Piracy gets serious, Nintendo settle outside of court

Monday, February 15th, 2010 at 2:05 pm

$1.6 Million was the settlement

Australian man James Burt has been stung for a whooping $1.6 Million dollars by Nintendo for being the first person to illegally distrobute the newest Mario game. Super Mario Wii pre-release version was available on the webfor download illegally from November 6th 2009. James Burt was found by a forensic investigator employed by Nintendo to be responsible for copying and uploading the game. As a result he was taken to court and fined $1.5million dollars and ordered to pay $100’000 in fees. The illegal copy was downloaded thousands of times before it got shut down and this marks a big victory in the land of piracy.

I’m not sure if James Burt has the money tucked away somewhere to pay the fine back but the average person would probably declare themselves bankrupt and Nintendo wouldn’t see a dollar. So is this really a victory, and possibly james could make some cash of his new found fame? Piracy is definitly wrong but maybe a more realistic fine or perhaps a punishment would of been better suited?

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