Nintendo has successfully won a $2.1million lawsuit against Matthew Storman, the owner of illegal romsite ROMUniverse.Storman owned and operated the site which allowed users to download ROMs until last year when he closed it at the request of Nintendo.
TorrentFreak initially reported on the case over the weekend.Nintendo’s lawsuit claimed Storman had uploaded and distributed pirated Nintendo games and profited from the premium accounts he sold to users.Storman denied the claims, arguing that he had broken no laws, because he hadn’t uploaded ROM files himself.
A statement that clashed with Storman’s previous confession that he had indeed uploaded ROMs.Nintendo requested $15million in damages and a summary judgment against Storman.
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