Pirates Games in your Nintendo Switch? Nintendo can make the system useless.

• Nintendo has warned the software pirates that could remotely disable their change. The policy change was included in a recent updating of the user contract. Nintendo has a battles story with the software pirates.

Nintendo increases his efforts to combat piracy.

As you prepare to launch the Switch 2The video game giant has updated its user agreement, informing Shift Owners who, if this console containing pirate games or modifications, Nintendo has the right to make the system useless.

The ad, stained by Game archiveHe was buried in a recent update that most users probably did not read. If users “bypass, modify, decipher, defeat, handle or avoid any of the functions or protections of the Nintendo account services,” it is said, Nintendo could make the “applicable Nintendo device permanently unusable in whole or in part”.

Nintendo has a long history of fighting piracy, including emulatory programs, which allow players to play games without the original console (and are often used to play pirate games). Dolphin, an open -source emulator for Nintendo Wii and Gamecube, was a goal of the game giant in 2023 when he announced plans to put his emulator on the Steam game distribution platform. Nintendo sent an order of cessation and withdrawal to Valve, who removed the list. Days later, Dolphin developers announced “It is very disappointed that we must announce that the dolphin where Steam liberation has been postponed indefinitely.”

“Nintendo undertakes to protect the hard work and creativity of video game engineers and developers,” Nintendo spokesman I talked to My city In May 2023.

Last year, the company successfully closed the Emulator of Yuzu, saying that the team behind it had ease (Ed) piracy on a colossal scale. “Yuzu’s team agreed to pay $ 2.4 million and ended all operations.

However, remote deactivation is a new approach. Nintendo, of course, did not detail how it would, but the company regularly issues system updates, which could include the code for snuggling the unauthorized emulators or copies of the games.

This story originally presented to Fortune.com