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Owner of ROM site represents himself in court, gets obliterated
He's now on the hook for $2.15 million.
Facing a multi-million dollar lawsuit from one of the biggest gaming companies in the world, plucky Los Angeles resident Matthew Storman decided it would be a good idea to represent himself. The results... were predictable.
Storman owned and operated a site called RomUniverse until summer 2020, when it was shut down following a lawsuit from Nintendo—which owned many of the ROMs being hosted—claiming mass copyright infringement. Storman wasn't just hosting the content, but directly profiting from it by offering premium memberships that allowed unlimited downloads (thanks, TorrentFreak).
Representing himself against these allegations, Storman argued that the site broke no laws and the case should be dismissed. He claimed that RomUniverse didn't offer pirated Nintendo games, and that he'd never uploaded ROMs himself. This argument was undercut by the fact that, in a previous deposition, Storman had admitted doing just that.
"Defendant filed a declaration in opposition to the Motion wherein he declares that he 'denies and disputes that he uploaded any files to said website and at no time did he verify the content of said ROM file', which is directly contradictory to his sworn deposition testimony wherein he testified that he uploaded the ROM files onto his website," wrote Judge Marshall, going on to call this claim a "sham affidavit."
This was a lot less than the $15 million Nintendo's solicitors had pushed for. The judge also stopped short of granting a permanent injunction against Storman (because he'd already shut down the site), and refused further sanctions Nintendo has asked for. But you wouldn't exactly call this a win for Storman, whose "only source of income at the time of his deposition was unemployment and food stamps."
Just like GW throwing WH/40k licence around - way too late for that, in current world of talentless bland banal shit boring products made by bored and mindnumb devs.Dark Horse Comics (Hellboy, Sin City, 300, Umbrella Academy, Usagi Yojimbo...) also enters video game business: https://venturebeat.com/2021/06/01/...-a-gaming-and-digital-entertainment-division/
Their internal studios will work with new and less known IPs, while they're tapping "top gaming studios" for making AAA titles with the big and well-known IPs.
Nintendo is the real loser here though, he has nothing to take.This guy is not very bright.
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/owner-of-rom-site-represents-himself-in-court-gets-obliterated/
Owner of ROM site represents himself in court, gets obliterated
He's now on the hook for $2.15 million.Facing a multi-million dollar lawsuit from one of the biggest gaming companies in the world, plucky Los Angeles resident Matthew Storman decided it would be a good idea to represent himself. The results... were predictable.
Storman owned and operated a site called RomUniverse until summer 2020, when it was shut down following a lawsuit from Nintendo—which owned many of the ROMs being hosted—claiming mass copyright infringement. Storman wasn't just hosting the content, but directly profiting from it by offering premium memberships that allowed unlimited downloads (thanks, TorrentFreak).Representing himself against these allegations, Storman argued that the site broke no laws and the case should be dismissed. He claimed that RomUniverse didn't offer pirated Nintendo games, and that he'd never uploaded ROMs himself. This argument was undercut by the fact that, in a previous deposition, Storman had admitted doing just that."Defendant filed a declaration in opposition to the Motion wherein he declares that he 'denies and disputes that he uploaded any files to said website and at no time did he verify the content of said ROM file', which is directly contradictory to his sworn deposition testimony wherein he testified that he uploaded the ROM files onto his website," wrote Judge Marshall, going on to call this claim a "sham affidavit."This was a lot less than the $15 million Nintendo's solicitors had pushed for. The judge also stopped short of granting a permanent injunction against Storman (because he'd already shut down the site), and refused further sanctions Nintendo has asked for. But you wouldn't exactly call this a win for Storman, whose "only source of income at the time of his deposition was unemployment and food stamps."