Nintendo wins piracy lawsuit against file-sharing site

Nintendo has won its ineligible conflict against Dstorage, the French institution it accused of hosting pirated games connected its file-sharing tract 1fichier.com. In a property merchandise sent to outlets similar Eurogamer and GBATemp, Nintendo says a French Court agreed that 1fichier.com is “liable for failing to region oregon artifact entree to unauthorised copies of Nintendo games stored connected this platform.”

In 2021, a Paris tribunal ordered Dstorage to pay Nintendo $1.13 million for failing to region pirated games contempt warnings from Nintendo. Though Dstorage appealed this decision, the tribunal yet sided with Nintendo. The institution aboriginal brought the lawsuit earlier the highest French judiciary court, which has present ruled against Dstorage arsenic well.

“Nintendo is pleased with the Court’s uncovering of liability against DSTORAGE and believes that it is important not lone for Nintendo, but for the full games industry,” Nintendo said successful its property release. It adds that the determination “will forestall sharehosters similar 1fichier.com” from claiming they request a tribunal bid to travel done connected requests to region copyrighted content.

Nintendo has lone stepped up its ineligible fights implicit the past year. In 2024, the company sued Yuzu, the developers down a Nintendo Switch emulator, resulting successful it shutting down completely, and besides went aft the Switch emulator Ryujinx. It besides sued the developers of Palworld for allegedly infringing connected its patents.