- Nintendo has updated its user agreement both in the United States and in the United Kingdom
- In the US
- In the United Kingdom, your digital software could be disabled
Nintendo has updated its user agreement, hardening its position on those who piracy games, try to emulate titles or modify their consoles.
The changes were announced in an email distributed to users in the US. And applies to all existing and new Nintendo accounts. The game file informs that the agreement received a little more than 100 editions.
Some of the most interesting editions include a massive expansion of a portion that used to affirm that players “cannot lease, rent, sublict, publish, copy, modify, adapt, translate, invest inverse engineering, decompile or disassemble all or any portion of Nintendo’s account services without the written consent of Nintendo, or less that it is expressed by the applicable law.”
Now, he says that: “Without limitation, you accept that you cannot publish, copy, modify, invest inverse engineering, lease, rent, decompose, disassemble, distribute, offer for sale or create works derived from any part of the Nintendo account services; (b) bypass, modify, decipher, sieve or sieve or the opposite of any part of the funds or protections From the funds in the account of the functions of the funds of the defeat of the functions of the account of the funds of the defeat, including the services of the account of the funds of the account of the funds of the account of the functions of the defeat, including the services of the account of the accounts of the defeat or otherwise applicable law “.
Nintendo is effectively now spelling exactly what you can’t do. To be prohibited “pass, modify, decipher, defeat, manipulate” with parts of the system completely discards activities such as installing their own home applications. The fact that it cannot “obtain, install or use unauthorized copies of the Nintendo account services” also emphasizes more strongly that no type of software piracy is allowed.
As for what could happen if you break these rules, the agreement now establishes that: “You recognize that if you do not comply with the above restrictions, Nintendo can provide the Nintendo account services and/or the nintendo device permanently unusable applicable in its entirety or partly.”
This describes Nintendo’s ability to block your device (doing so “permanently useless in its entirety”) if it does not adhere to the agreement. The company could also disable certain functions (making it useless “in part”) that, for example, could mean that cheats can access online services in games.
The agreement has also been updated in the United Kingdom, although the new wording is less drastic. The players of the region now accept that: “Any digital product registered in their Nintendo account and any update of said digital products only has a license for personal and non -commercial use on a user device.”
“Digital products should not be used for any other purpose. In particular, without the written consent of NOE, it should not lease or rent digital products or sublicenciate, publish, copy, modify, adapt, translate, invest in reverse engineering, decompile or disassemble any part of digital products that are not expressly allowed by the applicable law,” he continues. “Such unauthorized use of a digital product can make the digital product useless.”
These agreements are currently applied to the Nintendo Switch, but, unless they are changed before launch, it would also govern their use of the next Nintendo Switch 2. With this in mind, it would be advisable to read the new terms carefully and make sure that it does not end
