This is a conspiracy theory I’m completely behind. With all the moves Nintendo has made recently this was the first thing I thought when Internet Archive was compromised
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misk@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
In my head this is a retribution for financing hackers that attacked Internet Archive and nobody can convince me otherwise
ronflex@lemmy.world 5 days ago
technomad@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
Nintendo was responsible for that?
misk@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
The Dude
helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 days ago
So you’re just making wild assumptions?
Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
That’s what I’m seeing, unless a documented source eventually shows up.
misk@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
What was wild about this assumption?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 days ago
yes, I assume that
pivot_root@lemmy.world 5 days ago
You can believe what you want, but there’s absolutely no way you would be correct. Any large company sponsoring a cyber attack, if caught, would be nailed to the wall and made an example of. The extreme risks are simply not worth the comparatively small reward of reducing a tiny fraction of piracy.
A more realistic and reasonable avenue would have been to sponsor the companies going after IA for copyright infringement as a result of them loaning out unlimited digital copies of books without DRM.
misk@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
This is a very valid point, yet companies do shady stuff all the time and some even get caught via subpoenas and such. Nintendo can do it in a way that will never be noticeable on their books for sure.
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
For those curious, this account on Xitter claimed responsibility. Their stated reasons are indeed ridiculous, but I don’t at all have a hard time believing that people can be that misguided.