NWS2U.com, one of the biggest and most popular websites for downloading pirated Switch games, has been taken down by U.S. authorities. This was one of the go-to places for gamers to download titles without needing to pay for them and install them on hacked Nintendo Switch consoles or emulators. If you go to the page today, you’ll see that an announcement has replaced its homepage with the logos of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD).
The warning says, “This domain has been seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in accordance with a seizure warrant issued pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § § 2323 issued by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia as part of a law enforcement operation and action by: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD).” As a result, would-be pirates would have a harder time finding ROMs they can use on their jailbroken Switches or PC and phone emulators.
