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Topic: Man to pay Nintendo $1.3 million for uploading NSMB Wii for illegal download

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Aviator

HOORAH! Kudos to Nintendo of AUS, we finally did something right!

QUEEN OF SASS

It's like, I just love a cowboy
You know
I'm just like, I just, I know, it's bad
But I'm just like
Can I just like, hang off the back of your horse
And can you go a little faster?!

Machu

Untitled

Serves him right, haha! Things are definitely changing in the world of torrents. Mininova is dead now, will Piratebay be next?

Rawr!

JayArr

Darn it Machu. I came in here to post that pic.

[insert 25 Cents here to play]

Machu

JayArr wrote:

Darn it Machu. I came in here to post that pic.

Untitled

Rawr!

Firkraag

i'm all for setting these pirates straight but 1.3million $ for a single person is just wrong. it's not a company who made money off that rip, he just took his game, made an image of it and sent it off into cyberspace. they sold what 10 million new super mario bros? we're talking pocket change for nintendo, and man's financial future destroyed for it. that is if he's actually expected to pay off any of it and it's not just setting a presedence for future cases.

There he goes, Firkraag. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. - My VGscore

PopeReal

Firkraag wrote:

i'm all for setting these pirates straight but 1.3million $ for a single person is just wrong. it's not a company who made money off that rip, he just took his game, made an image of it and sent it off into cyberspace. they sold what 10 million new super mario bros? we're talking pocket change for nintendo, and man's financial future destroyed for it. that is if he's actually expected to pay off any of it and it's not just setting a presedence for future cases.

The man gave away thousands of copies of the game for free, which he didn't own the right to.

Therefor Nintendo had to own him.

PopeReal

LzWinky

Firkraag wrote:

i'm all for setting these pirates straight but 1.3million $ for a single person is just wrong. it's not a company who made money off that rip, he just took his game, made an image of it and sent it off into cyberspace. they sold what 10 million new super mario bros? we're talking pocket change for nintendo, and man's financial future destroyed for it. that is if he's actually expected to pay off any of it and it's not just setting a presedence for future cases.

That's what he gets for pirating

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moomoo

That's why you don't want to be a pirate, kiddies.

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Aviator

YAR?

QUEEN OF SASS

It's like, I just love a cowboy
You know
I'm just like, I just, I know, it's bad
But I'm just like
Can I just like, hang off the back of your horse
And can you go a little faster?!

Raylax

Firkraag wrote:

i'm all for setting these pirates straight but 1.3million $ for a single person is just wrong. it's not a company who made money off that rip, he just took his game, made an image of it and sent it off into cyberspace. they sold what 10 million new super mario bros? we're talking pocket change for nintendo, and man's financial future destroyed for it. that is if he's actually expected to pay off any of it and it's not just setting a presedence for future cases.

And yet by doing so it makes others a hell of a lot less likely to try to pirate Nintendo games. Once you know that they're willing to sue a single person for that much, you're somewhat less inclined to do it yourself.
A 'no trespassing' sign will be ignored by some, but stick the head of the last guy who went through on a pole next to the sign, you're not gonna get any more trespassers. Sucks for the first guy, but hey, there was a sign.

Raylax

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Percentful

Firkraag wrote:

i'm all for setting these pirates straight but 1.3million $ for a single person is just wrong. it's not a company who made money off that rip, he just took his game, made an image of it and sent it off into cyberspace. they sold what 10 million new super mario bros? we're talking pocket change for nintendo, and man's financial future destroyed for it. that is if he's actually expected to pay off any of it and it's not just setting a presedence for future cases.

He allowed others around the world to pirate the game. We're not talking a few people. Besides, this is good because it will serve as a warning to other piraters! probably not, but I'd like to think so.

Just let it happen.

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Knux

LOL, justice has been served to the pirate!

Knux

jwl

Well, claiming they have lost thousands of sales is probably a bit of a stretch. A big percentage of those downloading probably won't have bought the game anyway. Still it is wrong and I don't feel at all sorry for the guy. But unless he is somewhat rich, Nintendo will probably not see any money from him.

SwerdMurd

I think that this kind of precedent is important to set. I feel Nintendo can set whatever compensation value they want, as there's no realistic way to know how many sales were really lost. I'd much prefer this kind of anti-piracy tactic to that invasive DRM crap.

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Objection

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HiroshiYamauchi

The sad thing here is the guy is not a pro pirate, he's just someone who got the game sooner them everyone else and released it before the the Real pirates (you know who they are). Apparently, he was not aware of the rule #1: don't get caught (Dexter knows it). I'm pretty sure his act did no harm to NSMB Wii sales at all, but the law is the law...

HiroshiYamauchi

Noire

Ezekiel wrote:

quote from onslaught wiiware.

Quote from Nintendo Life thread 'Man to pay Nintendo $1.3 million for uploading NSMB Wii for illegal download'.

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