Nintendo files two lawsuits over piracy
Nintendo United States has taken action against the hackers by filing two lawsuits in court.
The company wants to stop the spread of software that can turn off the copyright protection system that will allow Switch users to pirate games.
The software was created by a group of hackers called Team Xecuter, but it wasn’t them that Nintendo sued, but a reseller who sold the illegal software. The lawsuit mentions alleged illegal sales by the operator of the UberChips website along with several other websites.
The first lawsuits were brought against Tom Dilts Jr. and UberChips for selling a set of tools that modified the Nintendo Switch to play pirated games.
Currently the UberChips website cannot be accessed with a notification on its page stating that if they cancel and refund all pre-orders of SX Core and SX Core lite, both items are illegal Switch modification tools.
The second lawsuit was directed against several resellers for selling various illegal tools to modify consoles such as the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS, and Gameboy Advance.
Nintendo requested that all these websites be permanently closed and demanded damages of US $ 2,500 for each violation of piracy. Nintendo said if the product is very detrimental to the company, especially now that the tool has been widely circulated.
This isn’t the first time Nintendo has clashed with hackers and software pirates. In December 2021, Nintendo sued Mikel Euskaldunak for selling a Nintendo Switch hack tool. The company has also sued the RomUniverse website for distributing pirated software. Then in January, Nintendo won a court against Sergio Mojarro regarding the sale of Team Xecuter software and memory cards containing pirated games.
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