Nintendo’s continued fight against Switch game piracy continues, as it’s now set its sights on a Nintendo Switch piracy subreddit which was recently highlighted in a lawsuit against an alleged pirate.
It was back in June (thanks, TorrentFreak) that Nintendo first filed a lawsuit against James Williams, also known as ‘Archbox.’ It alleged that he had “been involved in creating, operating, and promoting (and assisting others to create, operate, and promote) a network of unauthorized online ‘shops’ (nicknamed ‘freeshops’) which offer to the public extensive libraries of pirated Nintendo Switch games for download.” At the time, it called him “an active and prominent member of the Reddit community r/SwitchPirates,” and according to a new report from Game File, it sounds like the company is planning further investigation into the subreddit itself.
In a new court filing, it’s stated that an “extensive and diligent investigation into the operation, ownership, and control of the Pirate Shops, including efforts to determine the identity of Defendant Williams” previously took place, in which “we learned various details about the Pirate Shops and about Defendant’s involvement in them.” One of these things, it’s claimed, is that the “Defendant was the primary moderator of the ‘SwitchPirates’ Reddit community.” What’s more, it adds, “we also became aware of multiple other online actors who appeared to have a role in the Pirate Shops,” but it wasn’t able to identify or locate them at the time.
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As far as I can recall a lot of post gamecube nintendo piracy seemed to hinge on downloading shit with directly with your jailbroken console either from a free shop or by fooling the actual nintendo servers into thinking you have licenses and either of those options always seemed to me indistinguishable from honeypots.
