To say that Nintendo has been involved in the war against piracy is an understatement. Now there are 2 new examples of the company’s latest attempts to put an end to piracy. One of them is a Nintendo Switch modder that enables piracy. Another is the moderator of a Nintendo piracy Reddit group.
Nintendo has been confirmed to be suing Ryan Daly, a modder who Nintendo claims runs a company called Modded Hardware. According to Nintendo’s lawsuit, they warned Daly in March to stop selling modded Switch consoles and MIG switches, which allowed people to play pirated Switch games on unmodded hardware. Daly was also accused of offering a mail-in service where customers could send their Switch consoles to be modified and receive pirated games pre-installed. Nintendo claims that Daly agreed to stop, but continued his activities anyway. Nintendo accuses Daly of 6 charges, including copyright infringement and “trafficking in circumvention devices”.
Nintendo is also suing James Williams. Nintendo accuses Williams of being “the operator, supervisor and driving force behind several Pirate Shops, through which the defendant offered vast libraries of pirated Nintendo Switch games.” Williams also moderated the r/SwitchPirates group on Reddit, where he used the name Archbox and, according to Nintendo, became a place where Williams would direct users to his pirate shops, as well as provide technical advice on how people could mod their Switch consoles and play pirate games.
The lawsuit also states that Williams openly admitted that what he was doing was illegal, even saying that he openly called himself a “pirate” who refuses to pay for Nintendo games. Nintendo’s lawsuit says Williams ran 4 pirate shops. Only 1 of them is still active. Nintendo is seeking financial damages for Williams, as well as an order to shut down his remaining pirated stores and related social media accounts.
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