Nintendo awarded $4.5 million in Switch piracy lawsuit

SecureBoot · 2026-09-25T16:42:50+0100

While it's hard to say that Nintendo is *wrong* here, it sucks that this guy is now in debt for life for something that ultimately didn't effect their bottom line too much

emigre · 2026-09-25T16:44:19+0100

This may sound controversial bit I think that money should be awarded to me.

Kingy · 2026-09-25T16:51:26+0100

To be fair, this guy is a total muppet. Trying to make a profit distributing pirated material, particularly Nintendo games, is a stupid idea. And then he bloody ghosts the court. He was asking for it.

JustSomeGuyOnTheSite · 2026-09-25T16:51:59+0100

SecureBoot said:
While it's hard to say that Nintendo is *wrong* here, it sucks that this guy is now in debt for life for something that ultimately didn't effect their bottom line too much

Is it really when the dude didn't even go to court and caused Nintendo to get default judgement?

Flame · 2026-09-25T16:52:22+0100

*hides his hard drives*

Ligeia · 2026-09-25T16:57:19+0100

Ridiculous

Ericzander · 2026-09-25T17:08:06+0100

Wait, I've been a lawyer for a number of years and now you're telling me that after getting served with a multi-million dollar lawsuit you SHOULDN'T just delete your Reddit account and ignore it?

Next you'll tell me that if I lose all the money I invested in high risk stock options that deleting Robinhood won't solve the problem.

chrisrlink · 2026-09-25T17:21:34+0100

i feel summury judgements like this needs to be capped at something managable the injunction is one thing but he'll probably die befor he ever scratchs 1 mil even

Lumpofcoal · 2026-09-25T17:28:55+0100

IIRC, Ninty actually tried to give him an off-ramp instead of going for the nuclear option straight away. They first tried with multiple cease and desists and he supposedly even agreed to it, but he still persisted anyway.

Exnor · 2026-09-25T17:41:23+0100

Lesson here: Hide your digital trail. C'mon if you are going to distribute ilegal copies of something, at least dont make it easy for anyone to track you.

lightwo · 2026-09-25T17:42:05+0100

Lumpofcoal said:
IIRC, Ninty actually tried to give him an off-ramp instead of going for the nuclear option straight away. They first tried with multiple cease and desists and he supposedly even agreed to it, but he still persisted anyway.

That's crazy. He must've had hero complex or something, but rather than dying a hero, he's a laughing stock and probably won't be remembered for long.

codezer0 · 2026-09-25T17:42:47+0100

The (Corpo) patent troll wins again.

thebigC · 2026-09-25T17:50:02+0100

can people like this just stop? they make the whole modding/emulation scene look like we are just a bunch of dirty criminals trying to make money from other people's work. these high profile cases with big dollar amounts attached to them are what gets attention from the mainstream and people from outside of the community are just going to think we all are like this. game preservation becomes more difficult because of people like this. i'm glad they got what was coming for them

CMDreamer · 2026-09-25T18:04:41+0100

And this is one of the ways you ruin your life for being stupid... Owned!

Lodad · 2026-09-25T18:24:55+0100

Pro tip: If a loved one ever goes missing, quickly frame them as a software pirate. Law enforcement seems to have a better record of tracking those types down.

diggeloid · 2026-09-25T18:26:53+0100

What a fool. All he had to do was tell the judge he was collecting those ROMs to train an AI model, and was selling them to other AI researchers.

SylverReZ · 2026-09-25T18:27:28+0100

Kingy said:
To be fair, this guy is a total muppet. Trying to make a profit distributing pirated material, particularly Nintendo games, is a stupid idea. And then he bloody ghosts the court. He was asking for it.

And he deleted his Reddit account to cover his tracks, but that doesn't stop the fact that Nintendo knew where he is, and can raid his home after warning him many times for selling pirated games. He's at fault for it, and was well aware of what he was doing. People like James puts the homebrew & hacking community at risk; some don't hack their console to pirate games but to develop ports and other projects that keeps the consoles alive. And unfortunately, companies like Nintendo & Sony will continue adding security measures to make them no longer viable to work with.

WiiUNewbie · 2026-09-25T18:50:10+0100

If a case against you ends in a default judgement, you have no one but yourself to blame. You de facto admit 100% liability by refusing to respond. He tried to profit from this and was not some preservationist. Let's not have any sympathy for an organized criminal here.

ChronoCrossfangirl2002 · 2026-09-25T18:51:17+0100

Many nowadays will do anything for money, even if it places their livelihood at risk. He placed himself in this position, and not a single bone in my body feels bad, this was simply a foolish thing to do.

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