Nintendo is going after more people who were involved in distributing Nintendo Switch warez and popularizing it on Reddit. A moderator, "Archbox", of the r/switchpiracy subreddit, is being sued by Nintendo for copyright infringement through distributing and hosting pirated Switch games. According to the court document, Nintendo attempted to reach out multiple times to the defendant, named James Williams, to get them to stop hosting "pirate shops" that would allow for seamless illegal game downloads from the Nintendo Switch console directly. Williams also requested user donations to help pay for the costs of hosting the illegal warez. Allegedly, after Nintendo reached out a final time with a cease and desist order, Williams stated a legal counsel would be in contact imminently, to which Nintendo claims never happened.

As a result, Nintendo is seeking $4.5 million dollars ($150,000 per infringement) from Williams in damages to their brand, as he was willfully breaking the law with "reckless abandon".

Source

 

[SylverReZ]

Guess he's not going to be donating to his favorite e-girl streamer anytime soon, but instead to a big Japanese corporation.

 

[HarveyHouston]

Everyone saw this coming, right? I mean, come on! The subreddit is called SWITCH PIRACY! I'm surprised Nintendo didn't have their legal team on him sooner.

 

[nWo]

I always said it: since this president took over, things took a turn for the worse. The Nintendo Directs changed, the "soul" and fun of the company faded, you can see that even in small details like the Switch menu screen, prices went up and they started suing everything they could... Just a boring, everyday business tactic.

Sadly, I think the magic time of the company is gone, at least until another person takes over and starts changing things, but that will take a good amount of time. Also, there is the detail that, although this way of thinking is ridiculous for the consumer, it is indeed good for the company: money. So, I doubt things will change. Just look at what Xbox has done, and the consumers still buy and support those kind of practices. It's incredible.

For me, that I have been a videogame player and Nintendo user since 1991, it has been a wild ride, both good and bad. I miss those times, for example, the N64 or Gamecube times, were we had fun adds on TV, even on magazines, the games were done with love and care, with so much content inside a cartridge or a tiny disc, we had the legendary E3 presentations, all of those were just magic brought to our lives... Oh how things change.

 

[raxadian]

Shouldn't they sue Reddit too?

Honesty this just seems petty because it happened like way too late, how old is the Switch 1 again? Why didn't Nintendo sue years ago?

Is like Nintendo is following a "How to be hated" guide.

Not even during the Nes era with their exclusivity contracts and complete control of games in the Nes was Nintendo so hateable.

 

[EduAAA]

Nintendo Bad!!!

Nintendo chicken they not punch big guys, Nintendo cowards, haha...

Me strong, me cool, me brave, me attack government and big companies. Me win somehow, me very clever, Nintendon't hahaha

Me own every Nintendo hardware there is, me 51 years old incel, me love Nintendo games, me pay for emulators, me try to follow the trending to feel that I've got online friends...

Me gonna sleeeep, Nintendo bad, nintendobad,nintend,nin,in,cel...zzzZz

 

[MPRTwice]

Nobody normal relates to a Redditor; at least I'd hope so.

This sounds like the start to a great friendship, and Hollywood is powerless to sue me for using that casa blanca film reference.

Remember in general folks: the memes here _are_ fair use. Nintendo cannot come after them. So we all have that fair use ability here. Nintendo is an awful organization but it does still understand what that term means.

 

[CMDreamer]

Stupid Reddit mods, being stupid Reddit mods.

No surprise here.

Next!

 

[MPRTwice]

I always said it: since this president took over, things took a turn for the worse. The Nintendo Directs changed, the "soul" and fun of the company faded, you can see that even in small details like the Switch menu screen, prices went up and they started suing everything they could... Just a boring, everyday business tactic.

Sadly, I think the magic time of the company is gone, at least until another person takes over and starts changing things, but that will take a good amount of time. Also, there is the detail that, although this way of thinking is ridiculous for the consumer, it is indeed good for the company: money. So, I doubt things will change. Just look at what Xbox has done, and the consumers still buy and support those kind of practices. It's incredible.

