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Nintendo's ongoing fight against Switch piracy has a new target in its sights — and that's the r/SwitchPirates subreddit.

As first reported by Stephen Totillo in Game File, Nintendo's recent federal court filing (dated November 21) highlights how the company is now taking aim at one of the largest hubs for Switch-related piracy chatter.

With over 200,000 members, the sizeable Reddit community is now very much in Nintendo’s crosshairs, chiefly due to being linked to alleged modder James “Archbox” Williams. He's a modder who previously ran what Nintendo describes as a “vast network of Pirate Shops”.

Nintendo's legal filing alleges that Williams, who is said to have served as a primary moderator of the r/SwitchPirates subreddit, used the platform as a way to promote pirated Switch games and related tools designed to circumvent console security.

Nintendo goes on to claim that this subreddit has played a central role in fostering Switch piracy, describing it as a place where pseudonymous users can come together and coordinate the distribution of illegal content (such as Switch ROMs).

From the filing:

“Reddit, Inc. operates a social media platform where users, often using pseudonyms, may post to different forums known as communities or ‘subreddits.’ Defendant was a primary moderator of the SwitchPirates community, under the name ‘Archbox,’ which boasted more than 190,000 members.”

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Kind of surprised it took them this long considering how litigious Nintendo has become.

Then again I guess they were gathering their receipts.