Nintendo switch The NSW2U piracy websites were taken offline after a seizure in mid -July by the Federal Investigation Office. The FBI eliminated one of the largest hosts of illegal ROM switches on the Internet, which has been functional for almost five years.
While most modern consoles tend to resist piracy for years after release, the switch was unusually quickly attacked. His first public escape from prison became possible because of the vulnerability of hardware in the NVIDIA Tegra X1 chip, discovered in less than a year since its release in March 2017. After the error was published in April 2018, groups like Team Xecuter began to publish their own firmware that allowed users to rip Roma and play pirate games. The fact that Tegra X1 was a widely documented chip before the release of the switch accelerated the development of emulators, which further contributes to the rapid development of efforts for switching piracy. As the scene has matured in the coming years, there have been countless websites dedicated to illegal distribution of Switch ROM.
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One of the largest such websites on the Internet, NSW2U, has recently been canceled by the FBI, reports Kotaku. Based on the history of social media and cache history, the pages were taken offline in the early morning (ET) on Thursday, July 10. As is typical of interventions on piracy on the site of this species, the NSW2U domain now shows the FBI distribution announcement showing the Northern district announcement, which is shown in the Northern District Court showing the Northern district of Georbia. NSW2U has been functional since at least December 2020, according to the cache data for the cache, reviewed by Game Rant.
FBI worked with the Dutch authorities to stop NSW2U
The notice of stopping dissemination shows that the FBI cooperated with FIOD, the Dutch fiscal and investigative agency, as part of the NSW2U seizure. While the scope of this cooperation is unclear, the mere mention of FIOD suggests that the site operators could be founded in the Netherlands. Since July 11, neither the FBI nor the US Ministry of Justice recognized seizures through any official channels.
This development monitors a number of Nintendo movements to strengthen its policies against piracy during the recent issue of the successor of the Switch. While the new console has yet resisted hackering attempts, the tightened Nintendo policy has already resulted in some brick switch 2 units that are now floating on the second market.
In the court submission and performance, Nintendo's lawyers continually claimed that the piracy with switching had a significant impact on the lower limit of society. The Japanese game giant repeated this position at the beginning of 2024 when he filed a lawsuit against Tropic Haze, the Yuzu Switches developers, who claimed to violate intellectual property and material loss.
