In a decision dated February 26th, 2025, and in accordance with the decision of the Paris Court of Appeals dated April 12th, 2023, the highest French judiciary Court repeats it: DSTORAGE SAS, operating the “1fichier.com” website, is liable for failing to remove or block access to unauthorised copies of Nintendo games stored on this platform, despite notifications from Nintendo demanding DSTORAGE to take down pirate content.
The decision is final and puts an end to a long lawsuit. Sharehosting services on French soil and in Europe, such as 1fichier.com, must promptly remove or block access to illegal content and, failing that, are liable to pay compensation to those rights holders whose intellectual property rights are infringed.
Nintendo is pleased with the Court’s finding of liability against DSTORAGE and believes that it is significant not only for Nintendo, but for the entire games industry. It will prevent sharehosters like 1fichier.com from claiming like it did during the proceedings on the merits that a prior decision from a court is needed before pirated content must be taken down, and it confirms the rights that holders have to give notice of when claiming that notified content infringes copyright or trademark rights.
Together with its recent decision of January 15th, 2025, confirming that a major French Bank had rightfully terminated a payment processing agreement with 1fichier.com due to lacking anti-piracy measures, the French Supreme Court leaves no doubt that sharehosting providers like 1fichier.com are not a safe haven for storing and sharing illegal content.
Nintendo promotes and fosters development and creativity, and strongly supports developers who legitimately create new and innovative software. Nintendo’s message to consumers is not to download pirate copies of Nintendo games as this increases the risk that this will interfere with the functionality and experience that playing legitimate Nintendo games on authentic Nintendo hardware provides.
Source: Nintendo UK
And of course you’ll still have some who will defend these thieves and say that Nintendo is the bad guy…
In any case, this kind of judgment reassures me.
But pirates are the good guys because… large corporations… uh… laws… I want stuff without paying for it! /s
Funny thing is that as long as file sharing is still a legal gray zone; Piracy will never go away.
You can smack down file hosting sites but things like torrents will always bypass it (since its sharing between PCs and not hosted on a server/company site).
Great picture by the way.
soooo you guys gonna release hong kong 97 on Switch 2?
WHAT IM THINKING KILL A NUN
How might this French Supreme Court ruling influence other European countries to strengthen their policies against sharehosting platforms that fail to address pirated content?
The scoring system is super motivating. Close guesses give me just enough hope to try ‘one more round’.
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