FBI says it's now seized "multiple" ROM piracy sites, claims downloads resulted in $170m losses in just three months
Following the Federal Bureau of Investigation's widely reported seizure of pirate ROM site Nsw2u.com last week, the US …
Fuuuuuck Nintendo. No one hates their fans more than Nintendo.
They are bricking brand new consoles, locking their USB ports to approved hardware, charging for the tech demo that would customarily be free on an $800 device. And that's just this year.
So Nintendo is gonna become richer by that amount in just 3 months?
So now the company will have ~100m extra revenue in the next 3 months? Right? Right?
Focusing on the important issues...
It also claimed these websites had seen cumulative downloads of 3.2m in just three months this year - from 28th February and 28th May - resulting "in an estimated loss of $170m".
In other words:
Given that both these blatant falsehoods match the propaganda that big media parasite corporations started pushing a few decades ago, it seems pretty clear who the taxpayer-funded FBI is working for.
there is a reason humble bundle's pay what you want model worked, lol. I bet if humble bundle allows company to get data back for pricing analysis, it would greatly help the indies.
I mean, it's a Trump appointee. Was there ever any doubt?
Reminds me of the math used by cops when they seize drugs to come up with an absurd amount of money to make it look like they're having an impact on the never-ending war on drugs.
Don't know how accurate it is, but I've heard of even CSAM being inflated this way in police busts, where if there's a video that's X seconds long and has a framerate of Y frames per second, it will be described as X * Y "images" (so a 10-second 60 fps video is treated like it's the same thing as 600 photos) instead of plainly describing a video as being a video.
So we've got a kilo of cocaine, but thats gonna be cut to 4 or 5 times its weight probably, so let's call that 5kg. Then lets assume each of those 1000 grams is gonna be broken down into 50 20mg single doses, and lets say those addicts are gonna pay 20 bucks for a single dose. Thats $1000 per gram, time 5kg, we've got ourselves a nice 5million dollar bust here. Call the papers and print it.
If that's the way it works I'm going to set up bots to pirate every Mario game over and over till Nintendo goes bankrupt and I can buy it for pennies on the dollar.
One of the pirate party guys made a Raspberry pi doohickey that did exactly that to show how stupid these calculations are. It constantly downloaded to a null device, or moved it to a null device once compete so the file never existed except incredibly briefly. I think it also tracked how many times it was downloaded so the "cost" could be calculated.
Bummer, I used that site a lot back when there were actual Switch games I wanted to play. Guess I'll have to get Metroid Prime 4 elsewhere when the time comes!
Losses from lost N64 cartridge sales?
fwiw, modchips for the Switch are commonplace and while I haven't been on any of the listed sites there are plenty with similar sounding names that offer Switch games for download.
I might have bought more switch games if Nintendo made the switch actually usable by fixing drift on their controllers. I would be playing Nintendo games (I legally own) on my switch instead of emulating them but I can't.
Once more for those in the back.
You.
Will.
Not.
Stop.
Piracy.
Good old ”download equals a sale” rhetoric still doing a lot of work in these headlines. It’s been decades.
What losses? Why do these people assume that pirates were ever going to purchase the goods they pirated?
169,999,930. I was never gonna buy that zelda game anyways. So no money was lost.
Do they only target torrent sites or something? Because there's places that have been around for decades that are still up and fine.
Usually just fools from the USA hosting within the USA under their real names and payment information.
No. The one they are talking about seizing most recently served torrents, but also had direct file listings to ROMs.
TPB is basically immortal. Any instance taken down can be back up in minutes. It's a game of whack-a-mole you can never win.
Seems that way now, but just imagine AI... Once we ChatGPT our investigations, the pirates will all be caught so super-fast. Give us money, please.
the FBI acting like when you were home alone all day and you did jack shit, but your hear your mom pull in the driveway and remember the chores she asked you to do, so you set the trash can on fire to make it look like youre doing something
Lol. Perception becomes peoples reality.