What's next. "Nintendo gets judge to order former rom universe owner to deliver Nintendo's legal team newspapers every day crawling on all fours and dressed in a dog costume"?
Wouldn't be surprised, they just want utter humiliation and apparently also want to make an enemy of all of their former fans, And by the way if you're still a Nintendo fan after reading news like this, don't ever talk to me again.
You're reacting to Techspot's somewhat lightly researched news article. This story REALLY isn't what it seems to be.
This article never mentioned that:
1) The site charged for premium access
2) The site prominently featured Switch ROMs, movie rips and ebook rips on the homepage
3) The guy made his living (A not insignificant $30+k a year) off this site
4) The case primarily centred on the distribution and possession of Switch and 3DS ROMs. The original legal complaint never even mentioned NES ROMs so Techspot shouldn't even be talking about it.
5) Downloads of NES and SNES ROMs represented a small fraction of the actual downloads - The DS had the largest number of downloads (4989978 plus many more across different download categories). and the Switch had 185492 for Nintendo Switch Roms plus 129353 for Nintendo Switch Roms Trimmed (XCI) (Whatever that means) The SNES had 23354 the NES had 16129 This data is based on a web archive capture on 18 March 2019. The numbers would undoubtedly have grown up till the point when they had to be taken down. Nintendo quoted "nearly 300,000 downloads of copies of pirated Nintendo Switch games and more than 500,000 copies of pirated Nintendo 3DS games." in their complaint letter.
If you're still against Nintendo after reading all this, feel free to block me or something.