Pine starts with a brief history of gaming in Brazil and how Nintendo came to identify the South American country, specifically, as a lost cause in terms of battling piracy.

The reason Nintendo makes such dire claims, he states, is due to the impunity of a government that simply does not enforce the law. “We also have good laws regarding homicide, but just 1% of murderers are solved in Brazil. One percent! If Justice doesn’t reach murderers,” he says, “it won’t reach pirates.”