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Nintendo says latest legal win against piracy "significant" for "entire games industry"


Nintendo has trumpeted its latest legal success in the company's ongoing fight against pirated games as "significant" n…

The Mario maker today confirmed it had won a final victory over French file-sharing company Dstorage, which operates the website 1fichier.com, following years of legal wrangling and repeated appeals. Nintendo's victory means European file-sharing companies must now remove illegal copies of games when asked to do so, or be held accountable and cough up potentially sizable fines as punishment. "Nintendo is pleased with the court's finding of liability against Dstorage," reads a statement from the Mario maker shared with Eurogamer this morning.

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