For me, that I have been a videogame player and Nintendo user since 1991, it has been a wild ride, both good and bad. I miss those times, for example, the N64 or Gamecube times, were we had fun adds on TV, even on magazines, the games were done with love and care, with so much content inside a cartridge or a tiny disc, we had the legendary E3 presentations, all of those were just magic brought to our lives... Oh how things change.

Have you read about Gunpei Yokoi?

-Was Miyamoto's mentor.
-Came up with big ideas that are used widely in Super Mario Bros.
-Came up with the gameboy.
-Said that innovation and quality are unfortunately limited by favoring cutting-edge technology over resourcefulness.
-Was given foul play and saw a half-finished virtual boy released under his name (and yet Nintendo was quick to embrace the idea of a 3DS once he was gone), which was one of the reasons he left.
-Gunpei said that Nintendo was losing innovation and was more interested in quick money...he said that in the early nineteen nineties, by the way.
-When he left, he was killed around a year later: his driver rear-ended a truck (who does that in 1990's Japan?), he was not harmed badly at first, but then a tour guide lethally struck him as they got out to inspect the damage (I'm sorry, what? A nineteen nineties Japanese tour guide did not see a man in the middle of the road?), and his driver was not hit (really? you expect me to believe that is an "accident"?). Seeing as how he was developing a competing console (Bandai wonderswan); I _absolutely_ Believe this was an intentional setup to get rid of him. you don't just leave a company like that as one of the "higher ups with great ideas" unless something is _very_ wrong, like with Alex John (Direct X main developer) vs. Bill Gates, and then have all of that happen to you and not the people around you that caused it as an "accident". The exact cause of death remains "undisclosed".
-he also came up with the metroid franchise; hence it is very different from most Nintendo video game series.

 

[kudofan]

Nintendo Bad!!!

Nintendo chicken they not punch big guys, Nintendo cowards, haha...

Me strong, me cool, me brave, me attack government and big companies. Me win somehow, me very clever, Nintendon't hahaha

Me own every Nintendo hardware there is, me 51 years old incel, me love Nintendo games, me pay for emulators, me try to follow the trending to feel that I've got online friends...

Me gonna sleeeep, Nintendo bad, nintendobad,nintend,nin,in,cel...zzzZz

Wait a sec... Was that satire?
I almost couldn't tell.
You sound exactly like them!

 

[AndorfRequissa]

while i think the guy was stupid to continue to play chicken with nintendo after getting a cease and desist i still think nintendo is a petty company and this hurts nintendo more than it does this guys image.

i know alot of people who read stuff like this and are closing their wallets to nintendo because they dont want to support criminal yakuza.

its plain and clear that the criminal yakuza in nintendo that used to operate in the shadows is now operating in the open. Japanese people should be ashamed of the yakuza tactics.

 

[MPRTwice]

while i think the guy was stupid to continue to play chicken with nintendo after getting a cease and desist i still think nintendo is a petty company and this hurts nintendo more than it does this guys image.

i know alot of people who read stuff like this and are closing their wallets to nintendo because they dont want to support criminal yakuza.

its plain and clear that the criminal yakuza in nintendo that used to operate in the shadows is now operating in the open. Japanese people should be ashamed of the yakuza tactics.

About the parts of this that are interesting only, I had the honor of surviving south korean coup tactics used to try to get rid of us, etc. but I am curious about the Japan side of things. I've seen a lot, more than the KCIA wanted me to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intelligence_Service_(South_Korea)

 

[Nincompoopdo]

When revenue is down, you need to find a culprit to pin down for the shareholders.

 

[AndorfRequissa]

About the parts of this that are interesting only, I had the honor of surviving south korean coup tactics used to try to get rid of us, etc. but I am curious about the Japan side of things. I've seen a lot, more than the KCIA wanted me to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intelligence_Service_(South_Korea)

im sure u have some very interesting stories to tell. criminal yakuza has always been scattered across business in japan. from my perspective nintendo is in worse shape than what most people who don't understand japan and the internal conflicts with organizations that are entrenched into the upper society of japan like the criminal yakuza.

if this guy lived in japan he wouldnt even get a cease and desist letter.

