Switch Modder Ordered To Pay $2 Million

Maybe he wanted a reason to file for chapter 7 bankruptcy? Idk if it would wipe everything out.

That isn't how it works.

A judge can overturn a jury's verdict when it is not supported by the evidence/law. It would likely be professional suicide to do so in this case had the jury sided with daly. Can't imagine how the public would have reacted.

The title says he sells it, not just installing it.

I highly doubt anyone would come after you if all you do is modifying your own console for your own use. Selling things to everyone else which potentially hurt other game company's profit at a larger scale is whole other business.

Maybe in places that don't have or enforce copyright law.


My man is sitting in a shop full of modded consoles, running a website to market and resell them with the clear intent of piracy. If this case went to trial it would have looked like a Phoenix Wright speedrun.

Not how it works. It’s legal to have backups of your software. He presumably was stupid enough to admit something that could be linked to piracy or his lack of representation meant the fact that it isn’t illegal was never brought up.

That was apparently in the ruling according to chanti's article. so that was the point Daley (his name seems to be spelled 2 different ways in the article) needed to argue, better than just "denying wrongdoing"

I don't think the point is that he was pirating or modding his Switches, he was selling modded consoles, the hardware to mod them, providing instructions to do so, and offering modification as a service, then loading pirated games onto customers consoles.

This wasn't a personal use/backup situation according to other articles, he was involved in sales and ran a business around it:

https://torrentfreak.com/modded-hardware-defendant-denies-nintendos-copyright-claims-in-court-241006/

ballsy

Did people not understand or are there really that many who would step up to be a defense attorney in this case? It shouldn't surprise me given the tolerance for violating in this community, but damn....