While I completely agree with the general hacker consensus that you should be able to do whatever you want with your hardware, up to and including buying and selling mod services, I cannot for the life of me understand this guy's thinking.
He's running a business modding people's devices, Nintendo catches on and sends him a cease and desist, and so he stops. Congrats, you have narrowly avoided certain financial ruin, and made a bit of cash in the process!
All forms of business and economic-self-preservation logic would tell this guy to continue ceasing and desisting, but he opens the shop back up shortly after and Nintendo, as they are known to do, sues his ass off.
What exactly did he think was going to happen here?
platevoltage · 11m ago
I'm inclined to agree with you. I modded my Switch. I steal from Nintendo whenever possible. I think they are a terrible company, but this guy should have known better.
like_any_other · 1h ago
So manufacturers can remotely brick, downgrade, and spy on us, but modifying our own devices is illegal. Consumer rights are in an unbelievably sad place.
cyberpunk · 51m ago
2 million seems like a lot; but he was selling kits to enable piracy, this wasn’t just some hacker playing with his own electronics.
They mention another guy in the article who has to pay nintendo 25-30% of his salary for the rest of his life too. Bananas.
rpdillon · 5m ago
Yeah, companies that treat customers this way earn a permaban from me. I got my whole family into Switch back in 2016. Now? We're all on Steam. The store actually loads properly, the selection is better, games are cheaper, I don't worry about being able to play my games on the next console, and I can hack my Steam Deck to my hearts content, and I can play games from flatpak and GOG.
It's a mad world that Switch 2 is the best selling console of all time.
like_any_other · 44m ago
The right to modify one's own device includes the right to hire someone else to do it. Meanwhile corporations don't pay a dime for all the fair use and interoperability their DRM prevents, and whatever the hell we want to call the printer ink and tracking dot situation.
He's running a business modding people's devices, Nintendo catches on and sends him a cease and desist, and so he stops. Congrats, you have narrowly avoided certain financial ruin, and made a bit of cash in the process!
All forms of business and economic-self-preservation logic would tell this guy to continue ceasing and desisting, but he opens the shop back up shortly after and Nintendo, as they are known to do, sues his ass off.
What exactly did he think was going to happen here?
They mention another guy in the article who has to pay nintendo 25-30% of his salary for the rest of his life too. Bananas.
It's a mad world that Switch 2 is the best selling console of all time.
disgusting the way they go after people