Nintendo wins legal case over ROM site, site owner ordered to pay $12 million in damages

CORE · Nov 14, 2018

@SG854 Dont Forget GC and Wii.

SG854 · Nov 14, 2018

CORE said:
@SG854 Dont Forget GC and Wii.

I don’t know if that site had them.

CORE · Nov 14, 2018

oh it did lol.

leyon533 · Nov 14, 2018

I think people are missing the fact that $12M damage isnt just for Nintendo...
The thing is majority of these games are from 3rd party companies and developers, meaning Nintendo will also be sharing that $12M to the related 3rd parties... the violator isnt only paying Ninty, he's paying every single active party thats related to the library he uploaded

Song of storms · Nov 14, 2018

DAE Nintendo bad. Like this post.

Demix · Nov 14, 2018

That guy can move to cananda or else where, the u.s court not gonna extract or force him to pay then

the_randomizer · Nov 14, 2018

Demix said:
That guy can move to cananda or else where, the u.s court not gonna extract or force him to pay then

Or Belize, there's no extradition treaty.

Kippykip · Nov 14, 2018

Lucifer666 said:
It's not like there's a legal way to pay Nintendo to play N64 games besides the limited selection of virtual console stuff. Pretty much all the retros are simply not profitable for them anymore because they don't even sell them (again, besides VC & stuff like that), so it honestly makes no sense for them to be bothered enough to ruin a man's life with debt he will most likely never pay off.

EDIT: Now I'm real curious, is there truly no way to anonymously register a domain and host a site?

I just did a few months ago, it's called offshore/anonymous hosting and is often paid in cryptocurrency.

supersonicwaffle · Nov 14, 2018

Silent_Gunner said:
https://www.escapistmagazine.com/ne...-Gabe-Newell-Says-Piracy-Is-a-Service-Problem

'Nuff said.

Thank you for sharing this. Service is exactly what piracy is about. I remember reading studies on piracy that I can't recall 100% but they came to very interesting conclusions.

people have an unconscious limit of money they're willing to spend on entertainment, they're not spending less even when pirating
because people who pirate will spend about the same as they would if they wouldn't pirate they end up investing more into things like hardware, going to movie theaters, going to concerts, etc.

From a content producer's point of view, a better service is exactly the right response to mitigate this as has been demonstrated by Netflix or Spotify. No one ever talks about how Kodi / XBMC + pirated content has been THE definitive solution for a home entertainment a few years ago. Or how iTunes + pirated MP3s was really good.
Asking people to use a worse experience with more effort involved like keeping a library of physical media, having to search through it by hand, inserting the media into a "player device", having to seek through a DVD to pick up where you left off watching on a different device and such for the sole reason of it being the proper and legal way is just unreasonable. I know plenty of people who downloaded pirated copies of content they already had just because they didn't want to go through the hassle of seeking out a DVD and putting it into a drive or even going through transcoding a DVD.

The gaming industry will sooner or later arrive at the same conclusion as there's no way to stop piracy of retro games. If Nintendo isn't willing to do that then that's their loss.

crookedcarsalesman · Nov 14, 2018

I can understand why Nintendo did what they did, but $12m?! Out of one dudes pocket?

EridiumMiner · Nov 14, 2018

I know Nintendo is "just" trying to protect their properties, but this is too much

TheDragonscion · Nov 14, 2018

It's probably a scare tactic to prevent others from doing the same thing. It is an insane amount though.

DJPlace · Nov 14, 2018

first nintendo boycotting rom sites and now sony acting like nintendo... and nintendo acting like sony.... WTF is going one here!?!

Slim45 · Nov 14, 2018

mustafag32g said:
fuk nintendo! Everybody pirate the hell out of their shitss

I may or may not pirate all of nintendos games from now on

TheTurkGamer · Nov 14, 2018

actually nintendo is probably cashgrabbing out of the lawsuits, also you can hate on nintendo but you cant hate on our god shigeru miyamoto (ok its not our god im just making a joke pls dont start hating)

Deleted member 377734 · Nov 14, 2018

Wow, i've neevr liked LOVEroms ( they gave me a virus when i tried to download Pokemon Silver 8 years ago )

But 12 Mil? That's insane. Thats more money than they prolly made with those actual games. Money greedy fugs want to milk them dry.

They'll be going after Pokecommunity next, or GBAhacks.

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Wow, i've never liked LOVEroms ( they gave me a virus when i tried to download Pokemon Silver 8 years ago )

But 12 Mil? That's insane. Thats more money than they prolly made with those actual games. Money greedy fugs want to milk them dry.

They'll be going after Pokecommunity next, or GBAhacks.

RPG_FAN128 · Nov 14, 2018

Moral of the story: Don't be illegal. Life is so simple really.

the_randomizer · Nov 14, 2018

Kippykip said:
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I just did a few months ago, it's called offshore/anonymous hosting and is often paid in cryptocurrency.

Who the hell is that in the Twitter pic? And I suppose that's one way to make things harder to trace.

RPG_FAN128 said:
Moral of the story: Don't be illegal. Life is so simple really.

Moral of the story is, don't be a brand loyalty shill, don't act like Nintendo is completely infallible and innocent, they've failed to deliver on adequate digital services.

tiamat999 · Nov 14, 2018

Fates-Blade-900 said:
For anyone interested I used this site to game, and it's good, supposedly the founder "Rents" games to people on the site, so he should be legal https://www.vizzed.com/
also the reason for the attack on LoveROMS may be because the NES and SNES classic edition is making sales, who knows, GBA may be next and they didn't want any site hosting the games. (If helpful please like ).

Eeeewwwww streaming singleplayer games get that shit outta here

Grand-Master · Nov 14, 2018

Nintendo is the worst shit! Of damn company that I will ever buy something from them... they fuck every good deed from them... Hail the fallen ones, we will remember you as heroes and not cowards as ninth... fuck them all!, from now own I am going to take everything free and not paid. Fucking damn losers!

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