Despite $2.1M ruling, RomUniverse owner considers bringing back ROM site

Enlarge / RomUniverse has been down for months, but owner Matt Storman may be considering bringing it back despite a court judgment.

In May, a US District Court ordered former RomUniverse.com owner Matthew Storman to pay $2.1 million in damages to Nintendo for copyright and trademark infringement. Now, Nintendo is seeking an additional permanent injunction against Storman, who it says is considering bringing the ROM site back without "Nintendo content" and who has failed to make a $50-per-month payment toward those damages.

Storman-who said in court documents that his post-RomUniverse income was derived primarily from "unemployment and food stamps"-seems unlikely to ever pay even a small chunk of the $2.1 million judgment against him. Paying a token $50 a month, an amount Nintendo says Storman "proposed and agreed to," would mean that fully covering the damages would take Storman 3,500 years, and that's without accounting for interest.

Still, Nintendo is using the damages to its advantage, arguing that Storman's failure to make his first $50 monthly payment "demonstrates that Nintendo has no adequate remedy at law for Defendant's past or future infringement and underscores the need for a permanent injunction."

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