Hacking Why is team Xecuter not sued by Nintendo?

[the_randomizer]

Can't people make a thread without others pissing on each other?

 

[The Catboy]

What they do is perfectly legal in China, so probably nothing Nintendo can do about it.

Technically it's also legal in the US if they aren't using any of Nintendo's code. This would be be handled the same way as the Game Genie case was handled when Nintendo tried suing them. So long as it's not using anything from Nintendo, they aren't really breaking the law and Nintendo would have a hell of time proving that they are.

 

[Kyuuketsuki]

Wouldn't the OP's question fall into the same category, as to why so many companies have gone un-sued by Nintendo for over three decades.

But with Nintendo, you're more than likely going to find failed attempts at suing a company, or Nintendo themselves getting sued. Team Xecuter is safe, because their product isn't doing anything that can't already be done for free with a paperclip (except for that cool interface).

 

[contezero]

https://ap.nintendo.com/news/press.jsp

Nintendo has, and will go after modchip/flashcart merchants and manufacturers.
They can't get everybody though. Especially when the targets are based in countries with lax copyright enforcement.
TX has the advantage of being at the top of the supplier food chain, way out of the reach of the big N.

It seems that Nintendo decided to go against rom sharing sites. Maybe a move against the Switch backup loaders?
Actually is not possible to connect to romsheperd because the DNSs are blocked from Italy after a request from Nintendo.

The targeted roms were almost all for 3DS, WiiU and Switch and only one for Wii (a Korean release of New Super Mario Bros).

For Italian speaking people this is the official document from the Italian Authority for Communications:
https://www.agcom.it/documents/1017...63680-44e9-4bc6-8b8a-a1d9ac8801e9?version=1.0

It should be noted that in the document is mentioned that the copyrighted material was accessible from the website but actually there were only link to third party file sharing services (no actual roms hosted on the site) and those link were unavailable without registering to the site.

The request from Nintendo was delivered to the Authority the 9th of may 2018.

 

[smf]

Team Xecuter is safe, because their product isn't doing anything that can't already be done for free with a paperclip (except for that cool interface).

It's more likely it's because they assume Team Xecuter is in china and the law is different there.

It seems that Nintendo decided to go against rom sharing sites.

Nintendo have a history of going after rom sites, for the last 20 years.

 

[TicinoLX]

Why isn't apple suing saurik for making cydia...

It's not what's being made that's the issue it's how the end user is using it.

They tried afaik, and they lost


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[SodaSoba]

They tried afaik, and they lost


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Yeah someone mentioned it previously, i never knew they tried tbh

 

[TicinoLX]

How comes they did indeed sue R4, but not Xecuter?


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[kumikochan]

How comes they did indeed sue R4, but not Xecuter?


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I can only guess that R4 was located somewhere where they had a bigger leval ground to sue them plus Nintendo waited a long time for that so that they could ask more money and more proof. Guessing they're doing thé same now

 

[TicinoLX]

I can only guess that R4 was located somewhere where they had a bigger leval ground to sue them plus Nintendo waited a long time for that so that they could ask more money and more proof. Guessing they're doing thé same now

Oh I see. I guess in china they are kinda safe. I read somewhere that in China they see copyright infringement as some kind of “homage”


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[Risingdawn]

Oh I see. I guess in china they are kinda safe. I read somewhere that in China they see copyright infringement as some kind of “homage”


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China make alot of money through the free trade and exportation of counterfeit goods.

 

[kumikochan]

Oh I see. I guess in china they are kinda safe. I read somewhere that in China they see copyright infringement as some kind of “homage”


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Could be or they're just starting to build a case against them. The longer they let it go on the more evidence they will have plus probably get a larger sum of money from them if they do win that case

 

[Localhorst86]

How comes they did indeed sue R4, but not Xecuter?


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Did they actually sue R4? I always thought they sued the resellers. In fact, a lot of R4 clones are still in business after ages, Nintendo takes down the shops, I guess.

 

[TicinoLX]

Could be or they're just starting to build a case against them. The longer they let it go on the more evidence they will have plus probably get a larger sum of money from them if they do win that case

I guess the best they could reach is an import stop / sell out into EU.
But here I see it a bit complicated regarding to the R4. Since R4 < 25€ (no import VAT) while this is 40€


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[kumikochan]

I guess the best they could reach is an import stop / sell out into EU.
But here I see it a bit complicated regarding to the R4. Since R4 < 25€ (no import VAT) while this is 40€


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I don't know what they can do entirely but I am pretty sure that they're cooking up something. They have a whole team of lawyers but pretty sure they won't leave it at this since Nintendo has been really aggressive these last years when it comes to stuff like that