According to IGN, a major website hosting a large number of Switch pirated video games in Nintendo has been shut down by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Today, the notorious NSW2U.COM website no longer offers illegal copying games, replacing them with a warning picture issued by the FBI stating that the domain name has been seized.
This is the latest in a series of anti-piracy operations since this year around the Switch game. Previously, Nintendo had taken action to implement a permanent “change brick” process for the use of the new Switch 2 mainframe, which supports pirated burn cards.
Now, access to the NSW2U.COM website can only see: “This domain name has been seized by the FBI. The seizure was based on a seizure order issued by the United States Federal District Court for the Northern District of Georgia under 18 U.S.C. § 2323. This operation is part of a joint FBI/Financial Information and Investigation Agency (FIOD) enforcement.”
The reference to FIOD in the statement is an agency of the Government of the Netherlands responsible for the investigation of financial crimes, indicating that the website is linked to the Netherlands.
Several European countries have blocked access to the website after NSW2U was blacklisted in May this year. Today, the site appears to have been completely eliminated.
Nintendo has for a long time been severely combating acts that encourage the piracy of its games and has sought to impose high fines or even imprisonment on the persons involved. However, the recent measures taken by the company to implement “mixed brick” on the Switch 2 mainframe, which uses pirated equipment, have given rise to widespread controversy. There are concerns that this may affect the rights of second-hand hosts and even raise legal challenges for Brazilian regulators, who believe that Nintendo may “exceed power”.
