Nintendo, which is currently forecasting net sales of $8.4 billion and operating profit of $2.4 billion in 2024, is continuing its course angry tough crackdown to those who modify or emulate its systems and games. His latest goal, about a story of Game fileis the Reddit offshoot SwitchPirates, which is simultaneously asking to subpoena information from a variety of companies, including Reddit, to identify those involved in so-called “pirate shops.”
The Japanese company, which generated $16 billion in 2021, is taking this step as a follow-up It's about the case against the subreddit's moderator, James “Archbox” Williamsclaims it has discovered that many others are involved in the alleged piracy and is seeking to identify them by gaining access to business records from Cloudflare, Discord, Github, Google and Reddit, as well as the domain companies Name Cheap, Go Daddy and Tucows .
This move aims to track the closure of Modded Hardware, a website that Archbox was allegedly associated with, by identifying all other parties involved. In order to do this, Nintendo is requesting access to the information of the subreddit's 200,000 members.
Accordingly the court filethe manufacturer of the 77 billion dollars Lifetime Revenue Switch Console “learned various details about the Pirate Shops and about the defendant's involvement therein.” The document continues,
Among other things, we learned that the defendant was active on numerous Discord servers in connection with the pirate shops. We also learned that Defendent was the main moderator of the Reddit “SwitchPirates” community and appeared to be the owner of a Github account directly linked to these activities. In almost all of these capacities, the defendant acted as “Archbox” or a similar variant of that name…
During the course of our investigation, we also became aware of several other online actors who apparently played a role in the pirate shops. However, we were unable to determine the identities of the locations of these other actors with sufficient certainty to identify them in the original complaint. NOA therefore did not include these individuals in the lawsuit…in the expectation that ordinary discovery…would reveal the identity and location of these actors.
However, since Williams allegedly evaded Nintendo's attempt to serve him and then failed to appear in court, Nintendo argues in its filing that this means they could not find these identities through discovery and is therefore requesting the subpoenas. The company is currently worth 67 billion dollarssays these will be “limited in scope” and will aim to “identify the account holders and sources of all payments made and, where appropriate, compile aggregated traffic and access statistics for Pirate Shops websites and associated online locations.”
Nintendo is asking Google for access to Google Drive and Gmail data, but is not specific about its intentions regarding Discord. The situation on Reddit is described as follows:
Reddit, Inc. operates a social media platform that allows users to post, often using pseudonyms, in various forums known as communities or “subreddits.” The defendant was a main moderator of the SwitchPirates community under the name “Archbox,” which had more than 190,000 members. Nintendo has reason to believe that other accounts active in the SwitchPirates Community may also have been controlled by Defendant or may be traceable to other individuals who worked with Defendant.
With 146 million consoles currently sold, the Nintendo Switch is the third most successful console of all time. It's likely to overtake the second-place console with 154 million, the Nintendo DS, over the next year.
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