A lawsuit against popular Nintendo ROM sites for openly providing pirated games

Nintendo has always protected its IP and now the company has filed a lawsuit against two ROM sites to openly provide pirated copies of its video games.

The ROM sites in question are LoveROMs and LoveRETRO.co. According to Nintendo, these two sites are "among the most open and well-known online hubs for pirated video games".

According to the lawsuit, these ROM sites reproduce a "staggering" amount of proprietary video games without the company's permission.

The defendants reproduce, redistribute, publicly perform and display a staggering number of unauthorized copies of Nintendo's video games, without Nintendo's permission.

In addition, the trial points out that both ROM sites are extremely popular with 17 million visitors each month Moreover, due to the illegal distribution of video games, the site has obtained "substantial gains poorly acquired" and has caused damage to the business, and the existence of these sites still threatens "irreparable harm".

to provide pirated copies of video games, ROM sites are also known to provide proprietary BIOS software for a number of consoles.

In addition, the company noted that site owners are not casual gamers and that they are quite sophisticated.

The defendants are not casual gamers, but rather sophisticated parties familiar with the intellectual property of Nintendo and more generally the video game industry. lawsuit filed, the company demands to remove two websites with $ 150,000 of damages for the Nintendo gambling violation and $ 2,000,000 for each copyright infringement.

Since the filing of the complaint, LoveRETRO has been removed and LoveROMs has removed Regarding Nintendo, it's no secret that its latest hybrid console, Switch, has been compromised with a number of hacks Switch are now online due to the inherent flaw in the Nvidia Tegra chips used in Switch

However, it seems that Switch has been completely compromised, allowing the use of custom software and D & C Homebrew software on Switch.

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Source : TorrentFreak