Nintendo Switch pirates sunk by the FBI as they seize the site for hosting pirated games — American and Dutch authorities take down NSW2U.com

NSW2U website seized by the FBI
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NWS2U.com, one of the biggest and most popular websites for downloading pirated Switch games, has been taken down by U.S. authorities. This was one of the go-to places for gamers to download titles without needing to pay for them and install them on hacked Nintendo Switch consoles or emulators. If you go to the page today, you’ll see that an announcement has replaced its homepage with the logos of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD).

The warning says, “This domain has been seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in accordance with a seizure warrant issued pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § § 2323 issued by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia as part of a law enforcement operation and action by: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD).” As a result, would-be pirates would have a harder time finding ROMs they can use on their jailbroken Switches or PC and phone emulators.

Jowi Morales
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Jowi Morales is a tech enthusiast with years of experience working in the industry. He’s been writing with several tech publications since 2021, where he’s been interested in tech hardware and consumer electronics.

  • Amdlova
    Hydra will be back!
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  • usertests
    Piracy is the way. If domain names become untenable, we can switch to onion sites.
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  • 93QSD5
    usertests said:
    Piracy is the way. If domain names become untenable, we can switch to onion sites.
    Or even better, decentralized domain names.
    The internet infrastructure (both physical and digital) has been for too many decades too centralized. Nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.

    AWS & Cloudflare seriously need to die off.
    Can you even actively avoid them at all as a consumer with only software (since you can't prevent packets transit path) at this point?
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  • COLGeek
    Tom's Hardware does not support any form of software piracy. None. Period.

    Just making sure all are perfectly clear on this policy.
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