Nintendo scored a C$12.8 million ($9.6 million) copyright infringement win recently, after a Canadian court backed the video games company against an online retailer in a precedential decision.
Go Cyber Shopping was ordered to pay the statutory maximum for infringement by Mr Justice Campbell in the Canadian Federal Court on March 1.
Nintendo filed its complaint in February last year, accusing Go Cyber of circumventing Nintendo’s technological protection measures (TPMs) and infringing copyright in certain works.
According to the video games company, Ontario-based Go Cyber has sold “game copiers” and “mod chips” since 2013.
Nintendo was awarded the maximum of C$20,000 for each of the 585 Nintendo video games in which the circumvention enabled access—this came to $11.7 million in total, in what the court said was a case of “high precedential value”.
Nintendo was also awarded punitive damages of $1 million, granted an injunction, and received an order for delivery of the infringing goods.

Source: WIPR