Nintendo wins lawsuit against player who kept streaming pirated Switch games.

[Frickinfrik]

Idiot was pretty much asking for it. Dumbest pirate on the planet.

 

[Max]

He was trying to break the world record for the Nintendo lawsuit speedrun

 

[Kremiso]

Idiot was pretty much asking for it. Dumbest pirate on the planet.

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all the pirate code 'rules' flushed in the toilet

 

[The_Real_Thing]

"Should have done more research on me. You might run a corporation, I run the streets."

I winced when I read this part, holy hell. Pretty sure this kid couldn't conquer Sesame Street. I would have spent whatever it took to nail this absolute dork, fair play to Nintendo.

 

[qw90700]

Well, if the games were not even released... I suppose the crime can be considered worse, because he possessed and streamed some proprietary software not still in the market, so, basically almost an industrial theft... because he probably monetized those streams (meaning he was doing money from that "exclusive"). And that is another level than streaming old games.

Anyways, the boy seems to be not very smart not going to the court, and probably the judge did the best he could for him.

Yep it can get worse but not necessarily. It fundamentally breaks Copyright Infringement but in certain cases the company can make a case on early-release of the product did hurt their potential sales, it was considered a corparate theft, it ruined a company's trade secrets, it was a severe attack on what a Nintendo legally can protect and all so Nintendo could easily persuade the judge that he broke 8 additional rules in related aspect of law that is basically related to how a company can legally make a fair business, and then additionally to Copyright Infringement he would be forced to pay how much potential profit he made Nintendo to lose and additional money for other rules he broke and it can take millions. But then if the victim cannot pay that much so Nintendo would end up getting nothing Nintendo known to ask thousands when they could ask millions. In this case Nintendo didn't dilly-dally and reduced their own expenses and didn't pursue further likely because he couldn't pay that much so they settled with "good enough" money and called it a day lol.

 

[Alarond]

Yep it can get worse but not necessarily. It fundamentally breaks Copyright Infringement but in certain cases the company can make a case on early-release of the product did hurt their potential sales, it was considered a corparate theft, it ruined a company's trade secrets, it was a severe attack on what a Nintendo legally can protect and all so Nintendo could easily persuade the judge that he broke 8 additional rules in related aspect of law that is basically related to how a company can legally make a fair business, and then additionally to Copyright Infringement he would be forced to pay how much potential profit he made Nintendo to lose and additional money for other rules he broke and it can take millions. But then if the victim cannot pay that much so Nintendo would end up getting nothing Nintendo known to ask thousands when they could ask millions. In this case Nintendo didn't dilly-dally and reduced their own expenses and didn't pursue further likely because he couldn't pay that much so they settled with "good enough" money and called it a day lol.

"in certain cases the company can make a case on early-release of the product did hurt their potential sales"

Yeah, that's the point. I don't think the stream of that guy was "that" popular to make some damage, but that could be a real situation if Nintendo just let anyone do the same (downloading pirated pre-released games and streaming them) over and over.

I'm sure Nintendo do not want to literally crush that rascal, because... well, he's probably just the typical teen with a bad attitude, and because they don't want to hurt their "corporate image" destroying a young person, but... that guy seems to need some correction (his statements bragging about "the streets and having thousands of channels" are too innocent and lame to be even interesting to comment). I hope he learn some lesson, before it is too late for him.

 

[qw90700]

Yeah, that's the point. I don't think the stream of that guy was "that" popular to make some damage, but that could be a real situation if Nintendo just let anyone do the same (downloading pirated pre-released games and streaming them) over and over.

Yep. Recently Nintendo has been very angry and dilly-dally sues people just to make an example of what happens to people when they fuck with Nintendo, and Nintendo operates like a legal international terror organization with yakuza mentality who have a very good legal team covering their ass lol. It is said that Nintendo recently plan to take down some rom websites that shares any pirated copy of their game. They even attack modders and fan artists like a rabid dog.

The profile of their legal team also works like a criminal. They often disregard laws in the country that the criminal is a citizen of, they demand whatever that is unrelated to law and somehow magically believe they can persuade the judge to do what there is no rule for it in their law. They even attempted to sue a person from a random country named Mario and he wanted to name his chain of supermarkets "Super Mario" and obviously Nintendo did lose without any chance to win because the law doesn't work like that lol.

they don't want to hurt their "corporate image" destroying a young person

I assure you Nintendo has no care to have a "good company" image. All the image they care about is "I won't let anyone fuck with me" so if the teen is rich AF they would pursue to take millions from the teen's parents, if not his granma, even from their aunt lol. They literally see legal strike as part of their business to make money and they are so glad their mindless cult floats them up and popularises their rubbish so they can sell their rubbish consoles and games, and this popularity begets many opportunities for people to break laws against Nintendo so they can sue them to make more money.

Nintendo is sensitive that people take what Nintendo own and uses it in the way they don't like, and it is good for Nintendo when even fan content is done and it breaks law. At most they legally take down the content but if the person made money from it or it is something that will make them lose money and potential profit it is when Nintendo lose their shit and wanna get back the money people get by using Nintendo. From Nintendo's POV it would hurt their image more if they actually didn't take any legal action for anyone who break law against them, and in the ideal Nintendo world they would actually kill anyone who dropped a negative review of one of their game lol.