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Nintendo of America has filed a lawsuit against two sites that allow the download of retro games, LoveROMS.com and LoveRETO.co. Both sites are managed by Mathias Designs LLC and host thousands of games that can be downloaded in ROM (bundles of data containing the entire software) and run for free on PC, MacOS and Android through emulators . Among these are many Nintendo clbadics from NES to GameCube, on which the company still has full rights control.
Overall, the sites reach 17 million hits per month and according to Nintendo their titles have been illegally downloaded. two sources at least 60 million times. Nintendo declares what has been done by the hacking of Mathias Designs and seeks $ 150,000 compensation for each counterfeit product and $ 2 million for each counterfeit copyright. The total claim for damages, by one estimate, would exceed $ 100 million. In the meantime, one of the two sites is offline and the other Nintendo games have been eliminated.
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