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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."
The first point I made was simply to establish your lack of credibility. You placed "loosing" in quotes, meaning that you purposefully chose the incorrect spelling, and thus the incorrect meaning. The meaning of nintendo is not changed by the lack of capitalization. The meaning of loose vs lose is of considerable importance.
It is clear that if I had only made my second point, you would have had no response (instead of acknowledging your error, which you have yet to do). Instead, you turn this into a grammar war, which was not my intent.
Reread my post and get the message, which is that nintendo is correct in asserting that they have lost sales due to criminal activity. Try to stay on topic next time (just because no one else does doesn't mean you can't).