{"id":349549,"date":"2025-10-08T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/?p=398260"},"modified":"2025-10-08T00:51:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:51:34","slug":"nintendo-sues-a-a-reddit-moderator-and-demands-4-5-million-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/nintendo-sues-a-a-reddit-moderator-and-demands-4-5-million-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo sues a a Reddit moderator and demands 4.5 million dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against James &#8216;Archbox&#8217; Williams, a Reddit moderator, for his alleged management of illegal video game distribution sites.<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.3djuegos.com\/nintendo-switch\/noticias\/nintendo-desmiente-presiones-al-gobierno-japon-ia-generativa-que-tiene-claro-compania-que-seguira-igual-que-siempre-sus-ip\"> The Japanese company<\/a> is seeking $4.5 million in damages, accusing him of having offered large libraries of pirated Nintendo Switch games and providing technical assistance to users in a Reddit group where he exercised his moderation.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The great battle of the company against piracy<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the documents submitted in the United States District Court, this legal action follows a cease and desist order that Nintendo sent to Archbox in March 2024. <strong>Despite acknowledging that its activities infringed the rights of Nintendo of America, Archbox did not comply with the company&#8217;s demands and continued operating its piracy portals<\/strong>. Nintendo has stated in its complaint that Archbox displayed a combative and uncooperative attitude, making it difficult to resolve the conflict outside of court.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The situation became complicated when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xataka.com\/videojuegos\/siempre-creimos-que-pistolas-luz-disparaban-rayos-invisibles-realidad-contraria-era-tele-que-disparaba\">Nintendo<\/a> tried to obtain written confirmations that Archbox would comply with its legal requirements, to which he responded evasively. Furthermore, <strong>the company offered a final opportunity for the moderator to meet its demands<\/strong>, but never received communication from his lawyer, despite Archbox&#8217;s promises.<\/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=\"Mario Kart World \u2013 Nintendo Direct | Nintendo Switch 2\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3pE23YTYEZM?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\">Nintendo, known for its tenacious legal team specialized in protecting its copyrights, underscores its favorable track record in this type of litigation. <strong>With the progress of the lawsuit and Archbox&#8217;s behavior in content management, analysts believe that the company has a strong case against it. <\/strong>Although the outcome of this dispute may take a few weeks, the current outlook suggests that Nintendo could be well positioned to achieve a victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against James &#8216;Archbox&#8217; Williams, a Reddit moderator, for his alleged management of illegal video game distribution sites. The Japanese company is seeking $4.5 million in damages, accusing him of having offered large libraries of pirated Nintendo Switch games and providing technical support to users in a Reddit group where he served as a moderator. The company&#8217;s major battle against piracy According to documents filed in the U.S. District Court, this legal action follows a cease and desist order that Nintendo sent [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9317,"featured_media":349556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1074,16973,16974,1722],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-349549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-demanda","tag-nintendo-pirateria","tag-reddit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349549","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\/9317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349558,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349549\/revisions\/349558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349549"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=349549"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=349549"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=349549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}