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[Dacvak]

Several sites including some not related to Nintendo software:

• nsw2u.com
• nswdl.com
• game-2u.com
• bigngame.com
• ps4pkg.com
• ps4pkg.net
• mgnetu.com

I'm all for taking down rom sites that are hosting modern games, but there is no way in hell there was anywhere close to $170 million worth of loss lol

 

[MayauMiao]

I'm all for taking down rom sites that are hosting modern games, but there is no way in hell there was anywhere close to $170 million worth of loss lol

They probably estimate the loss of potential sales based on the number of downloads since these sites do keep logs.

 

[ReyBrujo]

Yep, that's what they do. That's the way they find damages, just like Nintendo did with Yuzu regarding TotK. One download is one sale loss, and maybe a judge might find that reasoning correct since for each people who might have not bought it someone else might have shared his download with someone else.

 

[bender]

• ps4pkg.com
• ps4pkg.net

Fucking greedy ass Sony mother fuckers...

 

[AREYOUOKAY?]

Fucking greedy ass Sony mother fuckers...

Anything to keep Bloodborne away from PC.

 

[Noah_A_S]

As part of the actions announced today, the FBI has obtained authorization to seize the domain of multiple sites, to include nsw2u.com, nswdl.com, game-2u.com, bigngame.com, ps4pkg.com, ps4pkg.net, and mgnetu.com. These domains hosted and facilitated access to the pirated video games. Anyone visiting these sites will now view a seizure banner that notifies them the domain has been seized by federal authorities.

• https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/fiel...lanta-seizes-major-video-game-piracy-websites

I don't understand why they took down websites that deal in downloads for PS4 fPKG files. It doesn't seem like it's Nintendo's business. Sony is not Nintendo, ya feel?

Edit: Upon closer inspection, the press release says nothing about Nintendo or Sony, but rather FBI Atlanta.

 

[SNG32]

They going for the jugular this generation.

They can go for the jugular all they want all they are doing is just trying to slow it down. The switch 2 tech is almost 3 generations behind computers get better CPUs and GPUs every year eventually there will be emulation and Switch 2 Roms and now with A.I it may happen faster. This has been happening ever since the Zsnes and Snes9x days. That's why I always said its always better for Nintendo not to fight PC and embrace it and make money from it. Because eventually it will get cracked open. Look at PS3 people never thought it would be possible for it to have an emulator because of the hardware and now we have RPCS3 and now Shadps4 is getting better everyday. Atleast Sony is being proactive and putting these games on PC which takes the incentives in creating emulators. I understand Nintendo protecting there IP but to some of their business practices there's coders and developers out there with ambition to access their games on their own terms.

 

[Noah_A_S]

I'm honestly getting some real "Hydra" vibes from this situation.

I don't think they'll be able to stop video game piracy.

No one can really stop it.

"Cut off one head, two more shall take its place."

The internet will find a way. It always does.

 

[KINGMOKU]

The fun aspect is that people that most hate Nintendo are the same people you see in these kind of threads always… I don't get how you hate a company so much an at the same time are so worried about old Nintendo games preservation at the same time.

It's actually like this;

"Fuck Nintendo and their shitty hardware, anti-consumer, boring games, attacking freedom, blah, blah, blah".

After posting said drivel, they switch pages to steal the software they proclaim to loathe, from a company they proclaim to loathe.

In reality, they are just a bunch of whiny, broke bastards, who get a hard-on for Animal crossing characters, like the legion of other goobers they "hate, so, so much."

Cheap, indignant cunts, the lot of em.

 

[Mister Wolf]

They can go for the jugular all they want all they are doing is just trying to slow it down. The switch 2 tech is almost 3 generations behind computers get better CPUs and GPUs every year eventually there will be emulation and Switch 2 Roms and now with A.I it may happen faster. This has been happening ever since the Zsnes and Snes9x days. That's why I always said its always better for Nintendo not to fight PC and embrace it and make money from it. Because eventually it will get cracked open. Look at PS3 people never thought it would be possible for it to have an emulator because of the hardware and now we have RPCS3 and now Shadps4 is getting better everyday. Atleast Sony is being proactive and putting these games on PC which takes the incentives in creating emulators. I understand Nintendo protecting there IP but to some of their business practices there's coders and developers out there with ambition to access their games on their own terms.

By the time there is a functioning Switch 2 emulator that doesn't run like garbage we will be hearing rumors about the Switch 3.

 

[SNG32]

By the time there is a functioning Switch 2 emulator that doesn't run like garbage we will be hearing rumors about the Switch 3.

Ok and thats fine. Doesn't mean it wont happen.

 

[LordOcidax]

It's actually like this;

"Fuck Nintendo and their shitty hardware, anti-consumer, boring games, attacking freedom, blah, blah, blah".

After posting said drivel, they switch pages to steal the software they proclaim to loathe, from a company they proclaim to loathe.

In reality, they are just a bunch of whiny, broke bastards, who get a hard-on for Animal crossing characters, like the legion of other goobers they "hate, so, so much."

Cheap, indignant cunts, the lot of em.