RomUniverse.com Owner Ordered to Pay Nintendo $2.1 Million for Game Piracy
However, the owner of RomUniverse.com, Matthew Storman, plans on appealing the judge s ruling. By Michael Kan
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The owner of RomUniverse.com has been ordered to pay $2.1 million to Nintendo for pirating the company’s games.
The site was a destination to download free copies of Nintendo titles for consoles like the Switch and the original NES. But last week, a US district judge ordered the site’s owner, California resident Matthew Storman, to pay up for the piracy. TorrentFreak was first to report the news.
It was back in 2019 when Nintendo filed a lawsuit against RomUniverse. The Japanese gaming giant was seeking millions of dollars for copyright and trademark infringement from.
Bowser s Fury. (Nintendo)
Nintendo has won a lawsuit against pirate site ROMUniverse after the owner defended himself in court without a lawyer.
Nintendo filed the lawsuit back in 2019, alleging that ROMUniverse owner Matthew Storman uploaded and distributed pirated Nintendo games and profited from copyright infringement through paid subscriptions.
They’ve since won $2.1million in damages, as reported by
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Storman represented himself in court, claiming he was not breaking any laws and asking for the case to be dropped. He claimed that he had never uploaded any of the Nintendo games to the site himself.
However, it emerged that Storman had in fact previously admitted to uploading Nintendo games himself.