Nintendo is seeking $4.5 million in a default judgment against a former moderator of the SwitchPirates subreddit, James C. Williams (also known as Archbox). The company claims Williams operated pirate game shops and distributed circumvention software that enabled Nintendo Switch piracy.
At first, this seems like the usual Nintendo crackdown on piracy. It resembles the $2.4 million settlement between the company and the Switch emulator Yuzu developers in 2024, also for copyright infringement, which led to the shutdown of the emulator's distribution. The same kind of agreement happened around a second emulator, Ryujinx, which saw the same fate as Yuzu.
