Last week, Nintendo of America filed a pair of lawsuits against hacking resellers that sell software to play pirated video games on Switch systems, involving both Tom Dilts Jr., the alleged operator of UberChips, and a second against several anonymous defendants from a selection of websites.
Nintendo is taking issues against the software, claiming it as “an unauthorized operating system … and accompanying piracy tools that install it.” Using it, players are able to circumvent the company’s “technological protection measures” that protect its products from “unauthorized access and copying.” Nintendo’s lawyers have stated that disabling those measures let players download the unauthorized operating system and play pirated video games.
While UberChips is offline due to what they claim is “scheduled maintenance,” other websites with regards to the second lawsuit are still up and running. There are kit used for hacking the Switch that are being sold online and some sites take pre-orders to circumvent protection measures that were previously unhackable in newer Switch models and Switch Lite units. In addition,hHundreds of devices have already been sold, and Nintendo has claimed that this is causing “tremendous harm” to the company.