Mexico recognises various copyrights, which I presume includes Nintendo, and even without that I am sure Nintendo would do the token registration thing for their works if that somehow applied. To that end you are not say by those reasons. Being in Mexico you are probably still reasonably safe as the courts, ISPs and so forth have bigger fish to fry and problems to solve.
While I would agree VPNs are way over hyped, them mainly being places and companies which found themselves with the need to have very fat pipes but them not always being full deciding to try to fill up some of the "wasted" bandwidth* and get a bit for it, I can't dismiss them that easily, especially not for the prices many seem to be offering. They defend pretty well against most common attacks (the postal service monitoring the internet node might not care about my personal data going through to a website as much as my business plans so they can sabotage them but the dude harvesting stuff in the coffee shop cares more, and at the same time might prevent a nice dox one day when a website gets compromised, or if my bank continues to employ crack smokers in their security department) and while you might find filling in a do nothing form a minor speedbump for you I can see paying a token sum per year to dodge the lot, and possibly dodge problems with others in your life, schools, employers and such, to say nothing of those that do the whole packet inspection thing and slow down accordingly.
There used to be a popular phrase in these circles that ran "free, fast, secure. pick two", the implication being that torrents tended to go for the first two, and a properly chosen VPN changes that one a bit.
*classically you saw a similar thing where various places had to have thousands of phone lines run for wartime measures or whatever and then companies setting up there as there was an abundance of such lines, nobody then caring if they could not ring in to win a holiday if bombs were about to drop.
Depends what you mean.
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/02/nintendo-wins-1-5m-aussie-piracy-settlement/
That was a GBAtemp member and with actions taken on GBAtemp forming a key part of it.
That however was uploading/distribution (and, worse still, of a then unreleased game). I imagine you probably meant the simple downloading side of things, and while IP law does not care that much about the distinction as far as being a viable target or not it does seem to drop the willingness of companies to engage.
A few posts back I did mention some historical examples
https://torrentfreak.com/codemasters-set-lawyers-on-bittorrent-colin-mcrae-071129/
https://torrentfreak.com/youre-caught-downloading-dream-pinball-settle-now-or-go-broke/
That is actual legal action. I don't think anybody that called their bluff (aka ignored the letter) ended up in front of the beak and got slapped because of it but I don't know.
