Nintendo Wants Reddit to expose people who were part of the R/SwitchPiracy subreddit

[Robert Newbie]

Coming January 2025: Nintendo wants gbatemp to expose Switch pirates.

I have no concern for justice, I am just a pirate on the internet

@The Catboy went that-a-way

 

[cearp]

You're still breaching copyright laws.

This is dependent on where you are / your country... for example, until recently, "piracy" was legal in Canada.
Which other countries have not made it illegal yet, not so sure, but what I'm saying is that piracy / "doing things big N doesn't want you to do" is not illegal everywhere.

 

[ciro64]

Thus far, the individuals that ninty has sued for piracy aren't exactly benign parties. They were all warned (C&D) multiple times but either refused to comply or broke their agreement. Ninty didn't go for the nuclear option straight away.

In the case of "archbox", it is stated that he initially agreed to comply with the C&D. But it was found out later that he continued to violate it. And when confronted, he allegedly changed his tune and told them that he wasn't doing anything wrong.

For the most recent "pirate streamer", he ignored all warnings (over the course of 2 years I believe) and emailed ninty's legal department with a taunt that basically said to the effect of "Come get me if you can bruh, I'm not gonna stop, I have thousands of burner accounts, I can do this all day!".

Ninty warned them multiple times, what recourse was there left for them? Legal, as prescribed by the law. The individuals that ninty are making an example out of are the outliers who repeatedly poked the hornet's nest. The overwhelming majority stop at the first C&D.

This is a nice summary of what actually takes for Nintendo to go after you.

Just saying "It's morally right to pirate Nintendo games" on the internet isn't the blasphemy some people think it is.
Did you do something big enough that actually makes you relevant? Is there actual evidence of piracy activity from you? If the answer to both of these questions isn't "yes", then you aren't the target.

"But if you say those nasty things you are equally as bad because you are incentivizing people to further prejudice the preservation and modding scene"
I think this is a black and white perspective and I don't see it that way, sorry

 

[SeventhSon7]

a new internet generation is about to learn about opsec the hard way

 

[ReveriePass]

Nintendo HQs deserve to be egged daily

 

[codezer0]

Nintendo HQs deserve to be egged daily

I was thinking of the littlest nuclear bomb item from the MDK series, actually.

A portable sun in the board of directors room at NoJ and NoA's legal floor would simultaneously erode their ability to use that cult of personality to levy trillion dollar fines to individuals and demand lifetime income succinctly.

Sadly, Nintendo of Europe has already been treated as a 10th class citizen by the Japanese bureau.

 

[_Ruri_]

Yeah, this is what I see all this ultimately culminating into. With the recent lawsuits that have been occurring regarding piracy, and the subpoena on top of that, I would not be surprised if the brazen openness, endless bragging/taunting, and "holier-than-thou"* attitude of Reddit pirates and pirates in other communities ultimately gets all emulators except those authorized by IP holders outlawed.

*(Ex: The same behavior that bred the constantly-regurgitated "It Is AlWaYs MoRaLlY rIgHt To PiRaTe NiNtEnDo GaMeS" copy/pasta that practically every single pirate these days seems to live and die by.)

Yeah, I'm getting juuust a lil' bit tired of all the "it's always morally correct to blah blah" and the "if buying isn't owning piracy isn't stealing" stuff. Those people are more interested in letting the world see how cool they are by pirating things than, y'know, actually doing the stuff. Posers. Lol.

NGL, I was (still kinda am, but more as an archive nowadays) a big Reddit user for a lot of time but all this moral piracy bullshit really tired me out, so I decided to look for other internet places and found the temp. Goddamn it's waaaaay better here. Hoping other redditors won't find it though, although I doubt it because, let me tell you from a former outsider's perspective, this website really isn't as underground as some people here make it sound like. It's really likely that if r/SwitchPirates comes down than the majority (or at least a good portion) of the people posting there will go here and I really hope it doesn't happen :/

 

[Shape]

... And guess what? Anybody can post stuff on usenet, you don't have any assurance that stuff posted there is legit. In contrast to private trackers, which have high quality standards and low quality or malicious content gets quickly removed and bad users are banned.

While I agree with the facts and the sentiment, this likely was an opportune teachable moment regarding VPN services, not just private trackers.

We did get called complete idiots, however, with little to no research provided on the matter so...

 

[DJPlace]

this is not funny anymore... it's just stupid...

 

[Ondrashek06]

For all those people that are saying that the New Switch will be hacked soon, don't hold your breath - after all, it is still impossible to homebrew Mariko units or later through software. You still can homebrew them, but you need to be experienced in soldering and have the necessary tools ready, which is not something that a casual user has or is.

 

[cearp]

For all those people that are saying that the New Switch will be hacked soon, don't hold your breath

We can pray that the recent flashcards still work (as switch 2 should be backwards compatible)!

 

[gameboy64]

If you gave Nintendo infinite amount of money they wouldn't use it to improve their products/company they would just sue everyone on Earth

 

[bakus522]

using Reddit is a worse crime

am imagining average reddit user getting turned into an informant for reddit gold lol

 

[SeventhSon7]

If you gave Nintendo infinite amount of money they wouldn't use it to improve their products/company they would just sue everyone on Earth

 

[captainpringles]

I'm still baffled by people wanting to mod their Switches. Just emulate the games you want to play. It's better than playing it on hardware that was outdated when it was first released.

 

[BlusterBong]

I'm still baffled by people wanting to mod their Switches. Just emulate the games you want to play. It's better than playing it on hardware that was outdated when it was first released.

It's not that the hardware was outdated, it's the clocking Big N set for it is so low, to the point if you did hack it and even overclock it, you can potentially emulate switch games on a switch in 4K.

 

[captainpringles]

It's not that the hardware was outdated, it's the clocking Big N set for it is so low, to the point if you did hack it and even overclock it, you can potentially emulate switch games on a switch in 4K.

Yep, and you'll get to witness that glorious 4K for all of 8 minutes before the battery runs out.

At this point, I'd just pick up a Mig flash cart. Or just wait a while (and I mean a while) until Nintendo no longer cares about Switch emulation.

 

[M7L7NK7]

I'm still baffled by people wanting to mod their Switches. Just emulate the games you want to play. It's better than playing it on hardware that was outdated when it was first released.

I mod mine for homebrew ports and retroarch.. plus some of us don't have a gaming pc or want to use one

 

[Vetusomaru]

I'm pro-piracy but stupid shit like that and being so vocal about piracy is why Nintendo is so overprotective. And articles like that at this forum don't help either. Thanks to idiots like you is why old, great roms and soundtracks forums like SnesOrama and FFShrine get shut down.

 

[technocrab]

is Nintendo one of a kind company who fight piracy like this?