US court orders Redditor to pay Nintendo £3.4m over Switch piracy
A US District Judge has granted Nintendo a £3.4 million ($4.5m) default judgment against James Williams, the former Reddit moderator known online as "Archbox", after he failed to respond to a lawsuit over alleged Nintendo Switch piracy.
A US District Judge has granted Nintendo a £3.4 million ($4.5m) default judgment against James Williams, the former Reddit moderator known online as "Archbox", after he failed to respond to a lawsuit over alleged Nintendo Switch piracy.
The short version
- After putting Switch pirate Gary Bowser behind bars and targeting emulator software Yuzu , back in 2024 Nintendo hunted down alleged Switch pirate James "Archbox" Williams , the main moderator behind r/SwitchPirates, by tracking his Reddit posts.
- And now, according to TorrentFreak , $4.5 million (£3.4m) is exactly what Williams now owes Nintendo.
- The judge noted that while Williams had not responded to the lawsuit, he must have been aware of it given he had hired a lawyer to object to a Google subpoena.
What happened
The judge also credited Nintendo for not separately seeking DMCA damages or attorneys' fees, calling it a "gesture of reasonableness" that supported awarding the maximum copyright damages. Last month, John Romero, the co-founder of id Software and father of game series Quake and Doom, recounted a tale about when id Software worked with Taiwanese pirates to spread Doom .
Why it matters
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