Nintendo Reportedly Looking for “New Targets” In Swap Piracy Investigation

Following Nintendo’s latest investigation into the Swap “pirate” James ‘Archbox’ Williams, the online game large is now reportedly searching for “new targets”.

As highlighted by Stephen Totilo of Sport File, the corporate does not look like executed with the SwitchPirates subreddit simply but:

“Nintendo of America (NOA) stated its investigation of Swap modder James “Archbox” Williams has given it new targets. They embody a SwitchPirates subreddit with some 200,000 members”

In court docket final week, Nintendo stated it had turn into “conscious of a number of different on-line actors who appeared to have a job within the Pirate Retailers”.

It is now searching for approval from the court docket to subpoena enterprise data from a number of web domains and websites like Reddit, Github, and Discord to trace down Williams’ attainable associates.

This is precisely what it needed to say in regards to the SwitchPirates subreddit:

“Nintendo has cause to imagine that different accounts energetic within the SwitchPirates group may have been managed by Defendant, or else mirror different people who’ve labored alongside Defendant.”

Nintendo of America believes figuring out such folks would enable it to take additional motion to pursue infringement claims.

You may be taught extra in regards to the lawsuit Nintendo lately received in our latest protection right here on Nintendo Life.