Nintendo: File a piracy lawsuit against RomUniverse.com.

Η Nintendo sues its owner romUniverse.com for supposed piracy and making games available online.

ΤRomUniverse illegally traded titles for almost all Nintnendo consoles, including the Nintendo Switch, according to a company lawsuit filed Tuesday by Polygon.

The page seems to have a huge list of game ROMs, even containing titles for the original NES. With a payout of around € 30 (approximately), gamers had an unlimited number of file downloads from the page. Free users, on the other hand, have the option of three free downloads per week.

According to Nintendo, RomUniverse is guilty of piracy. "Hundreds of thousands of copies of Nintendo titles have been illegally downloaded from the site, including nearly 300.000 pirated titles for the Nintendo Switch and over 500.000 pirated titles for the Nintendo 3DS," the lawsuit alleges, citing RomUniverse's own statistics.

Last year, Nintendo sued an Arizona resident for pirate games on two websites, LoveROMs.com and LoveRETRO.co. The man and his wife later agreed to pay Nintendo $ 12 million for the breach.

Nintendo's recent lawsuit cites California resident Matthew Storman as the defendant and ten other "unknowns." He also mentions that in 2009 Storman told members of his page that he would start collecting pirated ROMs for Nintendo games.

"In 2018, at a time when Nintendo was successfully enforcing copyright measures against other illegal ROM sites, defendant Storman boasted that his site would continue to offer Nintendo ROMs," the lawsuit added. "After removing other illegal websites, page traffic (RomUniverse) increased".

Nintendo requires Storman and the other anonymous defendants to pay up to $ 150.000 for each pirate game and up to $ 2 million for each infringement contained in the Nintendo trademark. The company requires RomUniverse owners to withdraw all pirated games and transfer the site's domain to Nintendo.

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