For chilling effect, they can just sue a few ipfs users who happen to be mirrowing the files.
IPFS really needs to move to a darknet. It's a major privacy issue when it's possible to see which user has a file cached (e.g. has used the file).
IPFS really needs to move to a darknet. It's a major privacy issue when it's possible to see which user has a file cached (e.g. has used the file).
Eh, Nintendo doesn't need to be on the right in order to sue.
And has a long history of forcing defendants into awful settlements, through sheer power of being bigger than the target.
Refer to the story of the Yuzu and Citra emulators, for a recent example.
Besides, the IPFS operator/client is always in full control by design. IPFS is not a darknet. You may be confusing it with Hyphanet or Freenet.