[Gaming News] One of the Biggest Switch Piracy Websites Seized by FBI

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Nintendo Switch piracy website NSw2u has been taken offline following a mid-July seizure by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI has thus taken out one of the largest hosts of illegal Switch ROMs on the internet, which has been operational for nearly five years.

While most modern consoles tend to resist piracy for years after release, the Switch was hacked unusually quickly. Its first public jailbreak became possible due to a hardware vulnerability in the Nvidia Tegra X1 chip, discovered within less than a year of its March 2017 release. After the flaw was publicized in April 2018, groups like Team Xecuter began releasing custom firmware that allowed users to rip ROMs and play pirated games. 

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