Here we go again: Nintendo has won another lawsuit, this time against a seller of MiG Switch devices and circumvention services that allowed for piracy on Nintendo Switch devices. Customers could go to a website called Modded Hardware to purchase pre-modded Switch consoles that came with warez installed. The defendant, Ryan Daly, has been ordered to pay Nintendo $2 million as a result of damages to the company after ignoring multiple cease and desist orders. He was also served with an injunction that forbids him from circumventing copyright protections on Nintendo devices in the future.

Defendant’s conduct has caused NOA significant and irreparable harm. For example, the MIG Devices, Mod Chips, Hacked Consoles, and Circumvention Services allow members of the public to create, distribute, and play pirated Nintendo games on a massive scale. Thus, the MIG devices, Mod Chips, Hacked Consoles, and Circumvention Services harm NOA's goodwill, detract from NOA's consumer base, and enable widespread illegal and difficult to detect copying.

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[Bladexdsl]

this time though it was the idiots fault he was nintenDMCA'd but kept going plus he was selling them with pre installed games he was just asking for trouble.

 

[Ericzander]

Damn Nintendo. The MiG Switch isn't about piracy, it's about game preservation!

(Now let the discussion commence!)

 

[K3Nv4]

Damn Nintendo. The MiG Switch isn't about piracy, it's about game preservation!

(Now let the discussion commence!)

Apparently it's about piracy in the eyes of the law.

 

[omega59]

LOL!

 

[realtimesave]

lol people will never learn. plus for every one of him there's 10 others to take his place.

 

[sexually_inactive]

If I'm reading the court document correctly then the defendant lives in America? To conduct a business like this safely you need to live outside the reach of Nintendo's legal team.

 

[realtimesave]

If I'm reading the court document correctly then the defendant lives in America? To conduct a business like this safely you need to live outside the reach of Nintendo's legal team.

well yeah it clearly says MI which means Michigan.

 

[Noctosphere]

I've got to ask... why? Why are there people buying Mig Switch when CFW were available waaay before that?

 

[sexually_inactive]

I've got to ask... why? Why are there people buying Mig Switch when CFW were available waaay before that?

Probably because the MIG Switch wins on convenience. You don't need to find someone to install a modchip or mess around with any software.

 

[K3Nv4]

If I'm reading the court document correctly then the defendant lives in America? To conduct a business like this safely you need to live outside the reach of Nintendo's legal team.

It doesn't really matter under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) Foreign countries can still face lawsuits.

https://travel.state.gov/content/tr...eign Sovereign,purview of the Judicial branch.

 

[Noctosphere]

Probably because the MIG Switch wins on convenience. You don't need to find someone to install a modchip or mess around with any software.

Mig Switch is compatible with any OFW??? Since when?

 

[DragonMals]

Customers could go to a website called Modded Hardware to purchase pre-modded Switch consoles that game with warez installed.

after ignoring multiple cease and desist

Another win for Nintendo's lawsuit team. I guess its finally time they're doing their job right and for the Nintendo fans to poke holes into these side of things only for them to get caught. Hopefully they continue to do this form of law.

 

[Dark_Ansem]

Ignoring cease and desist eh, not too smart

 

[SDA]

I already said it... they sued this MiG Switch seller, but not the seller who made the Nintendo DS 208 in 1 cartridge. Which is really dumb.

 

[Kioku]

Stop selling WAREZ. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.

 

[BlusterBong]

Apparently it's about piracy in the eyes of the law.

And what is the Mig is used mainly for for the majority of people buying them, including third party resellers that intentionally add ROMs into it? it shouldn't be fucking rocket science that if people are selling something and it gets used for something else to the point that it gets well known more for the thing that is being done over the intended one, what do you think it'll be more known for?

 

[MysticStarlight]

Thanks to the MiG Switch I'm now worried about purchasing second hand games. A flagged cartridge (that is, a cartridge that was dumped with the MiG Switch Dumper and shared over the internet) can get your console banned.

This guy was selling Mig Switches loaded with roms, which came from legit cartridges... so yeah

 

[SylverReZ]

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Here we go again: Nintendo has won another lawsuit, this time against a seller of MiG Switch devices and circumvention services that allowed for piracy on Nintendo Switch devices. Customers could go to a website called Modded Hardware to purchase pre-modded Switch consoles that game with warez installed. The defendant, Ryan Daly, has been ordered to pay Nintendo $2 million as a result of damages to the company after ignoring multiple cease and desist orders. He was also served with an injunction that forbids him from circumventing copyright protections on Nintendo devices in the future.



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Well, the defendant was also selling the games along with them, so who am I to really judge here. Should I care for one guy bundling ROMs onto a microSD card to sell on a MIG Switch? No. That's scummy. Not only that, but the MIG had been cloned for about a year, and I doubt that Nintendo would be capable to successfully file an injunction on resellers like they did with the RCM Loader, they will find a loophole.

 

[IceBlazeWinters]

Thanks to the MiG Switch I'm now worried about purchasing second hand games. A flagged cartridge (that is, a cartridge that was dumped with the MiG Switch Dumper and shared over the internet) can get your console banned.

This guy was selling Mig Switches loaded with roms, which came from legit cartridges... so yeah

is that on the switch 1 as well?

as far as i knew that was switch 2 exclusive that people were getting banned from