Another day means another lawsuit, when it comes to Nintendo. A court dispute, originally filed in May, saw the company go after Uberchips, a reseller of Team Xecuter's, as Nintendo puts it, "piracy tools". Nintendo filed seeking damages against Uberchip's owner, Tom Dilts Jr., who proceeded to take his website down following the initial court dispute, though he maintained his own innocence. Prior to May, Dilts had been selling the SX OS dongle through Uberchips.com, which Nintendo states facilitated piracy, and now, both he and Nintendo have come to a conclusion in a new joint filing. A permanent injunction has been ruled, and a settlement of $2 million in damages must be paid to Nintendo. A stipulation of the ruling also permanently bans Dilts from ever reselling any Team Xecuter products, and if any leftover chips remained, they must be seized and destroyed.

This matter came before the Court on the parties’ Consent to Entry of Judgment and Permanent Injunction, Dkt. No. 14, and Joint Motion for Entry of Final Judgment and Permanent Injunction, Dkt. No. 15. The Court enters judgment as follows: 1. Plaintiff is hereby awarded judgment against all Defendants, jointly and severally, in the amount of US$2,000,000.00. 2. Each party shall bear its own costs and attorneys’ fees.

Source: court documents, courtesy of Torrent Freak

 

[Meepers55]

That's only the case for pre-patched V1's, They went haywire because this chip (even though SX support sucks, and it makes a lot of homebrewing and mods break (atmo etc) or even brick (incognito on v2's)) allows any console to be hard modded without any jig requirement. Just click power and you're done.

Yes, but the person in question wasn't referring to the modchip or ipatched units. They specifically said that they were using a jig to go into RCM, which implies they were on a pre-patch Switch.

Not a big fan of fucking over my hacked Switch, especially as the launch models skyrocket in scalping value on eBay!

There isn't any issue with using AutoRCM and it's far more convenient than having to use a jig. There's also the possibility that, depending on its build quality, long-term usage of a jig may damage your pins.

 

[realtimesave]

Topic equates to bankruptcy. Good thing it isn't jail time.

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funny how theres nothing about this on maxconsole

That's because the person that owns maxconsole is in jail and has no access to a computer.

 

[Homlet]

Using insults, how mature of you. Get bent, take your ad hominem attacks and get stuffed.

N-no!!! You used mean words!! Take it back!!!
Yeah, I did get annoyed atyou constantly saying that emulation was not pirating and that you were not a pirate, while pirating games. Own up to it fellow pirate.

 

[the_randomizer]

Oh no, Nintendo's games are being pirated, they're going to go under

 

[Homlet]

Oh no, Nintendo's games are being pirated, they're going to go under

Are we making shit up now? Just say you were wrong, no shame in that. We won't think less of you for that, it's not like you sound respectable to begin with.

 

[Meatloaf916]

Are we making shit up now? Just say you were wrong, no shame in that. We won't think less of you for that, it's not like you sound respectable to begin with.

it doesn't sound like you thought anything of him in the first place. it must be exhausting trying to tell everyone you are right when you are handling it wrong. people are taking this info in the weirdest ways.

 

[keubibo]

Joycon driffting
Nintendo "I'm Sorry"

 

[Dagosty]

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Another day means another lawsuit, when it comes to Nintendo. A court dispute, originally filed in May, saw the company go after Uberchips, a reseller of Team Xecuter's, as Nintendo puts it, "piracy tools". Nintendo filed seeking damages against Uberchip's owner, Tom Dilts Jr., who proceeded to take his website down following the initial court dispute, though he maintained his own innocence. Prior to May, Dilts had been selling the SX OS dongle through Uberchips.com, which Nintendo states facilitated piracy, and now, both he and Nintendo have come to a conclusion in a new joint filing. A permanent injunction has been ruled, and a settlement of $2 million in damages must be paid to Nintendo. A stipulation of the ruling also permanently bans Dilts from ever reselling any Team Xecuter products, and if any leftover chips remained, they must be seized and destroyed.



Source: court documents, courtesy of Torrent Freak

Original Switch SX OS owners already have thousands of games to play on theirs HDDs so why change it to another exploit? Just enjoy the tons of games you already have. New Switch is already launching next year so, whats the fuss about..

 

[habla2k]

New Switch is already launching next year so, whats the fuss about..

You seem to have inside views of nintendo? Please enlighten us. As far as i know there might only be another Revision that enables 4K output (not rendering), thats all. They won't release a completely new Switch which needs new games and so on. the Switch right now is only 3 years old. Far too early for something new.

 

[Legendaykai]

Atmosphere also enables piracy.

well once they are both gone then things will be better for developers (granted Nintendo need to bring the virtual console back & have themes aswell as a file management system like how the 3ds got one) That was really good I actualy play my 3ds alot more than my switch.

 

[graeme122]

Something interesting as @PPLToast pointed out, there is a document where Nintendo is advocating for emulators for testing lol. They even made a program to convert the original .RDA files to the pirate format, .FDS which is amazing lol. pic.twitter.com/mLgRDoJLDy

— Forest of Illusion (@forestillusion) September 30, 2020

 

[MetoMeto]

Mafia is keeping their monopoly in check. Law is protecting the big guys as always i see....

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Nintendo was in the right here.

I have irresistible desire to vomit every time i see "Nintendo was in the right here." comment.

 

[Lodad]

Better take away all of our phones, computers, flash drives, and paperclips! They're dangerous "hacking tools" and Nintendo should definitely see them as a threat!

 

[smf]

Better take away all of our phones, computers, flash drives, and paperclips! They're dangerous "hacking tools" and Nintendo should definitely see them as a threat!

Everything ever created can have legitimate and illegal uses, courts have to take all of the arguments and make a ruling. In the case of SX OS it's pretty clear what the intention behind the product was and the law does have provision to ban products with that intention.

Mafia is keeping their monopoly in check. Law is protecting the big guys as always i see....

Create something worth protecting and the law will protect you too..

 

[RedBlueGreen]

The profit margin for running mod chip stores probably won't cover the entire $2 million. It's probably more of a symbolic move to scare off anyone else who wants to start one. Running a modchip store in the USA is pretty dumb. Ever after the massive busts back in the Wii scene running a shop in the USA is just too risky.

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The majority of Switch consoles on the market can't be hacked without one of Xecuter's modchips. Their software is also dead simple to setup and use.

Pretty sure it doesn't matter. It's licensed as an LLC, so the owner is probably protected from responsibility for the debt. Nintendo knows they're not getting the $2M. This is about sending a message and seizing the modchips. There's a reason a lot of sellers of this stuff are based in Chinese territories, or other Asian countries that don't care about copyright infringement. I feel bad for the business owner, but they should've seen this coming.

At least Nintendo doesn't appear to be going after Atmosphere and other CFW makers who don't charge for licenses or chips.

 

[IGHOR]

So they finally got the money needed to fix a drifting Joy-Con issues right?

 

[tofttwaswas]

Fuck Nintendo.

 

[FocusedWiiWarrior]

Are they going to use all that money to fix the drifting joy cons or not?