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A comment on Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators to target modders. Parent comment

Re:Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators ... by zucker42 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:59PM (#25586655)
> I can't see why they would care about people modifying the games or equipment they own.

Nintendo has previously sued a company for selling a device which allows people to mod the device they owned. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Galoob_Toys,_Inc._v._N.... Nintendo is notoriously anti-consumer in this regard.

And anyways, restricting mods is unnecessary to encourage the economic viability of video games.

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Re:Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators ... by javajosh on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:23PM (#25586916)
That link doesn't work. Okay, I admit I don't know much about the modding community these days, but back in the day it used to be ALL about enabling you to play the files you just downloaded. What do mods do these days? I admit that if someone is selling a mod that lets you, I don't know, change the sprites around in your favorite game, that would not affect N's bottom line and it would be a big problem if they confronted people about something like that.
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