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Surprise! Nintendo Tracked Down Alleged Switch Pirate in Arizona via Reddit Posts and Repair Orders (www.ign.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He didn't just use the product he paid for in a way that doesn't hurt anybody, he sold pirated Nintendo Switch games. This is literally at the start of the article.

It then becomes very easy to say he took revenue from Nintendo (the "they wouldn't have bought it if it cost money" argument doesn't apply), but above all selling pirated material is a shitty thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yep. He sold ROMs. I have no sympathy for privateers in "the scene."

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Definitely. It's not even about defending Nintendo.

I hate people who try to profit off of privacy when piracy is available for free.

It reminds me of my university days when people would be selling PDFs of course textbooks...just email a copy of the file!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Your typo confused the hell out of me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't think he quite did that, actually. From memory he ran a few "shops", but these didn't really sell anything and were just download portals to install pirated games directly from the internet (rather than downloading to a PC first and then copying to an SD card or installing over USB). However, I think he did take donations for early access to new titles, which would have been hard to get elsewhere at first.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

However, I think he did take donations for early access to new titles,

When video game companies accept money for early access to their games, that's a sale. You give them money, they give you access. I'm not sure why that wouldn't also apply here.

From your description, unless you were allowed to donate $0 for access, that sounds a lot like a sale to me.