Modded Switch console seller sentenced by Japanese courts in Nintendo's latest victory against piracy
Modded Switch console seller sentenced by Japanese courts in Nintendo's latest victory against piracy
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I didn't see anything in the article indicating whether or not the person sold them with games pre-loaded. If all he did was sell jailbroken Switches, that's not a victory. That's a loss of our rights to use and change our own hardware.
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The convicted man, identified as 58-year-old transportation businessman Fumihiro Otobe, was implicated in violating Nintendo’s trademark rights for soldering modchips to secondhand Switch motherboards and peddling them online for roughly $195 USD. The modified consoles are reported to have been bundled with 27 pirated games, but it’s unclear how many devices Otobe sold before being caught. Polygon (15/04/25)
As always, if you don't try to make money from, and/or distribute, pirated content then you have nothing to worry about. You haven't lost anything, you will still be able to modify your own Switch.
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Okay, I see. Weird, I don't remember that being in the article when I read it. Yeah, that was just dumb then. People who sell these things need to stop preloading them.
But now I need to look more into this, is there precedent for Nintendo going after people who sell Jailbroken devices without copyrighted content on them? I think if I ever tried to make a living like this, I would just avoid Nintendo all together. Well, anything 3DS or newer anyway. Those GBA mods these days are 🔥
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The victory is Nintendo's.
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