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Nintendo Pressing Charges Against A Man Who Made Over $900,000 In Counterfeit Sales
Professional pirate Justin Success Brooks (the Internet kind, not the ocean kind), may have to rethink his middle name, because he is facing jail time for his attempts at counterfeiting and selling Nintendo video games.
Joystiq reports that Brooks made approximately $970,000 counterfeiting Wii, DS, and DSi games between 2009 and 2011. He is being charged with seven counts of fraud including, "two counts of fraudulent trading, two counts of supplying an article to use in fraud, two counts of unauthorized possession of goods bearing a trademark and one count of unauthorized use of a trademark." He is pleading guilty to everything.
Brooks is awaiting sentencing on November 9.
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