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.

 

[ChibiMofo]

Nintendo has better lawyers then games now.

If that is true, you should not be affected by this ruling whatsoever.

And even mediocre lawyers could win a slam-dunk case like this. I love 1fichier. And I love them because they give ZeroFcks™ when it comes to piracy. But that blatant disregard for the rule of law was eventually going to cost them. I'm frankly astonished it has taken this long, and that it only applies in France. Thank dog for 20TB hard drives; my ROM collections are complete. Thank you, 1fichier.

 

[Lodad]

1fichier was okay when it was the only way and you could reliably and safely pay for premium, but then they dropped safe payment methods and pretty much only offered crypto and bank wires (unless you wanted to give your info to even shadier websites to get a voucher key to redeem on 1fichier) and they jacked their prices up. Staff were also assholes to deal with.

If you didn't have premium you were locked to 1 download an hour whether or not that download actually succeeded and it pretty much required Jdownloader to have a chance of success. There's not much lost here aside from it being the base technical definition of enabling piracy with all the hoops to jump through.

 

[Marc_LFD]

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

Even the "Alvaro" files which had a password still retained the full filename.

 

[AlamosIT]

View attachment 489041

Needs to be updated

 

[chrisrlink]

2 wprds russian host the war is bad but putin did do pirates a favor

 

[Marc_LFD]

2 wprds russian host the war is bad but putin did do pirates a favor

What? Are you out of your meds?

 

[CobaltMN]

2 wprds russian host the war is bad but putin did do pirates a favor

Yeah, the solution to this problem can definitely be found somewhere. . .

That said if they really aren't providing a way for nintendo to request files be taken down, then this was a pretty open and shut case. TBH i am pretty sure it is only a matter of time before any DH site gets taken down.

 

[Flame]

If that is true, you should not be affected by this ruling whatsoever.

That sounds like a threat Mr. Nintendo

*deletes his rom collection*

I know...

 

[deSSy2724]

What? Are you out of your meds?

Ofc he is TOTALLY NOT (not sure if he knows more, if he did even more research)..... China and Russia host basically all pirated stuff that has ever appeared online since BBS/Usenet and older TPCC etc. days. Example, most say China still hosts dozens of very old stuf from the 80s, 90s somewhere on their servers (YES, TODAY TO THIS EXACT DAY, even those "lost" ones), basically 98%+ files if not all are NOT LOST. On the other hand, when it comes to "streaming", there is where Ukraine, Italy etc are the BEST for operating it, hosting and distributing it (selling). But Russia also pirated stuff but also one more bad stuff, most clueless dont think about..... most of their servers globally host the most amount of pedophile files (regardless of if Putins war is good or bad, who is on the right side of history and who is not).

Its all researched and confirmed, simple FACT. Also those who have been pirates for decades and those example who are in the pirate business "resseling legal TV streaming content" aka IPTV, know that 99% are resselers, different tiers of resselers (basically, the orginal owner/operator/recorder to put it simply sells to the first reseller, the 1st resseler sells to the 2nd resseler, 2nd to the 3rd etc.), you know the drill.

Everything I just wrote is 100% truth, dont be gaslighted.....

 

[AlexMCS]

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.

No man, F split files. Hate that release method.
A far simple method to avoid detection is simple XOR encryption couple with password protecting the files.
Actually, function based XOR encryption implemented similar to a one time key coding solves a ton of digital security issues.

 

[console]

Uploaders should need to change to make messy mix letters and numbers to fool company. Password protected are best defense to against company control like crack down. Make words like wild and messy make very harder to detect. Example like: o29cjhs1b97, etc on 7/rar/zip package. They can rename many dummy words like Bestbuy, Walmart, Newegg, Amazon, eBay, etc on 7/rar/zip package. if they like to. Can someone collect huge of human waste and dump on Nintendo? Someone will do it for Nintendo.

Double thumb down to Nintendo.

