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Nintendo targets Reddit pirates in piracy crackdown (overkill.wtf)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (5 children)

Target them all you want, the links are on gdrive and mega and the owners will just move to advertising them somewhere else, Tumblr, throwaway eBay listings, Spotify playlists,... here.

Entire romsets for gb, gbc, gba, N64, SNES, etc have all been on piratebay for over a decade, not to mention the 4-5 300Gb+ curated sets out there... wherever they are.

Good luck there, Nintenbros. Keep swinging that axe. We'll keep growing heads.

It also helps that the golden age is over and each system now only gets around 10 or so exclusives worth a shit so there's less Switch games needed for a good set compared to past generations. Thanks, Nintendo. Quality over quantity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

It also helps that the golden age is over

Even the stone age is coming to an end - in favor of clay dicks. Talking about games.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

The main thing they are trying to do is make it more difficult to find this stuff via google, which tbh is still easy without reddit.

But even Switch homebrew has been a pain. Most of it is one off software made years ago because no sane dev wanted to actually keep up with all the firmware releases and limited control of CFW. Github/Gitlab repos keep getting banned left and right for tools not even related to piracy.

3DS has full fledged apps with teams behind everything and HShop which makes it very easy for everyone. Switch still doesn't have a definitive method of handling NSP/XCIs, and all the auto download internet repos are invite only to hide from Nintendo.

I'm really hoping someone finds some serious hardware bypass in their next console after what they did to the emulation scene. They really deserve to go through the insane R4 piracy age all over again for nuking everything online.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Not to mention discord channels you have to be invited to.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago (13 children)

The big ones:

Now Nintendo is seeking the court’s approval to actually subpoena Reddit for user records. These records, if shared, could identify additional moderators or users tied to the r/SwitchPirates subreddits. Nintendo argues that these records are critical to building their case against others in the alleged piracy ...

In addition to requesting records from Reddit, Nintendo's filing also makes appeals for information from other companies, including domain registrars such as Namecheap and GoDaddy, along with firms such as Cloudflare, Github, Google, and Discord.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

Subpoenaing Reddit for user records because some guy emulated a videogame made for your crappy handheld console.

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