Alexander Calvin (Alex Calvin), Friday, November 20, 2020, GMT
Mario Maker once again fights against the pirates.
Nintendo is taking an online store to court to sell software that circumvents the “technical protection measures” of the Switch.
The holder of the platform has filed a lawsuit against Le Hoang Minh in the Western District of Washington (as Polygon discovered), claiming that Amazon sellers allow people to use its RCM Loader product to jailbreak game consoles. These USB devices allow users to play software that is not allowed on the Switch.
Nintendo initially sent a DMCA notice to Minh, who issued a counterclaim. Then, the platform owner must sue the seller, otherwise, Amazon will have to relist the RCM loaders.
Nintendo stated that by removing its protection measures, RCM Loader “caused widespread piracy of Nintendo’s copyrighted video games.”
The platform described video game piracy as a “serious and worsening international problem.”
Nintendo hopes that the court will prevent Le Hoang Minh from selling the RCM loaders and compensate US$2,500 for each infringement.
This is the latest lawsuit taken by Nintendo to eliminate piracy. As early as 2015, the company won a lawsuit in Milan over an Italian company PC Box, which was importing equipment that supports piracy. Previously, the European Court of Justice ruled that homemade software used in the console may be illegal.
