Nintendo files lawsuit against ROM Universe
Recently Polygon brought to the light that site ROM Universe is being sued by Nintendo of America for the pirated games present on it. The ROM site offers its 375000 clients over 60000 ROMs, movies, ebooks, free downloads and even a high speed download upgrade for 30 USD/year.
Nintendo is seeking damages in the amount of $150,000 for each copyright infringement, and up to $2 million for each trademark infringement. Nintendo says that the pirated games display “counterfeit copies of Nintendo’s trademarks” when the games are played, as well as infringing the copyright of the works themselves.
The company says in the lawsuit that RomUniverse is “among the most visited and notorious online hubs for pirated Nintendo video games,” with nearly 300,000 downloads for the offered Nintendo Switch games and “more than 500,000” downloads for Nintendo 3DS games.
Nintendo seems to be on a worldwide crusade to end the piracy of its games. You can read the lawsuit here. You can read Polygon's original article here.
