By some peoples logic here, anyone with a browser should get banned from itunes and all the other places that sell digital content, because they could in fact pirate movies, music, shows, etc. Using a TOR Client should get you prosecuted, because you could be buying drugs, weapons or even do human trafficking on sites like silkroad. Using encryption should make you a spy, because… who knows?
Or if this is too drastic for you, rooting your android phone should void and anulate all of your google play purchases. Modifiying your car (e.g. changing the radio for something else) should disallow you from driving the car.
Why the heck is any of this good to anyone? I modify a huge amount of electronics around my house, because it is fun. But I pay for the content I listen to, watch or play. I even write software for a living and would not be to happy, to do that for free, because someone is not willing to pay for it’s usage. But! Putting a webbrowser onto your switch or finding a way to backup my save games (as the hacking community did) does not interfere with the nintendo online services, it does not steal from anyone and it sure as hell shouldn’t bother anyone around here.
What nintendo did, is to block his access to all of his digital purchased content on that account. This is not justified in the slightest. And stating the ToS is bs, because usually these things are nothing you really “accept” or “don’t”, you often can’t even read them before purchase. They are either printed inside the box on a piece of paper or printed on to the screen on first boot up… I’m still not accepting that as binding in any sense. And a ToS can’t overrule any laws and taking away digital purchases from someone (basically stealing - the same thing as pirating, just the other way arround) is way worse than any violation of any ToS.
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Re: Nintendo Bans Online Services For Prominent Hacker's Switch Console
Wow, the comments are crazy!
By some peoples logic here, anyone with a browser should get banned from itunes and all the other places that sell digital content, because they could in fact pirate movies, music, shows, etc. Using a TOR Client should get you prosecuted, because you could be buying drugs, weapons or even do human trafficking on sites like silkroad. Using encryption should make you a spy, because… who knows?
Or if this is too drastic for you, rooting your android phone should void and anulate all of your google play purchases. Modifiying your car (e.g. changing the radio for something else) should disallow you from driving the car.
Why the heck is any of this good to anyone? I modify a huge amount of electronics around my house, because it is fun. But I pay for the content I listen to, watch or play. I even write software for a living and would not be to happy, to do that for free, because someone is not willing to pay for it’s usage. But! Putting a webbrowser onto your switch or finding a way to backup my save games (as the hacking community did) does not interfere with the nintendo online services, it does not steal from anyone and it sure as hell shouldn’t bother anyone around here.
What nintendo did, is to block his access to all of his digital purchased content on that account. This is not justified in the slightest. And stating the ToS is bs, because usually these things are nothing you really “accept” or “don’t”, you often can’t even read them before purchase. They are either printed inside the box on a piece of paper or printed on to the screen on first boot up… I’m still not accepting that as binding in any sense. And a ToS can’t overrule any laws and taking away digital purchases from someone (basically stealing - the same thing as pirating, just the other way arround) is way worse than any violation of any ToS.
Re: RiME Takes Up More Space On Switch Than On Xbox One And PlayStation 4
Maybe it’s because some of the assets are included in 720p and 1080p to have less interlacing when switching between docked and portable mode
Re: Dragon Quest XI On Switch Is Powered By Unreal Engine 4
@BlueOcean The Nintendo Switch Support was added in UE 4.15, so they couldn’t have used 4.13. See: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/unreal-engine-4-15-released