on February 26th against 1fichier due to the website being known for hosting pirated content from Nintendo, holding 1fichier liable for failing to provide proper anti-piracy measures after Nintendo previously notified and demanded DSTORAGE, the operators behind 1fichier, to take the pirated content down.

Additionally, 1fichier (and any other French or European hosting website) should remove or block access to illegal content, and if the provider fails to do so, the hoster will be held liable to pay compensation to the right holders from whose copyright has been infringed, closing with the statement that "sharehosting providers like 1fichier are not a safe heaven for storing and sharing illegal content".

Here's the full email's transcript for reference:

FRENCH SUPREME COURT RULES FOR NINTENDO AGAINST HOSTING OF ILLEGAL CONTENT ON MAJOR FRENCH SHAREHOSTER

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Supreme Court puts an end to 1fichier's long history of non-compliance and confirms standards for legal sharehosting in France

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March 4th, 2025 In a decision dated February 26th, 2025, and in accordance with the decision of the Paris Court of Appeals dated April 12th, 2023, the highest French judiciary Court repeats it: DSTORAGE SAS, operating the "1fichier.com" website, is liable for failing to remove or block access to unauthorised copies of Nintendo games stored on this platform, despite notifications from Nintendo demanding DSTORAGE to take down pirate content.

The decision is final and puts an end to a long lawsuit. Sharehosting services on French soil and in Europe, such as 1fichier.com, must promptly remove or block access to illegal content and, failing that, are liable to pay compensation to those rights holders whose intellectual property rights are infringed.

Nintendo is pleased with the Court's finding of liability against DSTORAGE and believes that it is significant not only for Nintendo, but for the entire games industry. It will prevent sharehosters like 1fichier.com from claiming like it did during the proceedings on the merits that a prior decision from a court is needed before pirated content must be taken down, and it confirms the rights that holders have to give notice of when claiming that notified content infringes copyright or trademark rights.

Together with its recent decision of January 15th, 2025, confirming that a major French Bank had rightfully terminated a payment processing agreement with 1fichier.com due to lacking anti-piracy measures, the French Supreme Court leaves no doubt that sharehosting providers like 1fichier.com are not a safe haven for storing and sharing illegal content.

Nintendo promotes and fosters development and creativity, and strongly supports developers who legitimately create new and innovative software. Nintendo's message to consumers is not to download pirate copies of Nintendo games as this increases the risk that this will interfere with the functionality and experience that playing legitimate Nintendo games on authentic Nintendo hardware provides.

 

[DJPlace]

nintendo needs there nut sacks hanged on the BALL washers for a bit. just image if Disney Buy's Nintendo the WORLD would be FUCKED out of video games for good.

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

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Whilst I can agree with some of these.... There are some that are just super random nitpicks or kinda obvious why they did it.

 

[Topaz95]

What else is new...

 

[munnimann]

That's okay, people here told me that homebrew and emulation are for playing private dumps only and not for piracy, so they wouldn't use this site anyway.

 

[Bladexdsl]

another bribed judge

 

[CoolMe]

Steps to put roms in ifichier.

1- Rename your folder romset with any shitty name like this "ponnypoopnentendo" and compress it (zip, rar etc) and put super long password in the compress file.

2- Use Hacha to split the archive compress to avoid the nintendo system detection in ifichier. Yep Hacha have a weird filesystem to create splitting archives.

3- Profit

So its pointless ifichier trying to comply with nintendo because anyone can upload it using this tactic.

Unless ifichier comply to ban any Hacha file...

Too much work on their part. The same files gonna either be re-uploaded on 1Fichier (unless they step in) or any other file hoster again and again with little change to the naming or the compression..

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nintendo needs there nut sacks hanged on the BALL washers for a bit. just image if Disney Buy's Nintendo the WORLD would be FUCKED out of video games for good.

Then they'd be cursed to make one live-action woke movie after another of their beloved franchises forever!

 

[ViTaLC0D3R]

Fuck

 

[Sicklyboy]

Constants in the universe:

- Death
- Taxes
- Direct download sites getting clapped for being direct download sites

 

[Retrojunkies]

Nintendo suing every cunt they can seek, as a public hosting service they're not going to be able to monitor every single file uploaded, even if renamed ect to avoid detection.

Though I guess nintendo fail to grasp the dmca takedown they're so good as using to flag said content to them.

But this company can't make consoles, cant make games and cant ensure its own recycled shit isn't getting sent to leaders way before its release date.

Nintendo should just focus on making new consoles and actual games.

Though it probably makes more in suing cunts

 

[JaNDeRPeiCH]

@CoolMe

The funny thing its not the compression. Hacha.exe have a weird system to create splitting files and thats very difficult to see if the upload its a rom or document.

It doesnt matter if the ifichier have HASH5 file to compare the upload from any backup nintendo in their servers. The hacha file it doesnt have a file extension and the worst part the file its splitting in many archives.

To open any hacha file you need all the splitting archives and decompile (using hacha. exe) it to make the original zip file romset.

For example poopnentendo. zip it have size 8 gb, with hacha can split in many files from 1 gb or two 4 gb

Good luck ifichier trying to know it the files are nintendo roms.

 

[ZeroT21]

Nintendo is failing to deliver a better experience than what the emulation scene is currently offering, so they're doing what they can to stay relevant

 

[RedBlueGreen]

Piracy is wrong





















I think-

Piracy is morally correct if the content you wish to purchase is no longer for sale or it runs better on an emulator than the hardware. (Technically the latter point is about emulation, but there's no simple, legal way to rip your own ROMs on modern consoles).

 

[fvig2001]

sad. I heard a lot of the rare and unpopular games are stored there. Annoyingly, it's blocked in my country since some people used it for hosting CP.

 

[chrisrlink]

I'll leave this here

go fuck yourself nintendo or in french..... va te faire foutre nintendo

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welp until WW3 i suppose russian file hosters are the way to go now

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btw last time I pay 1f for a year of unlimited downloads

 

[The Catboy]

As if the French language wasn’t bad enough

 

[kuro0628neko]

Oh no, I guess they'll have to pay a host in a different country and the EU loses all the server revenue. Anyway...

 

[Hayato213]

Not like 1fichier is cheap nowadays use to be like 20 euro a years now it is 60 euros a year.

 

[thesjaakspoiler]

Well, up to 2fichier then ....

 

[Nincompoopdo]

I always wondered - when files were removed from all other sites, 1fichier still remained like forever. I guess Nintendo realizes that too.

At the end of the console's life, when Nintendo is not making enough money - they will do shit like this.

 

[Ghost]

Remember pirating Nintendo games is morally right