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Follow the link in the article to find out what really happened: https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch2/comments/1lcqw4d/comment/my2iylo/
I also posted this in another threads a few days ago:
Nah, the OP of one reddit thread admitted he tried more than just his backups:
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Dude is a prolific poster in Switch hacking communities and he used an account which he previously used with a hacked Switch 1
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He admits trying the migswitch with the Switch 2 and it starting downloading something.
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They got an online ban, so offline games and such still work.
You can agree or disagree whether piracy should be legal or whether backup copies are permitted (depends on jurisdiction), but this dude obviously played with fire and got burnt.
TL;DR: don’t be stupid and get banned for breaking ToS (whether you agree with it or not)
edit: more context: https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch2/comments/1lcqw4d/comment/my2kigh/
Sadly (at the time of writing) you’re just getting downvoted, because Lemmy’s hateboner for Nintendo is more important than context
They didn’t even get downvoted, but you decided to get angry about this imaginary scenario just in case. What’s wrong with you?
I was sitting at like, -2 when they made that comment so not imaginary. Please try to give the benefit of the doubt before jumping to conclusions
I was sitting at like, -2
Oh no 😱
It’s funny that in lemmy vs reddit threads people always bring up that there is no karma farming, but then you see this nonsense.
Stop moving the goalposts. Nobody cares about the votes themselves.
This is about observing a fact and recounting it to someone who’s misinformed about the situation and even has the audicity to gaslight someone over it
Yeah I was thinking the same, first few votes were down lol. Now you seem to catch the fire for pointing it out. Hope you care as much about votes as I do (which is not at all)
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Thanks Nintendo, now I’m looking up what the mig flash is lol
You buy Nintendo, you get Nintendo.
Tbf, I hope nintendo keeps going this route and punishing more and more its customers. After all, if you keep supporting a company that hates you so much, you deserve what you get.
If you try to go online with a flashcart, you’re an idiot and I have no sympathy.
That’s victim blaming. That should be illegal (to brick these devices)
It’s not bricked. It’s just banned from online services. Sony and Microsoft do this too, for the record.
And that should be illegal, since there’s no other online services provider for those devices.
You can’t even setup one yourself.
God I hope EU will slap them like they slapped Apple forcing it to provide alternative app stores.
Why is the title worded that way, he literally was pirating. It isn’t ‘Suspicions’ to use a MIG cartridge.
Because in the US and several other countries you can legally back up a cartridge that you have bought. In that case it wouldn’t be piracy.
You may have the right to make a backup, but playing that backup on a non sectioned device or via non sectioned means is still a breach of the TOS and breaking the license terms of the game and/or console. Oh and it is in violation of the DMCA as far as I know, because to make the backup it is needed to circumvent copy protection, which is forbidden by the rules of the DMCA (and equal laws in other jurisdictions like Europe). You may own the cartridge, but you still only have a license (with very specific terms and rules) to use the software on it.
Using modified hardware might break other regulations or terms of services, but using a backup copy of a copy you own that hardware is not piracy in several jursidictions. Which is the answer to the question in the comment.
Nearly all jurisdictions have DMCA like laws which clearly say that circumventing copy protection is against the law. So in those jurisdictions it is piracy to use a backup of a copy protected game and I am very sure that a map of the countries where the Switch 2 can be officially bought and a map with countries who have thoses laws will produce a lot of matches. Maybe I am wrong, but I highly doubt it.
Even if that is legal (it isnt), but it will be circumvention of encryption at worst and recreation of protected algorithms, code and keys in a non-nintendo product at best ( and thats before talking about game cartridge content ).
Last i checked that is still illegal hehe
