Austrailian Man Owes Nintendo $1.5 Million for Pirating
Posted by Adam Larck on 02.09.2010
Burt uploaded first pirated copy of New Super Mario Bros. Wii .
Nintendo revealed that they have settled with James Burt over pirating issues last November.
Burt, a native of Australia, was the first person to put New Super Mario Bros. Wii on the Internet to download. Nintendo caught him by employing "the use of sophisticated technological forensics."
So, how much does this one guy owe for doing this? $1.5 million Australian dollars. That translates to $1.3 million U.S. dollars. This is "to compensate Nintendo for the loss of sales revenue caused by the individual's actions." To put this into perspective, the game has sold over 10 million copies in three months.
So what do you think? Just punishment, or overkill?
If you go by retail price, that'd come down to about 26,000 copies, which is possible. To put all the blame on one person is overkill, though.
Posted By: Soy (Registered) on February 09, 2010 at 06:28 PM
He uploaded it..but he dint force anyone 2 dl it....
Those who downloaded it prolly wasn't going to pay for it anyway
Posted By: king koopa (Guest) on February 09, 2010 at 06:46 PM
Got what he deserved.
Posted By: Guinness (Registered) on February 09, 2010 at 06:57 PM
Just. Anyone who puts a game up for free download is robbing the company of a profit for that game. To put it bluntly, it you're stupid enough to put it up and get caught you get what you deserve.
Posted By: Guest#5974 (Guest) on February 09, 2010 at 07:19 PM
LMAO Bend over Burt. Nintendo is coming in with no Vaseline
Posted By: Guest#9739 (Guest) on February 09, 2010 at 07:48 PM
He knew what he was doing and as such, he got what was coming to him. It's not like a single musical track; we're talking a whole friggin' game!
Posted By: Mr. Ramon (Registered) on February 09, 2010 at 07:57 PM
busted
Posted By: MM (Guest) on February 09, 2010 at 11:16 PM
Anyone that thinks piracy hurts any industry (music, movies, games, etc.) is a fucking moron.
Posted By: Guest#0423 (Guest) on February 10, 2010 at 12:07 AM
Pathetic
Ruin a young man's ENTIRE life over a crappy videogame no one will care about in 5 years time.
I'm sick of these fucking companies calculating these supposed 'losses' when most of these people who downloaded the game would have never bought it in the first place.
You would think Nintendo would show some good will considering they've made a fortune in recent times with a gimmick system and the game in question selling 10 million copies despite being typical rehashed Mario shit that they slapped together in six months.
I'm not saying the guy did nothing wrong but handing out a $1,000000+ fine is NOT right, Nintendo better hope this guy doesn't get depressed and kill himself over it or they're really going to see a backlash.
Posted By: Guest#5243 (Guest) on February 10, 2010 at 01:47 AM
I agree 100% with Guest#5243. It's an excessive fine for someone that did not profit from the upload. If he was charging, then yes, but he didn't generate a dime off the piracy.
There should be some fine, $25,000 or something but over a million for a single guy, come on. They busted him because they could, why not go after all the downloaders too? Because they can't trace that...yet.
Posted By: Wii60 (Guest) on February 10, 2010 at 10:21 AM
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