 

[MasterJ360]

Man... even as a free user 1flincher was very useful for single full content downloads. It was usually my backup option when zippyshare or mediafire links were down. I guess Zippy foresaw this chaos coming and decided to shutdown. I'm sure there were other reasons, but still they dodged the Nintendo bullet.

 

[omega59]

good riddance the service has gone to shit anyways.

 

[BlusterBong]

Uploaders should need to change to make messy mix letters and numbers to fool company. Password protected are best defense to against company control like crack down. Make words like wild and messy make very harder to detect. Example like: o29cjhs1b97, etc on 7/rar/zip package. They can rename many dummy words like Bestbuy, Walmart, Newegg, Amazon, eBay, etc on 7/rar/zip package. if they like to. Can someone collect huge of human waste and dump on Nintendo? Someone will do it for Nintendo.

Double thumb down to Nintendo.

they can still use the metadata, hashes, ect to detect it though, all they need is a bunch of known hashes for the ROMs (if onlt there were two major collectives that happen to collect hashes for game ROMs) and it doesn't matter what form of compression (and the companies you store your files to can just give the passwords to Nintendo or other companies that do a crackdown so it's even easier)

No man, F split files. Hate that release method.
A far simple method to avoid detection is simple XOR encryption couple with password protecting the files.
Actually, function based XOR encryption implemented similar to a one time key coding solves a ton of digital security issues.

Hey google, what's the XOR Cypher? all you're doing is adding 0.00001% more effort into detecting, the easiest way is to not fucking make it public to everyone.

 

[BaamAlex]

The good thing is, 1fichier isn't the only "good" hoster for sharing piracy content.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Woah holy shit. 1filchier has lightning fast downloads for... ahem.... certain hosted Nintendo content.

Not that I would know that personally of course. A friend told me

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

They are the slowest shittiest file host ever. Good riddance.
I don't even know why people use them. What decent file host still has wait times between downloads these days? It feels like I'm back in the early 00s trying to use Rapidshare every time I'm forced to use 1fichier.

 

[AlexMCS]

Hey google, what's the XOR Cypher? all you're doing is adding 0.00001% more effort into detecting, the easiest way is to not fucking make it public to everyone.

I guess you have no idea on what the "function-based" part means.
It's not a static key per byte, it changes according to a seed and the input function.
For long input sources it's uncrackable, period. You can't brute force it.
For short ones, you have to guess what the input was in the first place.

 

[BlusterBong]

I guess you have no idea on what the "function-based" part means.
It's not a static key per byte, it changes according to a seed and the input function.
For long input sources it's uncrackable, period. You can't brute force it.
For short ones, you have to guess what the input was in the first place.

then how do you avoid giving the "key" away?, because if the people who find the file that arn't the people you're protecting it from can't decrypt it and you don't even have any means of pointing them in the right direction, then the file is the digital equivelent to a paperweight that's even more useless than that, which defeats the purpose of even having the file up at all.

 

[hiroakihsu]

As they say, whenever the big companies close up a door, the hackers (or in this case the pirates) simply open up a window.

A new solution will always come...Piracy is like a hydra; you cut down one head, three others come back.

 

[AlexMCS]

then how do you avoid giving the "key" away?, because if the people who find the file that arn't the people you're protecting it from can't decrypt it and you don't even have any means of pointing them in the right direction, then the file is the digital equivelent to a paperweight that's even more useless than that, which defeats the purpose of even having the file up at all.

The same way any digital protection works: Using secure channels.
Most encryption is done by passing a symmetric key through a public asymmetric secure channel.

The "key" set that protects any console from being hacked wide open is smaller than my profile picture.

Also, the whole point is that there is not a "right" key when it comes to function-based XOR encryption, since you can turn a source file into practically anything just by altering the function, the source PRNG algo and the seed.

Just make the base function output a set result independent of the source input.

That's the beauty of encryption: The possibilities are endless.