Nintendo Wins $4. 5 M Judgment Against Switch Pirate Archbox
September 25, 2026
A federal court in Washington has ordered James C. Williams, the Switch piracy operator known online as Archbox, to pay Nintendo of America $4. 5 million in damages. The default judgment entered in September 2026 ends a copyright case Nintendo filed in June 2024 over pirate game shops and circumvention tools built around the Nintendo Switch. …