{"id":61731,"date":"2025-07-13T08:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T08:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/61731\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T08:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T08:06:13","slug":"fbi-shares-official-statement-after-seizure-of-major-switch-rom-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/61731\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Shares Official Statement After Seizure Of Major Switch ROM Site"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nintendo<\/a>Image: Nintendo Life<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, a major Switch ROM site known as ‘nsw2u’ was seized by the FBI as part of a ‘law enforcement operation’.<\/p>\n

Now, we’ve got an official statement from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, highlighting the other sites seized. Here it is in full (via the official FBI website):<\/p>\n

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FBI Atlanta Seizes Major Video Game Piracy Websites<\/strong><\/p>\n

The FBI’s Atlanta Field Office announced today the seizure of several online criminal marketplaces providing pirated versions of popular video games.<\/p>\n

In addition to the seizure, the FBI has dismantled the infrastructure of these websites.<\/p>\n

For more than four years, the websites contained pirated copies of highly anticipated video games days or weeks before their official release date.<\/p>\n

Between February 28, 2025, and May 28, 2025, records indicate a total of 3.2 million downloads occurred on these sites from the most used download service. These actions resulting in an estimated loss of $170 million.<\/p>\n

As part of the actions announced today, the FBI has obtained authorization to seize the domain of multiple sites, to include nsw2u.com, nswdl.com, game-2u.com, bigngame.com, ps4pkg.com, ps4pkg.net, and mgnetu.com. These domains hosted and facilitated access to the pirated video games. Anyone visiting these sites will now view a seizure banner that notifies them the domain has been seized by federal authorities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The FBI would like to thank the Dutch FIOD for their assistance in this investigation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You can find out more about this latest ‘law enforcement’ operation in our previous story here on Nintendo Life:<\/p>\n

If we hear any other significant developments, we’ll let you know.<\/p>\n

[source fbi.gov<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\"Liam<\/p>\n

Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He’s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Nintendo Life Earlier this week, a major Switch ROM site known as ‘nsw2u’ was seized by the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[44358,4630,394,2468,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-61731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-emulation","9":"tag-legal","10":"tag-nintendo","11":"tag-nintendo-switch","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114844898717317176","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}