Wonderful news, Nintendo brings great justice

As someone who legitimately buys games, and has the incredible superhero ability to "not steal it", if it isn't to my liking, this comes as wonderful news. It may not stop these thieves, but it will at least hamper them.

Nintendo wins UK high court case to block piracy websites

UK internet providers must block access to websites which enable Switch game piracy, Nintendo has successfully argued in court.

The injunction requires five major UK ISPs - Sky, BT, EE, Talktalk and Virgin Media - to "block, or at least impede access" to four websites which help distribute pirated Switch games, modified hardware, or provide information on how to mod consoles for piracy reasons.

Nintendo has already taken steps to close the loophole used to install custom firmware, though in its claim said it was aware of ongoing attempts to hack the console's current system software.

The UK high court upheld Nintendo's claims that the listed websites had infringed on Nintendo trademarks, specifically targeted consumers in the UK and that there was no legal defence for modification of Switch hardware to enable piracy.

Good. Nothing wrong with that. 👍

This is great news

Won't somebody think of the home brew scene!?!

....Eh it'll be fine

Migrate to PC.

websites which

1) help distribute pirated Switch games,

2) modified hardware,

3) or provide information on how to mod consoles for piracy reasons.

1) "help distribute" is kind of vague

2) this is way overboard

3) Not a fan of blocking purely informational content in 99% of cases

I'm really not keen on this. I feel like copyright infringement is a matter for the companies concerned and there are existing legal channels to deal with this kind of stuff. This is a bit too close to corporate dictated censorship of mass communication.

Good news.

Since when is censorship of information to be good news? There’s a big difference between providing information (which does not break the law) and acting upon it, which does.

This is an incredibly dangerous slope to go down in principle. There’s a hell of a lot of information and ideology I vehemently disagree with on the web, but I’ll never advocate for its removal or blockage. That’s nuts.

I'm against piracy, but not at the expense of freedom to create, express one's self, and so on.

If people want to mod their hardware--be it car, computer, handheld console, or anything else--they should be allowed to do so.

And above all else, I don't like information being blocked simply to protect powerful, huge corporations from, for all intents and purposes, powerless individuals.

lol.. those getting upset that they can't get pirated copies or make their own quite as easy. There is a difference between modding your car or something like that as opposed to modding a console with the specific goal in mind to pirate software. Not that I care about the older stuff mind... I just find it funny to try and compare the two.

I believe in archiving games. Cause all those companies didn't give a shit to keep copies, its just business and many go under and shit lost to ages, If it wasn't for the work of archivists to put shit together, we would lose so much history.

Great, I can now buy classic games the moment Nintendo lists them to their eShop VC... whenever that happens, probably not for decades.

Edge Lords won't be happy about this...

So you don't own the hardware you bought then?

You should be able to do what you want to it, the only thing that is illegal is copyright infringement.

For example I hacked my ps3 and used it as a media player for years, that is not illegal in any way. I also run games over a network that I already owned because it was faster than the internal drive and BR drive, games like motorstorm run 10x better doing that, that is also not illegal.

**** Nintendo telling you how you can use your own hardware.

Boy does this thread prove it.

Oop, here come the Nintendo-bendover-boys, queuing up to present as usual.

Good for Nintendo. Not sure how it's good for us.

Will they use their dormant IPs, give us a proper VC, and make their games work online now?

Nintendo shills are hilarious.

I can't wait for the rage on this one: NoA is now targeting ANOTHER pirate site.

Isn't this akin to killing cockroaches? Aren't they off-setting loss prevention from piracy by actually fighting piracy? Wouldn't it be better to, I dunno... put their entire Virtual Console catalogue back on the Switch, so we can start buying Clu Clu Land at 5 dollars again?

I swear, what if a company (Nintendo or otherwise) sues a pirate site linked to organized crime (Italian Mafia/Russian Mafia/Chinese Triads/Japanese Yakuza/Irish Mob)?

Still got my rom archives, Nintendo.

good for them

Rise my fellow pirates, rise to greater heights

Speaking of VC, that would be better indeed. As long as Nintendo keeps their legacy games to themselves and don't offer their fans any way to play or purchase them, I hope pirates and their roms prosper. If Nintendo doesn't care to give their fans with money ready access to their shit, I'm glad there are pirates who do.

I could wait for years hoping they put the specific NES or SNES game I want to play on Switch Online sometime in the future. Or I could just play it now elsewhere. Not the hardest decision to make.

A lot of bootlickers in this thread.

93BlackHawk93 has been spotted! Nice to see you have return.

Good luck with that.

This is the way it should be done - Nintendo addressing the problem at source, through the courts. What they shouldn't be doing is pressing foreign governments to use national resources to block access to chunks of the internet from its own citizens over civil law complaints.

A true point. A lot of these sites have links to more neferous stuff, with the sites themselves acting as attempted criminal acts on the users frequenting them.

Nintendo are nice guys barring the whole forced imprisonment and animals fighting for sport aimed at children stuff.

Already have all their legacy games on a HDD. Too late ninty.

You know, I used to be strongly against piracy, but considering how stingy Nintendo has been, not just with their legacy games, I honestly don't blame people for pirating them. I'd go so far as to say they created this problem.

I am against pirating new games or games readily available.

But I support pirating for any game that is virtually impossible to find or not on sale. I don’t see the issue. No one is losing money.

If Nintendo and other companies refuse to sell their old games for whatever reason, then it is fair game in my eyes.

I would gladly pay money to Nintendo to play Pokémon Yellow on my iPhone, but they don’t have it available. So until then, I’ll do it for free.

Thats the key. Maybe Nintendo hire these sites and use them to find out WHAT should be on their eshop. If people could get the games legally they probably would. If anyone is getting is downloading games for free and the games are available on the eShop than yest Nintendo should go at them full force.