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.

 

[xdarkx]

I wonder is this the end for that site for hosting roms.

Yes, yes it is the end. Just need to convince Nintendo that it is, so they don't need to spend any more effort to check.

 

[Viri]

I can understand the court's decision, because it actually is a great piracy site, lmao! But the other side of me is like, "Ah man! that site is great for downloading pirated games!". Also, Nintendo isn't going to win their war on piracy this way. lol

 

[ftjiso]

so much lawsuits, new censorship policy and them removing emulators before hearing more about the switch 2.

hoping that nintendo direct in april is gonna be huge

 

[IRUZZ]

Good, 1fichier is garbage anyway.

 

[Exnor]

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...

No need for hacha, a simple file split on a password protected compressed file and a random name will do .... That's how many pirated stuff is shared on Google drive. Well allegedly i mean.
I don't know nothing about that . I would never use such methods.

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[Vinnymac]

Surprised that pirates don’t stick to the tried and true methods for distributing content, centralized sources are dumb, period.

There is a reason the bay hosts torrents and that Usenet prevails. Hosting sites aren’t necessary these days, we would’ve been better off investing time in tech such as btsync. No one to DMCA when you can’t tell what’s being downloaded or who to blame.

 

[Dust2dust]

Surprised that pirates don’t stick to the tried and true methods for distributing content, centralized sources are dumb, period.

There is a reason the bay hosts torrents and that Usenet prevails. Hosting sites aren’t necessary these days, we would’ve been better off investing time in tech such as btsync. No one to DMCA when you can’t tell what’s being downloaded or who to blame.

Usenet was great, but Usenet service providers weren't above any DMCA takedown notice. I remember seeing a lot of uploads being systematically deleted from most providers, an example being most EA games for the GameCube a few years ago, especially scene releases with original filenames. They might have been re-uploaded since. Scrambled long-ass file names seemed safe, though.

 

[ZeroFX]

France, ofc the most cucked place of Europe would bent to Nintendo.

 

[Deleted member 737209]

It was good while it lasted. There are already other file hosting sites and there's nothing stopping startups based in countries which don't have or don't enforce copyright laws.

 

[Skelletonike]

It's stupid that people are only blaming Nintendo on this.
While emulation is a grey area, sharing recent "roms" is certainly illegal.

 

[notsu]

Is there a reason to use DDL and not torrents? Unless your ISP is a little snitch and you can't afford a VPN, I mean?

 

[tpax]

If you're buying Nintendo software in 2025, you've clearly lost control over your life.

Playing their games is okay tho.

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Is there a reason to use DDL and not torrents? Unless your ISP is a little snitch and you can't afford a VPN, I mean?

By downloading using a torrent, you're simultaneously uploading content, which will lead to you being sued at some point (at least if you live in Germany). You can use a VPN of course or something like a commercial seedbox, but DDL is just way simpler to use.

 

[HarveyHouston]

...And so it continues. What else is new?

 

[Ligeia]

Is there a reason to use DDL and not torrents? Unless your ISP is a little snitch and you can't afford a VPN, I mean?

Nowadays you need VPN to access most hosting sites anyway. In France at least.

 

[SDA]

Fuck Nintendo. And fuck the French Supreme Court also.

 

[Ritsuki]

Not really surprising, French law is really hard on piracy, I'm honestly surprised that they managed to stay open until now

 

[icegod]

Haven't pirated in a long time, but when I did, I mostly used 1Fichier. I do am shocked it took them this long.

 

[Marc_LFD]

Well, that's an obvious one, but 1File is/was superb.

Downloaded all the GCN/Wii roms I wanted, anyway.

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Not really surprising, French law is really hard on piracy, I'm honestly surprised that they managed to stay open until now

Just checked and still active

 

[LightBeam]

Good hoster but a lot of times, their links are dead, so I always thought that hosting there (with obvious filenames) would lead to a dead link. So calling 1fichier a "safe heaven" for piracy seems crazy to me

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

God damn it!