New Super Mario Bros. Wii Pirated Copy Uploader Fined 1.3 Million USD

| Feb 09, 2010 | 2 comments

 

It'sa me Ma"aaarrr"io !!!

 According to Kotaku, a man in Australia was ordered to pay 1.3 Million USD by the courts for uploading the first pirated copy of New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Ouch.

Last November, Nintendo says it was able to “employ the use of sophisticated technological forensics” to catch the man, James Burt, who has been convicted of uploading the word’s first pirated copy of New Super Mario Bros. Wii onto the Internet .

Burt – a single man, not a company or group – now must pay the Japanese publisher and platform holder AUD$1.5 million (USD$1.3 million), “to compensate Nintendo for the loss of sales revenue caused by the individual’s actions.”

Image courtesy Hubpages most pirated games in 2009 article.

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DJ Brady has been in the industry for over 15 years. Due to being rather OCD about research into every nook and cranny of the latest tech, DJ is full of bizarre knowledge that may or may not be relevant to, well, anything. He has attended CES, E3 and GDC (upcoming) trade shows for years. Once upon a time he managed a local overseas importing video game shop, eventually a Gamestop, and at another time wrote for an insider trade magazine called "The VideoGame Advisor". You can contact him at Djbrady@mobilelocalsocial.com and on Twitter @ZenInsight (he comments here under this name too)
  • http://intensedebate.com/people/mobloso Travis Wright

    M"arrrrrr"io. Hil"aarrrrrrrrr"ious.

  • ZenInsight

    I tip my hat to you sir.