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That's some pretty bad opsec, using a single email address with the same nick.
I expected him to be selling pirate Switches and/or games. Nope. They are suing him only for talking about it. Insane.
He was selling pirated games. It's in the second paragraph of the article.
for allegedly violating its digital copyrights by selling pirated copies of Switch games.
Yeah I read this article on another post, I'm not sure that's the whole story.
From what I remember, he was running a few "shops". These don't actually sell games, but they can be accessed by a piece of homebrew software on the switch, and then you connect to the "shop" to download games directly to the device - this was done instead of manually copying install files to the SD card, installing, and then deleting the original files to save space; or instead of installing over USB. The shops were much easier, not least because removing the SD card to copy games from a PC required a reboot, and rebooting an OG hacked Switch could be kind of a pain.
I think the "sales" he did were actually just donations that got you early access to titles that weren't widely available yet. However, it's generally when you start taking money for these things that the shit hits the fan and the hammer comes down.
Basically yeah, don't take money at all when doing anything like this. And if you do, dont tie your credit card to your online pirating name lol
I hope the scene learns from this. Use a VPN, have a completely different identity. Use a different browser, use a different handle, and don't use any persobal info. If you are taking donations, use crypto.
Corpo's are waging a war against peasants, we gonna need to do better.
They will absolutely ruin your life given a chance.
Act like it, folks.
Hey Alexa, how do I vpn my shipping details?
Alexa and vpn how ironic lol
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