Nintendo's latest legal win against piracy "significant" for "the entire games industry"File-sharing site beaten after long-running battle.Image credit: Nintendo News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief Published on March 4, 2025 Nintendo has trumpeted its latest legal success in the company's ongoing fight against pirated games as "significant" not only for itself, "but for the entire games industry".The Mario maker today confirmed it had won a final victory over French file-sharing company Dstorage, which operates the website 1fichier.com, following years of legal wrangling and repeated appeals.Nintendo's victory means European file-sharing companies must now remove illegal copies of games when asked to do so, or be held accountable and cough up potentially sizable fines as punishment.In 2021, the Judicial Court of Paris ordered Dstorage pay Nintendo 935k (773k) in damages after it was found to be hosting pirate games. Dstorage launched an appeal, which then failed in 2023, and was ordered to pay Nintendo further costs. But the case didn't end there. Dstorage finally took the matter to the highest French judiciary court, where it argued that a specific court order was required before it needed to remove content from its hosting services. This bid has also now failed, ending the long-running matter for good."Nintendo is pleased with the court's finding of liability against Dstorage," reads a statement from the Mario maker shared with Eurogamer this morning. "Together with its recent decision of 15th January 2025, confirming that a major French Bank had rightfully terminated a payment processing agreement with 1fichier.com due to lacking anti-piracy measures, the French Supreme Court leaves no doubt that sharehosting providers like 1fichier.com are not a safe haven for storing and sharing illegal content."Nintendo promotes and fosters development and creativity, and strongly supports developers who legitimately create new and innovative software. Nintendo's message to consumers is not to download pirate copies of Nintendo games as this increases the risk that this will interfere with the functionality and experience that playing legitimate Nintendo games on authentic Nintendo hardware provides."Nintendo's campaign against game piracy has regularly hit the headlines over the past year, perhaps most notably with the shutdown of Switch emulator Yuzu - whose creator agreed to pay Nintendo $2.4m (1.89m). Last summer, Nintendo tracked down the moderator behind the infamous SwitchPirates reddit and claimed the individual ran "several pirate shops" that sold "massive libraries of pirated Nintendo Switch games". Nintendo is seeking damages in the millions of dollars.In November 2024, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against a streamer who regularly played pirated copies of Nintendo games ahead of release, including The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and Mario & Luigi: Brothership. The streamer had previously boasted he "could do all this all day" as he had "1000 burner accounts".