Nintendo to pursue over 200.000 Reddit users

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Zkuq said:

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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.

They're as successful as they are because they work to keep things under control. Why should they settle for having their property stolen? They have every right to combat piracy of their games.