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[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Further evidence of why you use a dedicated alt for anything even vaguely sketch.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 15 points 18 hours ago

Even if you are not doing anything particularly sketchy, you still want to make a habit of using multiple unrelated email addresses and always using alts with new unrelated names.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 62 points 21 hours ago

That's some pretty bad opsec, using a single email address with the same nick.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 23 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Hey Alexa, how do I vpn my shipping details?

[–] THX1138@lemmy.ml 21 points 20 hours ago

Alexa and vpn how ironic lol

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 17 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I expected him to be selling pirate Switches and/or games. Nope. They are suing him only for talking about it. Insane.

[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 hour ago

Uhhh.. he literally moderated the r/SwitchPirates subreddit and had ties to multiple pirate shops that distributed the pirated games.

I don't support Nintendo's lawsuits, but people are making it sound like they're going after some random Joe who just mentioned pirating games in a comment or two. Unless you're moderating one of the biggest Nintendo pirating communities or working to distribute pirated games, AND are really bad with op-sec, you're probably fine.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 52 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 16 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 15 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 9 points 19 hours ago

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.

[–] Biskii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 16 hours ago

I quit using shops years ago because they all ended up being paywalled. It's been shown time and time again that 'unrelated donations' is not a loop hole. Most shops weren't even unrelated. You had to donate an undumped game or eshop credit towards one. I understand obtaining the games in the first place isn't free, but taking money for anything Nintendo related is a bad move, and will be seen as selling their copyrighted material in a court of law

I'm also not ashamed to say, I pirate to get free shit. You start charging, I'll put in more effort to get it for free. There are ways to run your own shop, which I did for a while, but I got tired of messing with the network and just used USB install over DBI for the most part