Nintendo Complains About RomUniverse Owner Not Paying $50

In June of this year, we reported that Matthew Storman, the owner of the RomUniverse website, lost a lawsuit against Nintendo. The corporation sued him of downloading and distributing pirated versions of their games. The court accepted the accusation and sentenced Storman to pay 2.1 million dollars.

During the investigation, the defendant stated that he had no job and his only source of income was unemployment benefits and food ration cards. Before the shutdown, the website was only bringing him about $800 per month. However, Nintendo is already looking for a way to prevent Storman's court order from restarting RomUniverse. For now, the company's request was denied because it couldn't prove that the American's activities caused it irreparable harm. Besides, the website stopped working some time ago.

Nevertheless, lawyers of the Japanese corporation do not give up so easily. They stated that during the last conversation with Storman, the man did not deny that the return of the website is impossible. Nintendo's legal advisors, in a letter sent to the court, express concern that since the American didn't pay the first installment of $50 of the $2.1 million fine (and that's the monthly amount he himself proposed and agreed to), the threat of further financial consequences may not deter the man from further copyright infringement.

It's worth noting that if Storman had paid Nintendo $50 a month, he would have paid off his debt after 3,525 years.