Nintendo pursues another ROM site in Oblivion

Nintendo sued the RomUniverse website on Tuesday, seeking millions of dollars after accusing the site of "appalling and massive violation."

Sometimes, when Nintendo designates its lawyers on a site, this can be controversial because the targets are small farms run by fans hosting retro versions that could claim a better job of preserving the games than the big publishers, as was the case recently. year with EmuParadise.

And sometimes, as in the case of RomUniverse, a site simply lists the Nintendo Switch's roms directly.

As Polygon reports, not only does RomUniverse host pirated copies of current versions, but the site charges subscriptions at $ 30 for faster access to these files.

Nintendo claims "$ 150,000 per copyright infringement and up to $ 2 million per trademark violation." RomUniverse announces that it has 60 000 ROMs to download, which represents a considerable sum. lot.