Nintendo to pursue over 200.000 Reddit users

[Zkuq]

curl-6 said:

Zkuq said:

Well, it's a good thing I'm not on Reddit or Facebook, and do you want to know why? Hint: It's precisely because of what I've been preaching here. WhatsApp? Nope. Avoiding Disqus has been more bothersome, but I'm done that too for exactly the same reason. Just recently, I got VR equipment, and guess what criteria I used to exclude some pretty neat options? Yeah, privacy. Having a Google account is my greatest privacy issue, but it's a fairly controlled situation in many ways. Either way, I probably get more or less what I'm expecting, which would 100 % not be the case with this Reddit case. This is just disproportional, but it's what well in line with what Nintendo often (compared to many other similar companies) does: tight control, often using legal means. These days, I appreciate how Nintendo handles many things, but this is not such a thing.

I mean, what would be a proportional response? Nintendo depend on their IP for their very survival, as a result they're obviously going to defend them rigorously. Any info they can glean from this is most likely already out there, I don't see the harm.

Nintendo could probably find a way to request the information they need in a more limited fashion, but I would guess they're going for the this approach mostly because it's easier for them. The way I see it is that Nintendo is quite profitable even with the piracy around, and this is more about keeping things in control rather than meaningful loss of profits. Nintendo most certainly isn't fighting for its survival here. The chances are that Nintendo could do absolutely nothing, starting even from any copy protection measures in their consoles, to combat piracy and still be very profitable instead of having its survival threatened.