Spyke
The Octonaut
mander.xyz

They are targeting exactly one person that they are in litigation with. I am shocked that Kotaku would misrepresent something in the lede and then contradict themselves later.

However, because Williams allegedly evaded Nintendo’s attempt to serve him, and then didn’t appear in court, Nintendo argues in its filing that this meant they were unable to find these identities through discovery, and as such is seeking the subpoenas. The company, currently worth $67 billion, says these will be “limited in scope,” designed to identify “the account holders and the sources of any payments made, and where applicable, aggregate traffic and access statistics for Pirate Shops’ websites and related online locations.”

TL;DR: Stop trying to make money from piracy. Dolphin is alive and well after 20 years of emulating Nintendo products. Not sure how people aren't connecting the dots with what Nintendo chase and what they don't.

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Scrubblesreply
poptalk.scrubbles.tech

Exactly. The whole "emulating the switch" thing for money isn't just emulation. Emulation has always had a touch of piracy because it involves hacking items to run old games on newer hardware but with the goal of preservation.

Charging anything at all makes it pure piracy, and doing it on their latest games obviously is playing with fire. If you are charging money to play Nintendo's latest games, I don't care if you try to label it emulation, that's pure piracy and you just drew a massive target on your back.

Making a copy of a CD to give to a friend is an annoyance to a company, but you probably aren't going to be singled out. Making 1000 copies of the CD and charging $2 for each is obviously piracy and you're going to catch their notice.

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Kellyreply
lemmy.world

They are targeting exactly one person that they are in litigation with.

I don't know about that, they seem to be saying they are looking for his associates (emphasis mine):

In the course of our investigation, we also became aware of multiple other online actors who appeared to have a role in the Pirate Shops. However, we were unable to determine the identity of locations of these other actors with a sufficient degree of certainty to name them in the initial complaint.

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However, because Williams allegedly evaded Nintendo’s attempt to serve him, and then didn’t appear in court, Nintendo argues in its filing that this meant they were unable to find these identities through discovery, and as such is seeking the subpoenas.

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The Octonautreply
mander.xyz

That's what I meant about Kotaku's misrepresentation. Read the paragraph you didn't quote, and they are saying they believe the guy was using multiple accounts. That's what they mean by "these identities", which news which isn't a glorified gossip rag have been pretty clear on.

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Kellyreply
lemmy.world

Do you mean this quote from Nintendo"s submission to the court?

Nintendo has reason to believe that other accounts active in the SwitchPirates community may also have been controlled by Defendant, or else reflect other individuals who have worked alongside Defendant.

This is a very open ended statement, its not limited to alt accounts at all.

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ogeist
lemmy.world

" You are making me lose money!" Said Scrooge the company worth 67 Billion.

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