1,5 miljoen dollar boete voor uitlekken Mario game

Een Australische man moet een boete van 1,5 miljoen dollar betalen aan Nintendo voor het vroegtijdig uitlekken van het spel “New Super Mario Bros Wii”.

“A Queensland man will have to pay Nintendo $1.5 million in damages after illegally copying and uploading one of its recent games to the internet ahead of its release, the gaming giant says. Nintendo said the loss was caused when James Burt made New Super Mario Bros Wii available for illegal download a week ahead of its official Australian release in November of last year. Nintendo applied for and was granted a search order by the Federal Court, forcing Burt to disclose the whereabouts of all his computers, disks and electronic storage devices in November. He was also ordered to allow access, including passwords, to his social networking sites, email accounts and websites.”