Tbf, I hope nintendo keeps going this route and punishing more and more its customers. After all, if you keep supporting a company that hates you so much, you deserve what you get.
Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’
Submitted 2 weeks ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to games@lemmy.world
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AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
CluckN@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t think Nintendbros will care. They already pay $120 to buy the same game twice.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Most of their customers don’t even know the Mig flash exists.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’m a filthy Switch pirate and I only knew of the name. I didn’t know what it was exactly or how it worked until the recent reporting about it.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
You buy Nintendo, you get Nintendo.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just nintendon’t
cm0002@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes Nintendo yes! I’m sure you won’t turn into a Sony after the OtherOS debacle, just keep doin what you’re doing! LMAO
Miaou@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
Thanks Nintendo, now I’m looking up what the mig flash is lol
Crankenstein@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Gotta love the Streisand effect.
simple@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Why is the title worded that way, he literally was pirating. It isn't 'Suspicions' to use a MIG cartridge.
raltoid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Because in the US and several other countries you can legally back up a cartridge that you have bought. Meaning it’s not piracy.
Goronmon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In that case it wouldn’t be piracy.
What about in this case?
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Even if that isnt legal (it is), but it will be circumvention of encryption at worst and recreation of protected algorithms, code and keys in a non-nintendo product at best ( and thats before talking about game cartridge content ).
Last i checked that is still illegal heheDarkMetatron@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
You may have the right to make a backup, but playing that backup on a non sectioned device or via non sectioned means is still a breach of the TOS and breaking the license terms of the game and/or console. Oh and it is in violation of the DMCA as far as I know, because to make the backup it is needed to circumvent copy protection, which is forbidden by the rules of the DMCA (and equal laws in other jurisdictions like Europe). You may own the cartridge, but you still only have a license (with very specific terms and rules) to use the software on it.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2 weeks ago
donuts@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Follow the link in the article to find out what really happened: www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch2/…/my2iylo/
I also posted this in another threads a few days ago:
MurrayL@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sadly you will get downvoted because Lemmy’s hateboner for Nintendo is more important than context
Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Luckily at the moment they have a lot more upvotes than downvotes. Probably because they are providing information and aside from the “you are stupid for breaking (a likely-predictable) TOS and expecting nothing to happen” judgment, it’s pretty neutral on passing judgment on the bigger argument at hand: whether this policy should be here in the first place.
I agree with your sentiment, at least, I think Lemmy unfortunately is too eager to namecall anyone who does not share the general popular opinions of the site, which is a shame because I often saw reasonable, civil takes that disagree with the popular opinion written out, and then a reasonable, civil reply to that disagreement… almost. The author just has to toss on some insult at the end. Feels bad to see. I clicked this post because I was genuinely interested in the news but I do have to avoid any kind of news around any big gaming corporation because I’m rather sick of nastiness in the comments, especially when backspacing on just one word per post would render the whole thing a rational discussion.
I say this as a member of the anti-corporate Lemmy hivemind, by the way.
Sophocles@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Things you should never get caught liking on Lemmy:
Nintendo
Windows
Auth-right, lib-right, or lib-left politics
A can of beans
Police
Man vs bear hypothetical CalyxOS
Etc.
katze@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
They didn’t even get downvoted, but you decided to get angry about this imaginary just in case. What’s wrong with you?
donuts@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah I was thinking the same, first few votes were down lol. Now you seem to catch the fire for pointing it out. Hope you care as much about votes as I do
overload@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
God this guy broke ToS while connected to the internet? Can’t MigSwitchs run offline? I thought it was just a cart dump.