Man Charged for Counterfeiting Nintendo

Published on 10-19-12 09:16 PM

Justin Success Brooks from the UK has made nearly $1 million from selling a variety of counterfeit Nintendo games. Since 2009, he’s made money in the business of selling counterfeit Wii, DS and DSi cartridgesa nd has raked in £600,000 or $962,000. Brooks must have been living well-off, but contrary to his middle name he won’t be so successful anymore. He’ll be stripped of his money and most likely sent to jail.

Brooks has already been charged with seven accounts of fraud, or “two counts of fraudulent trading, two counts of supplying an article to use in fraud, two counts of unauthorised possession of goods bearing a trademark and one count of unauthorised use of a trademark.” His sentence will be decided in court on November 9. Nintendo won’t be letting Brooks go easily since they’ve been cracking down on piracy lately, and making $1 million off of copies of their products doesn’t exactly get on their good side.

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22 Comments

Rekop - 10-19-12
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Sucks to be him.

MrMario - 10-19-12
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Tsk, tsk, tsk.

ExtraCorrupted - 10-19-12
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That's pretty despicable. How low class can a person's morals get?

bklynvicky - 10-19-12
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Wow good to know this ^^

InsomniacMan - 10-19-12
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Well sucks for him.

Sonicdiezx - 10-20-12
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Wow thats low.I'm a Sega fan and I feel bad for Nintendo but that probally happens or will happen to other companys D:

philip123145 - 10-20-12
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ugh people and there love for money -_-

OscarG - 10-20-12
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Well well, he had it coming. :P

badmanG - 10-20-12
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When I see people like this mess with my top gaming companies, only one thought comes to mind:

CATCH ALL THE PIRATES!!

StephF - 10-20-12
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What a disappointment.

:O

Silver137 - 10-20-12
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Lol, Nintendo's Gonna Make Sure He's Calling Someone "Daddy". You Can Bet On That, If I Lost $1 Million On Products Copyrighted Off Me, I'd Personally Kill The ••••••• Myself...

Marvelous - 10-20-12
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You k ow what they say... Every dog has his day.

mastershake888 - 10-21-12
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man this guy is a thomas edison to quote mary shelley's frankenhole. i mean first of all it most likely cost him more to make i counterfit item than he makes. also he was doomed anyway. i mean he had been doing this since 2009 he did it too long. they would have caught him pretty soon if they hadn't yet.

GentleFire - 10-21-12
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Wow. Had to be Nintendo huh?

Datleco - 10-21-12
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Originally Posted by Tetra

Justin Success Brooks from the UK has made nearly $1 million from selling a variety of counterfeit Nintendo games. Since 2009, he’s made money in the business of selling counterfeit Wii, DS and DSi cartridgesa nd has raked in £600,000 or $962,000. Brooks must have been living well-off, but contrary to his middle name he won’t be so successful anymore. He’ll be stripped of his money and most likely sent to jail.

Brooks has already been charged with seven accounts of fraud, or “two counts of fraudulent trading, two counts of supplying an article to use in fraud, two counts of unauthorised possession of goods bearing a trademark and one count of unauthorised use of a trademark.” His sentence will be decided in court on November 9. Nintendo won’t be letting Brooks go easily since they’ve been cracking down on piracy lately, and making $1 million off of copies of their products doesn’t exactly get on their good side.

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Now THERE'S a reasonable excuse to sue someone, lol. Tired of seeing "Guy hacks his Avatar to be GREEN, gets sued by both Greenpeace and Sony for being such a d*ck!"

Bagelsaurus - 10-22-12
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Kind of hope they get the other fraudsters, there are so many on Ebay these days that it's getting to the point where I won't buy DS games off there anymore, same with some online retailers now as well.

Ash-Tray - 10-22-12
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Since 2009? Wow, even though he was a moron and a shifty sleazeball. I got to give it to the fact that the guy lasted pretty darn long and made a pretty penny. But I guess greed got the best of him as he kept going until his eventual downfall.

YA-HA!!!

taigasLuna - 10-22-12
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he had it coming o3o
Nintendo gonna use a poison mushroom on him
lol

Austin32 - 10-22-12
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It was good till you get caught

Datleco - 10-22-12
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Originally Posted by Ash-Tray

Since 2009? Wow, even though he was a moron and a shifty sleazeball. I got to give it to the fact that the guy lasted pretty darn long and made a pretty penny. But I guess greed got the best of him as he kept going until his eventual downfall.

YA-HA!!!

One man would counterfeit one dollar bills, he made hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars because WHO CHECKS ONE DOLLAR BILLS? You know how he finally was caught after many years of successful counterfeiting? He moved up to counterfeiting the 5 dollar bill.