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Nintendo subpoenas Google, Discord, Reddit and more in ongoing Switch pirate crackdown
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this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2024
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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.
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