A serious web site internet hosting pirate copies of Nintendo Swap video games has been shut down by the FBI.
Now, as a substitute of illegally-copied video games, the infamous NSW2U.com hosts a single picture providing a warning message from the FBI, acknowledging the area has been seized.
The transfer is the newest in a string of anti-piracy efforts surrounding Nintendo video games this yr, and follows Nintendo itself taking motion to completely “brick” new Swap 2 consoles that use a piracy-enabling Flash card system.
“This area has been seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” the assertion now visibile on NSW2U.com reads, “in accordance with a seizure warrant issued pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 2323 issued by america District Court docket for the Northern District of Georgia as a part of a legislation enforcement operation and motion by the Federal Bureau of Investigation [and] Fiscal Info and Investigation Service.”
That latter organisation, the FIOD, is a Dutch authorities company that investigates monetary crimes, suggesting the web site had ties to the Netherlands.
Varied European international locations had beforehand blocked entry to NSW2U.com after it had been added to a EU blacklist in Might. Now, the positioning is seemingly gone for good.
IGN has contacted Nintendo for extra element on the web site’s closure, and any subsequent steps in opposition to these behind its operation.
Nintendo has lengthy waged conflict on those that allow piracy of its video video games, and sought high-profile fines and even jail sentences for these concerned. However the firm’s most up-to-date method of bricking Swap 2 consoles from accessing nearly all of their options has raised eyebrows — with considerations across the impression of this tactic on second-hand prospects, and even a authorized problem from a Brazilian authority which believes Nintendo has over-reached.
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