Nintendo to pursue over 200.000 Reddit users

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JRPGfan said:

1) Wtf? Jeez nintendo about to ruin 200,000 peoples lives.
    They (nintendo) are swimming in money, and most of these guys are likely near broke (if they're resorting to pirateing).

2) Why would you call your thingy "SwitchPirates" ? thats like double dog daring nintendo to do something.

Zkuq said:

If Nintendo has identified 200,000 users on an individual basis, I'm fine with this. But I'm guessing they haven't, in which case this seems like a major overkill: innocent until proven otherwise, and so forth.

That's spamigation for you.

But as rigid as Nintendo has been about copyright since the 1980s (the worst in the industry) they probably aren't going to sue 200,000 people. They want the info on the main distributors in this case.

Film and music recording companies have tried that approach many times in the 2000s but it was never financially or reputationally worth it, and neither did it inhibit copyright infringement (some argue it made it worse, even).