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I think their idea is to punish the current owner; but if that is allowed, there also must be some kind of protection for the secondhand market. If there was
by spathi_fwiffo 8y ago
I think their idea is to punish the current owner; but if that is allowed, there also must be some kind of protection for the secondhand market.
If there was some form of serial #check system (like a car's VIN) for the consoles, then it would be harder to re-sell disabled consoles; still wouldn't prevent people from trying to re-sell them, but it would make it more firmly a case of fraud on the sellers' part if they lied about the serial#.
- benologist 8y agoWhy can't they just ban by account? Anyone circumventing bans is going to be committing identity fraud or other crimes so shouldn't they be passing it to law enforcement if they want to pursue it. Switch hardware will likely be resold for decades so it's obviously going to be onerous for consumers that the devices may be invisibly crippled just because they want less copyright infringement. They don't even need to ban accounts permanently, it's pretty disproportionate when you think in years and decades of a device's life.
- crtasm 8y agoIf it's like Sony or Microsoft consoles all you need to make a new account is a different email. You wouldn't have your save games but if you're setup to run unlicensed copies of games maybe you can also transfer those?