 

[MPRTwice]

im sure u have some very interesting stories to tell. criminal yakuza has always been scattered across business in japan. from my perspective nintendo is in worse shape than what most people who don't understand japan and the internal conflicts with organizations that are entrenched into the upper society of japan like the criminal yakuza.

if this guy lived in japan he wouldnt even get a cease and desist letter.

Thank you. I will share this boldly:

In the nineteen eighties, General Choi Hong Hi (one of my former instructors, though I never met him directly as he passed a few months after I started), who greatly opposed Park Chung Hee's dictatorship in South Korea, was already exiled due to the coup. So when he arrived to the U.S. by plane after a visit to Canada, our men had to protect him; KCIA members are ruthless; they wanted to gun him down on U.S. soil. Since U.S. agents surrounded him, the KCIA could not open fire without a war, so that is how he was protected.

I have recieved many death threats from the remaining KCIA members, but I did not know that they actually started the UFC by means of the 1988 Seoul Games; they watered things down on purpose to help promote gladiator violence in the U.S.; the top UFC actor who Khabib outright said is beyond the others including himself was personally trained by a KCIA member; I met him and a few others, and they had no qualms about trying to threaten to kill me in front of kids; very dangerous people. And they want me dead because I showed how the UFC does not even know intro white-belt Tae-Kwon-Do military training that _kids_ did at a much more effective level in the nineteen sixties. They asked the KCIA member why he never showed that lead UFC actor what I called "the first hour intro white belt training techniques for kids" that defeated his top actor off-stage in front of their entire mma team, so that was a target on the back of my head.

And why did the KCIA bother with all of this? To introduce and promote drugs, especially the more dangerous and subtle ones, not tested at all in the UFC (hence "clean test results for performance enhancers" such as the g.e.a.r drug used to induce loads of adrenaline that is far worse than any cocaine or anabolic steroids) for the love of money:

So that is why I am so bold. As more tried to get more violent and push this nonsense, I became more bold to get in the way; notice how the UFC went far down in popularity in the past two years of me meeting the top UFC actor's bosses, defeating them and their bosses off stage at their own gyms, and living to talk about it.

I don't make stupid choices; that does not mean I am not fearless.

I am tough and able to casually dismiss KCIA soldiers trying to take my life; that does not mean I do not favor Mercy and Kindness above all else.

The ROK Army's job was to protect the weak.

 

[paulttt]

Nintendo, you greedy. No more for you ever! Sony dont care but you care too much about money! SMH!

They're a business, of course they care about money.

 

[M7L7NK7]

Okay, your turn people who are angry with Nintendo: Nintendo was patient with this criminal and he pretty much demanded that they sue him. So they sued him.

Doesn't matter, people on here have a weird fixation of jumping on the Nintendo hate train even when they're actually in the right. How dare a business protect their property!

 

[RedBlueGreen]

I guarantee you they don't care money changed hands, they care about potentially lost sales. When that guy uploaded New Super Mario Bros. Wii like 15 years ago Nintendo sued him for $1.6 million.

 

[MPRTwice]

I guarantee you they don't care money changed hands, they care about potentially lost sales. When that guy uploaded New Super Mario Bros. Wii like 15 years ago Nintendo sued him for $1.6 million.

money _did_ change hands; they lost that money from what happened with that. Though indirectly by means of them losing those sales.

 

[VinsCool]

This is why being anonymous on the internet and hiding your traces could save your ass.
Honestly, that Reddit moderator was so careless that I cannot really feel much empathy.
It was just as stupid as commiting a crime in broad daylight in front of a crowd, and then act surprised you get caught immediately.

Not that I am defending any of the piracy part, of course that is very much illegal, I am just pointing out the obvious facts.

 

[DuoForce]

I wonder how people are gonna- oh, yeah they're already defending Big N. Shameful company that only punches down.