- Jul 27, 2015
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Lawyers acting for Nintendo are leaving no stone unturned in their battle to prevent Team-Xecuter's modchips from becoming a market success. The latest target is a company that offered to install SX devices into customers' Switch consoles, an activity which Nintendo describes as a breach of the DMCA's anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions.
In an effort to restrict the availability of devices that can enable people to play pirated games on Switch consoles, last month Nintendo sued several stores offering products developed by Team-Xecuter. According to the Japanese gaming giant, the SX Core and SX Lite hardware mods – which work on all Switch consoles – are illegal tools that breach the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions. The company warned that should the devices saturate the market, they have the potential to expose more than 35 million Switch consoles to piracy. Having failed to track down and prevent Team-Xecutor from developing and manufacturing SX devices, distributors and sellers were perhaps a logical target for Nintendo. However, it now transpires that the company is prepared for legal action against those even lower down the chain.
Nintendo: Soldering a Modchip into a Switch Console Breaches the DMCA * TorrentFreak
Nintendo lawyers have warned a US company that simply soldering a Team-Xecuter modchip inside a Switch console breaches the DMCA.
torrentfreak.com