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Nintendo and piracy have starred these days in a fierce fight that has monopolized the spotlight of various media in this regard. It is true that the company He has always had a strong hand against this type of situationand it is not for less since it has a direct impact on your income.
It turns out that the pirate website, called Dstorage, has lost the legal battle against the video game giantand will have to pay you a total of €442,750 to Nintendo as a concept of compensation for not having taken blocking and elimination measures against pirated copies of the Japanese company’s video games.
Nintendo and piracy cross paths in the judicial arena once again
Everyone has their opinions on piracy, but the truth is that in this case Nintendo has looked after its assets and its licenses above anything else, and they have every right in the world to do so. As reported by the VGC portal, this website has been hosting pirated Nintendo games for years without involving any penalty.
The decision of the judicial court has meant that Nintendo is satisfied with the resolution, which, in any case, can still be appealed by Dstorage admins. Being a page within French legislation, they have to adapt to it and comply with current regulations:
Shared hosting services like Dstorage (1file) are responsible under French law and must remove or block access to such content and may be required to pay compensation to rights holders whose intellectual property rights have been infringed.”
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This decision entails not only a big step against piracy by Nintendoif not that it has become a standard that will surely have a high impact on the rest of the video game industry that has always been linked to the world of piracy, either for economic reasons or simply with other types of intentions, even less legal.