Man Fined $1.5 Million For Leaked Mario Game

An anonymous reader writes "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."

Comments

There's a leak?

[Anonymous Coward]

Quick, we need a plumber.

Re:There's a leak?

[anss123]

Quick, we need a plumber.

It has always amused me that the most popular video game character by far is a "fat Italian plumber" instead of mister "awesome cool superdude".

Re:There's a leak?

[RavenofNi]

Duke, for all his shining attributes, was not perfect; even he ran out of gum.

Re:Curious...

[Farmer Tim]

Australian game releases typically lag behind other regions.

Australia: kicked from the world for unacceptable latency.