Rome provider has to pay $ 2 million to Nintendo and destroy all ROMs

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Nintendo is famous-noticed for having no mercy with fan projects or illegal copies of its content. Who violates the copyright, is usually alleged by Nintendo in terms of land and forced to hiring all activities. Thus in this case: The Group has demonstrated that the operator of a page offering illegal ROMs does not only have to pay $ 2.1 million. He also has to destroy all unauthorized copies and is obliged to bring the site back.

Nintendo forces Rome providers by court to destroy all content

What is it about here? The legal dispute was already enclosed. Originally, Nintendo even wanted over $ 15 million in damages, but the operator of the ROM page was sentenced to 'only' to $ 2.1 million. Because he was unemployed, he should pay the sum in installments of 50 US dollars.

But apparently, the operator of this site has already paid the first rate with the illegally made copies and Nintendo gave to fear that the site could go online again. Therefore, a further time was negotiated in court and, in the result, a permanent omission judgment was pronounced.

What does that mean? This means that the operator of the ROM page has to be ready to explain until 20 August to destroy all unauthorized copies of Nintendo games, books and music. He is also prohibited to copy, distribute or sell or sell the Nintendo brands protected by copyright.

Thus, it should be prevented that the page with the many illegal Roms ever can go online again. If the accused does not explain that he agrees to the conditions, there are probably even higher penalties into the house (via VGC).

Larger problem: Game archiving. This judgment is not only hard for man who should now be busy the rest of his life with debt deposit. It also raises a light to a bigger problem that is likely to deal with us in the future: the preservation of digital games as a cultural asset.

It always happens that servers or stores are turned off and that older consoles and disks are no longer working. In this case, this happened illegally, but in many cases, such ROM archives could help to preserve the works of art and cultural assets.

More about this has written down colleague Erik in a detailed column:

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