Pirate to pay Nintendo $1.5 million (AU)

Relating to compensation for the loss of sales revenue caused by distributing NSMB illegally.

Nintendo has announced the settlement of a Federal Court action against an individual in Australia for "illegally copying and uploading to the Internet the first game file of Nintendo's highly-anticipated video game, New Super Mario Bros. Wii for the Wii console".

The game file was first made available for illegal download worldwide on November 6, 2009, a week prior to its official release in Australia.

The legal proceeding resulted in a settlement in which the individual will pay to Nintendo the sum of $1.5 Million dollars (Australian) by way of damages to compensate Nintendo for the loss of sales revenue caused by the individual's actions.

Nintendo claims to have employed the use of "sophisticated technological forensics to identify the individual responsible for illegally copying the file and making it available for further distribution".

The platform holder says it will continue to pursue those who attempt to jeopardise the video game industry by using all means available to it under the law.