Nintendo subpoenas Google, Discord, Reddit and more in ongoing Switch pirate crackdown
Nintendo is going after more unauthorized Switch shops and modders, and has asked a US District Court to subpoena busin…
It's never been ok to pirate a console that is still on the market. Though, part of that is how rare it has been for emulation to be feasible for a current console. But either way, it has always been demonstrably illegal. And especially in the case of yuzu where they were completely flaunting and charging money to play games that weren't even released yet. I honestly put most of Nintendo's current war path on their shoulders. That's not just riding the backs of giants, that's climbing into their faces and flicking them... ask any insect, that is a good way to get yeeted to the ground and for the giant to stop tolerating the previously benign presence of the rest of the insects.
Nintendo has definitely done some over reaches, but going after Switch pirates is not a good example of that.
The "why" doesn't matter as much as how judicial precedent works. One company doing this will open the gates for many companies to start using each other for missing their products or breeching conduct. Nintendo using the justice department as their own goon squad to hunt down individual people for perceived infractions is alarming.
It's never been ok to pirate a console that is still on the market. Though, part of that is how rare it has been for emulation to be feasible for a current console
How old are you? Almost every single console has been emulated before it's successor got released.
And even without emulators it has been possible to pirate games on most consoles during their lifetime, the Xbox One and Xbox Series being the only exceptions during the last 3 decades
Among computing hardware companies Nintendo is really second only to Apple in making sure to remind us to never buy their devices on a regular basis. Well, unless you count Sony perhaps but not sure I would count smart TVs in quite the same category.
I would place Nintendo above Apple on that point. Apple hasn’t subpoenaed social media for hosting jailbreaking sections.
What did sony do? I actually never heard anyone talk badly of them before.
The PS3 geohot thing.
Because its their fault there are un-patchable vunerabilities in the Switch's hardware, yessiree. 🙄
Welcome to the gaming world! Pick your poison!
It's either:
Steam is not perfect (it has DRM), but aside from that they're cool
Their DRM is optional, and many games on Steam are DRM free, meaning you can copy the files to another machine not running Steam and it would work just fine. And Steam's DRM, if used, is the least annoying DRM out there IMO.
Less games actually use Steam's DRM than people think. Even the ones that require Steam to run often just use their API for stuff like multiplayer functionality or displaying leaderboards.
There's an open source library that you can sub in to emulate the API and run the games on LAN without Steam. I believe there's no decryption involved so it should be 100% legal, just like how Proton reimplements Windows APIs.
This company should fire their entire legal department.
Hey Nintendo, how about you just release an emulator on PC and sell ROMs yourself? I'd gladly buy pretty much every first party title you make. You could even limit it to older games and I'd still buy a ton.
I don't want to keep Nintendo hardware around, but I do want to play Nintendo games. My wallet is ready.
if nintendo actually did it, I'd expect them to fuck it up in the most nonsensical and uniquely nintendo way possible.
Nintendo isn't know for handling "the internet" very well. Just look at their online services compared to their competitors over the years. We still use friend codes ffs.
Now that we have viable PC handhelds I no longer have a reason to care about Nintendo. Blast the pirates or don't, I'm not buying their shit either way. On the other hand I've got a lot of friends who actually have decent money in Nintendo's ecosystem who use emulators to play the games they own in a way they prefer. This has left a bad taste in their mouths...
Yup, I'm happy to buy Nintendo games, I would really rather not play them on the Switch. If Nintendo released on PC, I'd be willing to pay more than the Switch game price.
Wouldn't it be funny if people made a switch 2 emulator quickly and host it through i2p or tor, maybe git through those or just send patches so it can't be taken down, that would be horrible. I hope people don't do that to Nintendo.
Great. Push people towards communities and tools that stopped caring about not including a dumped bios.
Lol as if that will stem much of anything
