{"id":349507,"date":"2025-10-08T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/?p=398127"},"modified":"2025-10-08T00:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:05:07","slug":"nintendo-sues-a-reddit-moderator-for-the-staggering-amount-of-4-5-million-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/nintendo-sues-a-reddit-moderator-for-the-staggering-amount-of-4-5-million-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo sues a Reddit moderator for the staggering amount of 4.5 million dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against James Williams, a moderator of a Nintendo Switch piracy page on Reddit, claiming $4.5 million in damages. According to the complaint, Williams, who operated under the pseudonym Archbox, was involved in the operation of several piracy sites,<strong> in addition to selling hardware hacks and offering modified consoles that included pirated games<\/strong>. The video game company stated that Williams ignored a cease and desist order, which triggered the legal action against him.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A commendable and questionable investigation<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nintendo&#8217;s investigation allowed them to trace Williams&#8217; identity through personal details he shared online, as well as through a request to repair his Switch console. <strong>Williams stopped responding to Nintendo&#8217;s requests, which resulted in a default judgment against him, as he did not present his defense to the court before the established deadlines<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nintendo Switch Super Bowl 51 Commercial - Extended Cut\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IH6AAbhayHY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2024, as a result of the demand, Nintendo successfully shut down the Yuzu and Citra emulators, demonstrating the company&#8217;s strong determination to protect its intellectual property. 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According to the complaint, Williams, who operated under the pseudonym Archbox, was involved in the operation of several piracy sites, in addition to selling hardware hacks and offering modified consoles that included pirated games. The video game company indicated that Williams ignored a cease and desist order, which triggered legal action against him. A commendable and questionable investigation Nintendo&#8217;s investigation allowed them to trace Williams&#8217; identity through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9318,"featured_media":349531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1018,1015],"tags":[16939,16940,3854,16941,1074,1084,6741,16865,6318],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-349507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-news","tag-archbox","tag-citra","tag-ia","tag-james-williams","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-pirateria","tag-sora-2","tag-yuzu","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349525,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349507\/revisions\/349525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349507"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=349507"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=349507"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=349507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}