They can’t write their own laws and their terms of service can’t go against your local laws if they want to provide their services in your State (in the general sense, not in the USA sense), so customer protection laws can solve the issue if Nintendo won’t solve it themselves.
They absolutely shouldn’t be able to, but companies are constantly pushing the boundaries and seem to be getting away with their bullshit bullshit depressingly often.
Supposedly this is how the animetuber community were able to get relief from copy strikes after TNM took a public stand against the practice when his one piece series got struck
So a fair amount of this is conjecture on my part, but what is known is every switch cartridge has a unique certificate that checks in with Nintendo servers.
At the moment it’s used to detect if the same game is running on two systems, for banning consoles involved with piracy.
But, technically there’s nothing stopping them from just manually blocking a specific cartridge from running once identified.
You really think they would stop in that case?
Nintendo is writing their own laws through terms of service, enforced with kill switches built into their games.
They can’t write their own laws and their terms of service can’t go against your local laws if they want to provide their services in your State (in the general sense, not in the USA sense), so customer protection laws can solve the issue if Nintendo won’t solve it themselves.
They absolutely shouldn’t be able to, but companies are constantly pushing the boundaries and seem to be getting away with their bullshit bullshit depressingly often.
Supposedly this is how the animetuber community were able to get relief from copy strikes after TNM took a public stand against the practice when his one piece series got struck
No kidding? I haven’t heard of this, but I wouldn’t be surprised. Got any links (re: killswitches)?
So a fair amount of this is conjecture on my part, but what is known is every switch cartridge has a unique certificate that checks in with Nintendo servers.
At the moment it’s used to detect if the same game is running on two systems, for banning consoles involved with piracy.
But, technically there’s nothing stopping them from just manually blocking a specific cartridge from running once identified.
https://wololo.net/2024/01/19/the-mig-switch-works-as-advertised-for-the-most-part-but-concerns-remain-around-ban-risks/
No, they aren’t.