The person was running a pirate game selling website based in surprise Arizona named the same as the username that they were posting and moderating (a switch piracy community) on Reddit and the email address associated with their Reddit account was the same one they used to correspond with Nintendo about getting stuff repaired which was sent to their address in surprise Arizona.
Evaluate and make changes to your own life as you see necessary.
Hmm…is Reddit selling email addresses, or were they compelled to provide them by law enforcement?
Lol Feddit
That’s what you call an opsec fail
Yes, but it is also a bit scary / dystopian that a $62 billion company would go to such great lengths to have one of their own customers thrown in jail for using the product that he paid for in a way that wasn’t hurting anyone.
Welcome to the mundane, realistic cyberpunk dystopia, hope you paid attention to more than the flashy surface level marketing.
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.
Yep. He sold ROMs. I have no sympathy for privateers in “the scene.”
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!
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.
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.
Hardly dystopian. They just had someone who understands how tech works on staff.
Yeah. Rule #1 of doing illegal shit on social media. Don’t tie that account to your identity.
Did a shit job being a pirate then if he doxxed himself albeit through many clues
i swear nintendo is the only company that manages to have people deflecting any form of villification, here or literally anywhere on the internet. Truly incredible, people really love them their pokemans and tubby egg rabbits
Pointing out what a moron this guy was is not the same thing as agreeing with Nintendo’s shitty legal practices.
Changing the topic is typical everytime Nintendo’s legal hawks are reported doing anything
Where was the topic change?
If anything, you’re the one being disingenuous.
“Pointing out what a moron this guy was is not the same thing as agreeing with Nintendo’s shitty legal practices.”
We know what these corporations will do, they’ve been very clear about it.
At a minimum don’t go advertising that you’re copying their roms and selling them. This guy advertised to the world who he is and what he was doing.
Is Nintendo still shitty? Yes. But geez, don’t make it blindingly easy to figure out who you are.
What are you talking about? Everyone hates Nintendo for this shit.
nintendrones are the most brainwashed corporate bootlickers I’ve ever encountered
Fr fanboying over a corporation is the most sad thing I’ve seen in a while
Haven’t read much cyberpunk lit, then.
