It actually doesn’t say that the prod.keys was illegally obtained, just that they had a dumped copy. I don’t know if there was a way for forensics to tell a difference between a copy they dumped from their own hardware and one someone else shared to them. Maybe they had evidence it was shared over discord or something.
As for linking, the article doesn’t say they linked to anything illegal, just that they linked to tools which could be used to do something (root your switch) which could be used to do something (share the content of your switch) illegal. IMO there’s nothing ethically wrong with hacking your own hardware to preserve your games. So this would be like me linking to a set of knives on Amazon, and being found guilty of condoning murder.
Nintendo also has an abysmal track record with maintaining your digital rights to anything. Ever buy anything on the 3DS or Wii digital stores? Hope you still have that device or dumped a copy of the game, because Nintendo forgot about that purchase.
So I also don’t see anything wrong with the links they provided. At the end of the day, you still need to purchase Nintendo hardware and games in order to do anything they instructed you to do. But Nintendo sure would like people to think that hacking your own hardware is synonymous with copyright infringement.
It actually doesn’t say that the prod.keys was illegally obtained, just that they had a dumped copy. I don’t know if there was a way for forensics to tell a difference between a copy they dumped from their own hardware and one someone else shared to them. Maybe they had evidence it was shared over discord or something.
As for linking, the article doesn’t say they linked to anything illegal, just that they linked to tools which could be used to do something (root your switch) which could be used to do something (share the content of your switch) illegal. IMO there’s nothing ethically wrong with hacking your own hardware to preserve your games. So this would be like me linking to a set of knives on Amazon, and being found guilty of condoning murder.
Nintendo also has an abysmal track record with maintaining your digital rights to anything. Ever buy anything on the 3DS or Wii digital stores? Hope you still have that device or dumped a copy of the game, because Nintendo forgot about that purchase.
So I also don’t see anything wrong with the links they provided. At the end of the day, you still need to purchase Nintendo hardware and games in order to do anything they instructed you to do. But Nintendo sure would like people to think that hacking your own hardware is synonymous with copyright infringement.