Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes:
The brand new Nintendo Swap 2 is sort of right here. Subsequent month, keen followers will lastly be capable of get their fingers on the extremely anticipated follow-up to the wildly common hybrid console. However earlier than you line up (or frantically refresh your browser for a preorder), you may need to learn the positive print, as a result of Nintendo may be capable of kill your console.
Sure, actually. That is not simply hypothesis, of us. Based on its newly up to date consumer settlement, Nintendo has granted itself the suitable to make your Swap 2 “completely unusable” in the event you break sure guidelines. Sure, the corporate may actually brick your machine. Buried within the legalese is a clause that claims in the event you attempt to bypass system protections, modify software program, or mess with the console in a manner that is not authorised, Nintendo can take motion. And that motion might embody fully disabling your system.
The precise wording makes it crystal clear: Nintendo might “render the Nintendo Account Providers and/or the relevant Nintendo machine completely unusable in entire or partially….” [T]o be truthful, that is most likely focused at individuals who reverse engineer the system or set up unauthorized software program — suppose piracy, modding, dishonest, and the like. However the broad and obscure nature of the language leaves a number of room for interpretation. Who decides what qualifies as “unauthorized use”? Nintendo does. Nintendo’s verbiage says customers should agree “with out limitation” to not…
Publish, copy, modify, reverse engineer, lease, lease, decompile, disassemble, distribute, supply on the market, or create spinoff works
Acquire, set up or use any unauthorized copies of Nintendo Account Providers
Exploit the Nintendo Account Providers in any method aside from to make use of them in accordance with the relevant documentation and supposed use [unless “otherwise expressly permitted by applicable law.”]
Bypass, modify, decrypt, defeat, tamper with, or in any other case circumvent any of the features or protections… together with by way of the usage of any {hardware} or software program that may trigger the Nintendo Account Providers to function aside from in accordance with its documentation and supposed use
“…in the event you fail to adjust to the foregoing restrictions Nintendo might render the Nintendo Account Providers and/or the relevant Nintendo machine completely unusable in entire or partially.”
