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Nintendo tracked down an alleged Switch pirate by following a trail of posts and repair orders, and now it’s asking a court to award $4.5 million in damages. According to court filings, Nintendo of America accuses James “Archbox” Williams of running multiple piracy storefronts, moderating forums that promoted pirated games, and offering paid access to stolen libraries. Investigators tied the Archbox name to email addresses linked to Nintendo repair orders shipped to… Read more

Nintendo’s Latest Legal Victory Against Modding Nintendo has once again proven that it will aggressively defend its intellectual property from anyone who attempts to undermine it. A federal judge in Washington recently ordered Ryan Michael Daley to pay the company $2 million in damages after he was found guilty of selling modded Nintendo Switch consoles, flash cartridges, and modchips through his site Modded Hardware. The ruling also permanently bans him from engaging… Read more

Disclaimer: I am totally joking about piracy. Never would I ever. We do NOT promote that here.  For years I convinced myself that physical media was dead, that shelves stacked with DVDs were nothing more than a relic of the early 2000s, and that streaming would carry us into a brighter, more convenient future. I told myself I didn’t need discs anymore. Everything I wanted would always be a few clicks away,… Read more