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Switch modder arrested in Japan as Nintendo admits emulation is technically legal
A 58-year-old man from Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, was arrested for selling modified Nintendo Switch consoles designed to play pirated games. According to Japanese media, this marks the...
While the company acknowledges its limitations in combating programs like Yuzu, a recent arrest in Japan for selling modified devices loaded with pirated games has brought Nintendo's aggressive litigation strategy into sharper focus. Fumihiro Otobe, a transportation worker from Ryugasaki City, was accused of soldering hardware modifications onto secondhand Switch circuit boards to enable the use of pirated games. At the annual Tokyo eSports Festa last week, Nintendo's chief patent attorney, Koji Nishiura, acknowledged that emulators are technically legal.
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