Nintendo of America seeks $4.5m in damages from Redditor for copyright violations

 

Nintendo of America is seeking after a $4.5 million default judgment against James C. Williams, known online as "Arch box," a previous arbitrator of the now-defunct r/Switchports subreddit. Williams is charged of working different robbery websites, counting JITS and Turtle in the Shop, where he purportedly conveyed thousands of pilfered Nintendo Switch recreations. He supposedly charged clients for sped up download get to, assist raising the lawful reaction 

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Nintendo's claim, recorded in October 2025, claims that Williams' activities caused critical hurt to its commerce and mental property rights, as well as to the employments of designers and craftsmen related with Nintendo items. The company states that the $4.5 million figure is deficiently to completely compensate for the harms brought about 

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Despite accepting a cease-and-desist letter from Nintendo's lawful group, Williams supposedly fizzled to react or show up in court, provoking Nintendo to look for a default judgment. The company has too taken steps to subpoena commerce records from different web space companies and stages, counting Name Cheap, Go Daddy, Tucows, Cloud flare, GitHub, Friction, Google, and Reddit, to distinguish people who may have helped Williams in his unlawful exercises