The lawsuit between Nintendo and Modded Hardware has been settled, with the site's operator agreeing to a final judgment of $2 million. The proposed settlement includes a broad permanent injunction that bans operator Ryan Daly from selling, distributing, or even linking to circumvention devices such mod chips and hacked consoles. The defendant also agreed to transfer his website domain to Nintendo and destroy any remaining circumvention devices.

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[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 16 hours ago

Thanks Nintendo. Because of this stupid lawsuit, i figured out how to mod my Switch.

I will never buy another nintendo product, they have shown they are a horrible company.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago

“Agrees” and “forced under duress” are not the same thing. An agreement before both, I think.

They were sued. Nintendo won. The people don’t have a chance against corporations.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Jesus christ Nintendo

Edit 16 hours later: This makes me want to sell my Switch outright. I rarely play anything on it, usually I just game on my PC or N3DSXL (which is modded, naturally).

[–] __siru__@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I thought the reason that Nintendo was always able to win these copyright accusations was due to Japan's strict copyright laws. But if I read correctly, this was fought over in a US court, or am I misunderstanding something?

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 22 hours ago

Methode would not be too different in a US court (it's pro-corporate instead of merely strict) but result is the same.