Pirate Ordered To Pay Nintendo $1.5 Million for Uploading ISO
Published by forahobby on Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Tagged: Gaming, Homebrew,
Nintendo recently sent out a press release boasting of their Australian court victory over a single man accused of pirating the New Super Mario Bros. game for Wii and uploading to bittorrent and other illegal download sites.
The Federal Court has ordered Queensland man James Burt to pay Nintendo $1.5 million in damages after he illegally copied and distributed a part of the Super Mario Bros. videogame for the Nintendo Wii console a week before its official release.
According to Mr Burt’s MySpace site, he is 24 years old and has worked as a manager at games retailer Electronics Boutique in a store in Brisbane since 2004.
Nintendo says it was able to “employ the use of sophisticated technological forensics” to catch the man, James Burt, who has been convicted of uploading the word’s first pirated copy of New Super Mario Bros. Wii onto the internet. Burt – a single man, not a company or group – now must pay the Japanese publisher and platform holder AUD$1.5 million (USD$1.3 million), “to compensate Nintendo for the loss of sales revenue caused by the individual’s actions.” Yes, he broke the law. And as a pirate, should be punished. But this is a game that’s sold over 10 million copies in just three months. Nothing like a little disproportionate punishment to maintain that lovable image, eh Nintendo?
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