Surprise! Nintendo Tracked Down Alleged Switch Pirate in Arizona via Reddit Posts and Repair Orders

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• Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s some pretty bad opsec, using a single email address with the same nick.

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• SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Further evidence of why you use a dedicated alt for anything even vaguely sketch.

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  • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Even if you are not doing anything particularly sketchy, you still want to make a habit of using multiple unrelated email addresses and always using alts with new unrelated names.

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• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I expected him to be selling pirate Switches and/or games. Nope. They are suing him only for talking about it. Insane.

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    He was selling pirated games from his online store.

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    • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah I read this article on another post, I’m not sure that’s the whole story.

      From what I remember, he was running a few “shops”. These don’t actually sell games, but they can be accessed by a piece of homebrew software on the switch, and then you connect to the “shop” to download games directly to the device - this was done instead of manually copying install files to the SD card, installing, and then deleting the original files to save space; or instead of installing over USB. The shops were much easier, not least because removing the SD card to copy games from a PC required a reboot, and rebooting an OG hacked Switch could be kind of a pain.

      I think the “sales” he did were actually just donations that got you early access to titles that weren’t widely available yet. However, it’s generally when you start taking money for these things that the shit hits the fan and the hammer comes down.

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  • Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Uhhh… he literally moderated the r/SwitchPirates subreddit and had ties to multiple pirate shops that distributed the pirated games.

    I don’t support Nintendo’s lawsuits, but people are making it sound like they’re going after some random Joe who just mentioned pirating games in a comment or two. Unless you’re moderating one of the biggest Nintendo pirating communities or working to distribute pirated games, AND are really bad with op-sec, you’re probably fine.

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• Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hey Alexa, how do I vpn my shipping details?

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  • THX1138@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Alexa and vpn how ironic lol

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