In the middle of this year, a Nintendo Switch distributor who apparently modified them to execute illegal deliveries was sued by Nintendo. The company demanded that it stop the sale of these consoles or they would proceed legally. However, Ryan Daly, who is in charge of said store, assures that he does not have a lawyer and denies each of the accusations made against it by the Japanese company.
According to a report by TorrentFreakDaly called “denied” each of Nintendo’s accusations, claiming that “there is not enough information to support them”. In addition, he claims to defend himself in the face of Nintendo’s lawsuit, so he will not have a lawyer in judicial matters in the state of Seattle.
But those are not all the problems for Daly, since the Japanese company also accuses him of the fact that the consoles that he sold in his store already had pre-installed games at the time of their marketing.
However, Daly claims to have listed 17 “affirmative defenses”, which present supposed “evidence” that could exempt them from the charges awarded by Nintendo. For example, fair use of hardware and invalid copyrights. Daly plans to conduct his defense without the advice of a lawyer, and on his own through a Seattle court.
At the moment Nintendo has not responded regarding this, nor has a date been given for an official trial in said state, so we have to wait for the resolution of this lawsuit and how Daly will proceed given that he does not have an expert lawyer in these types of copyright situations and illicit sale of modified hardware.
We remember that one of the most notorious cases regarding this type of accusations was that of Gary Bowser, who was sentenced to 40 months in prison and will have to pay Nintendo about 10 million dollars.
