But sure, let's ban talk about piracy. What's come next? Perhaps let's also ban talking about modding, because it could lead towards piracy. Let's also ban discussion about consoles, because that too could lead to talk towards piracy.
That is a big slippery slope is I ever saw one. There is a world between enabling piracy and closing down the site where emulation, fan made projects, modding, game preservation etc live. That stuff is legal, or at worst, grey area.
But no, let's talk about what is definitely, without the shadow of a doubt, illegal and let's pretend that if we were to restrict it it would lead to the death of the site.
It wouldn't.
Many modders want nothing to do with piracy, and for good reason. Modding communities are full of passionate people who only wish to keep the games they love alive and share their work with the community. Game preservation aims to ensure that all games ever released remain perpetually accessible.
Piracy does none of that and on the contrary it poses a threat to communities.
Blaming Nintendo for taking action and for their "shitty hardware" is kinda weird, honestly. It's not like Sony does much better and they've always liked to see themselves as the Rolls-Royce of consoles. And that changes nothing on the morality or legality standpoint.
And in any case, people pirate because they don't have the money, because they're cheap, because they don't care... they don't pirate to show support for the modding / emulation community. If they did it would achieve the exact opposite as it fuels lawsuits with evidence of damage.
DeadSkullzJr said it really well, people have gotten too comfortable taking about piracy like it's no big deal and yes I do think this was a major reason for Nintendo to go so hard on emulators after the TotK/Yuzu incident.
I'm not naive, I know that even without piracy they'd still probably go against fan projects or modding from time to time, It is shitty, but it's then down to us to prove them (and the courts) that these projects aren't a threat. How else do you ever expect things to get better? Certainly no with these self-interested crusades against them and going full on piracy instead.
It all comes down to what kind of community we want to be in the end. If we want to be seen as a mature community that is driven by passion and wants to work with publishers to enhance games (and their brand) then we should in fact not be tolerating discussions about piracy.
There is not a world where Nintendo & others will ever lessen their restrictions so long as people are so openly bragging about pirating their games before their release date. It will never lead to a better outcome for the community.
It's a lose-lose situation.
Finally, customers are consumers.
Pirates aren't customers, they're only consumers. They don't get to steal from companies then complain about how said companies choose to deal with their piracy problem later.