Oh, your comparisons are just so brilliant. I have another comparison for this situation: It's like a pharma company suing a maker of a generic drug without patent of said company to save lives it in third world countries which are not rich enough to get the original medicine. How evil of the maker of the genric drug and how noble of the pharma company to stop that.

Super Mario World, Mario Kart, Super Mario Bros. 3 were all specifically named in the lawsuit.  Nintendo has made these available for purchase on multiple hardware iterations.  There is "zero" argument for these titles to be necessary to appear on a ROM site.

You pirates will justify yourselves to no end won't you.

Your comparison is saving lives from the evil company. (FYI, most of those generic drug makers are actually the company itself. They sell their big drugs to places for cheap and make their R&D money back by charging developed countries more)

You pirates are saving history by making sure that these precious video games don't disappear.

Good example: I start selling clothing apparel online with copywrited characters on it. That is what rom sites are doing. They are making a profit off of something that is not theirs to make a profit off of.

What is noble about pirating ROMs of Super Mario World, Mario Kart, Super Mario Bros 3, etc?  These games are legally obtainable several different ways from Nintendo.

First emuparadise, and now this...

Well, getting ROMs of old games will get difficult.

haven't downloaded old gba and snes games in like 8 years so I just googled to see how hard it was to get them. Found a lot of stuff in like a minute lol 

ridiculous imo, almost all of them they never use in thier services no one else goes after retro titles like that, i hope nintendo are sued one day. if they got 12 million fine then that site must have been making lots of money though

I ignored your post because you're purposefully exaggerating in order to make an argument.  You want to have a discussion about what actually happened?  Don't exaggerate and then act like people are avoiding the point.

We aren't talking about stealing and selling cars.  If they did that, they'd be in jail on criminal charges, not in a civil lawsuit.

We aren't talking about robbing banks.  If they did that, they'd be in jail on a long list of criminal charges and likely incarcerated for a very long time.

As far as your point, I see no problem with questioning the severity of any repercussions and whether or not they fit the crime.  

Most likely a deterent to others vs actually getting money. Guessing the couple will pay like 6 figures and file bankruptcy.

I mean think of back when Napster was a thing. Some girl got like sued for like 1,000 a song or something ridiculous and she had like 100,000 songs downloaded.  Obviosly she didn't pay out 100 million dollars.

The point is, to scare away others from doing the same.

I have always hated copyright laws. When is the government going to step up and make copyright laws similar to patent laws which expire after a few years. No one should get in trouble for enjoying and sharing 20 year old products as long as they are not making a profit out of it.