Overview
- The District Court of The Hague ordered an online dropshipper to stop offering MIG Switch Cards, MIG Switch Dumpers and other products that circumvent Nintendo’s security, a decision announced Friday.
- The ruling named sites used to reach European customers, including r4switch.nl, ther4card.com and r4switch.co.uk, and described the seller’s model of shipping stock from Asia directly to buyers in Europe.
- Judges relied on reasoning aligned with the Court of Justice of the European Union to find the primary purpose of these devices is to bypass technological protection measures and enable unauthorized copies of Nintendo games.
- Nintendo said the case advances its wider anti‑piracy campaign and urged players not to buy or use circumvention devices while the company continues civil suits and platform takedowns such as recent removals of Switch emulator repositories on GitHub.
- The order narrows legal access to these devices for European consumers but enforcement is limited to Hague and EU jurisdiction, so cross‑border availability and sellers outside Europe could still pose challenges for rights holders and developers.