Nintendo Switch NSW2U, an illegal cloned website, is offline after seizure in mid -July by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Therefore, the FBI has taken out one of the biggest illegal switch ROMs on the Internet, which has been operated for almost five years.
Most modern consoles tend to resist illegal cloning for several years after launch, but switches have been abnormally hacked. Due to the hardware vulnerability of NVIDIA TEGRA X1 Chip, the first public jailbreak found in March 2017 was found within a year. After the defect was released in April 2018, a group like Team Xecuter began to launch a custom firmware that allows users to tear ROM and play illegal games. The fact that the TEGRA X1 was a widely documented chip before the launch of the switch accelerated the development of the emulator, contributing further to the rapid development of the switch illegal replication efforts. In the next few years, as the scene matured, there were many websites that were dedicated to illegally distributing switch ROMs.
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New information about how Nintendo has hunted a specific switch pirate, which is believed to have sold numerous illegal replica games, has been revealed.
The KOTAKU report reported that NSW2U, one of the largest websites on the Internet, was recently withdrawn by the FBI. Based on the history of social media chaters and cached sites, this site was offline offline at the morning time (ET) on Thursday, July 10. For this kind of illegal cloning site crackdown, the typical NSW2U domain now displays the FBI takedown notice for the 18 US Code 2323 based on a warrant issued by the US District Court of the US District. According to the cached site data reviewed by Game Rant, NSW2U has been operated since December 2020.
The FBI cooperated with the Dutch authorities in the NSW2U takedown.
According to the takedown notice, the FBI has worked with Dutch financial information and investigator FIOD as part of the NSW2U seizure. The scope of this collaboration is unclear, but the mention of the FIOD suggests that the site operator may have been based in the Netherlands. As of July 11, the FBI or the US Department of Justice did not recognize the seizures through the official channel.
This development will strengthen the slander policy on the recent announcement of the recent switch's successor, following a series of movements of Nintendo. The new console has resisted the hacking attempt so far, but Nintendo's reinforcement policy has already created some brick switch 2 devices, which is currently in the used market.
In the court submission and appearance, Nintendo lawyer continued to argue that illegal switch cloning had a big impact on the company's profits. The Japanese game giant repeated this position in early 2024, claiming a lawsuit against Tropic Haze, a developer of the switch emulator Uzu (YUZU).
