Six UK ISPs will be forced by the court to block the domains involved in the ROM portals. Nintendo Change, after another victory for Nintendo against sites that promote piracy of their products. Brand portals NSW2U e NSWROM are the main targets this time around.
With a decision that has been in effect since December 2 of this year, on the basis of a 1988 law, Nintendo demands that these domains be blocked from the following providers: BT, EE, Plusnet, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media. Apparently they are among the major ones operating in UK. A similar ruling applies to Spain, Portugal and Italy.
This way, anyone who uses any of these to access the internet will not be able to open the affected websites or download their content. In total, there are five accused domains, among which nsw2u.xyz, nsw2u.org, nsw2u.com, nsw2u.net e nswrom.com, which has retained several games from Nintendo and other companies, with a focus on Switch.
Supposedly, just host the ROM it may not be a direct crime, but Nintendo claims that these sites are profiting from the business, using advertisements on their sites, generated from every download. That is, clicks on games hosted there earn money directly to website owners.
In its lawsuit, the company also alleges that it went to great lengths to attempt to contact the administrators of the pages, but was unable to locate details of the communication. The content remains on the air and should not be removed however, especially since the jury’s decision says that the operation is totally illegal, in the sense of profit based on downloadable ROMs.
Nintendo continues to fight piracy
This isn’t the first, second or third time that Nintendo has made the news in its eternal battle against piracy. The company appears to be the only one of the “big three” like Sony and Microsoft to have had major legal issues with its games in recent years.
Just a few days ago, we reported that the Canadian hacker Gary Bowser, a member of the Team-Xecuter group, was supposed to pay Nintendo $ 10 million (BRL 56.3 million) for the sale of software used to unlock the Switch, after a lawsuit the company brought against Bowser and his group , separately.
However, Nintendo’s crusade against piracy sometimes takes a few unexpected victims along the way, recreating fans of classic games and other nonprofit projects that use or draw inspiration from its characters.
With information: TorrentFreak.
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