If only the legal system would also fine companies many times their earning potential for their infractions.
Well they should have fined Facebook for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a couple of trillions. That would have taught a lot of companies about
ethicshow to not lose all your money.Instead we issue paltry fines to corporations. Simply, because we have convinced the public that corporations are job creators. Who doesn’t love a job creator!?
Me. The people that created my job are fucking morons and have no business creating jobs
Legally, he’s not allowed to mess around with modern gaming hardware.
I find these things very disgusting. Not sure if that extends to computers in general. But courts can and have basically prevented “hackers” from taking part in modern life or use the skills they are good at to make ends meet.
And make products better
No one seems to be enforcing that part of his sentence, judging by the fact he recently came out with a new flashcard for the Nintendo switch, and people already found proof he is behind it
Free Kevin!
He’s dead dude.
he also, improbably, shares it with Nintendo of America’s current president, Doug Bowser
Nintendo really has a thing for Bowsers. They arrested one, and have another as its CEO.
It’s also a character in some of their games! 😅
You don’t say…
It’s true, he’s not lying. I’d know, my dad works for Nintendo.
Hello, cousin!
Hello Mr Bowser.
Hey Nintendo, FUCK YOU
At this point, I refuse to give Nintendo any money. I love their games, but the way they run their company is horrible. Screwing this guy over is just one point on a very long list.
Honestly if I had heard about this case before I bought my switch I probably would have said the same now I feel like I have a piece of Hardware that I barely use anyway that I feel like I shouldn’t have bought.
Granted I feel like this is kind of his own fault, not because of his involvement with it but because it seems like he just literally folded without a fight. I think it’s yet actually fought the charges, yes it would have cost time and money in the long run but I don’t think it would be as bad as what the punishment they gave was.
14 million dollars. What a stupid and useless punishment, even as an example to others. Cruel and unusual. Anyone going to the piracy level of the crew he was involved in isn’t going to be deterred. They’ll take their chances. All this did was make some dude with a hard life suffer more. That’s multiple lifetimes of money that a billion dollar corporation will never see, or need. Way to go, court system. Ruining a life for no good reason.
Just 8.2 lifetimes. No biggie.
Financially enslaved for life by a corporation. What a sick world we live in. Fuck Nintendo.
fuck paying Nintendo for life. I hope he can move to a country where Nintendo won’t be able to enforce anything and start a new life. He committed a victimless crime which shouldn’t even be a crime IMO and even worse, he was imprisoned for it. And now he has to live as a slave for Nintendo the rest of his life?
I don’t really know which countries would legally shield him from Nintendo’s bullshit tho.
Bowser maintains that he could have fought the allegations, and that other members of the hacking group remain at large. … It was easier, he claims, to plead guilty … Bowser now has to send Nintendo 20-30% of any money left over after he pays for necessities such as rent.
… Bowser … thinks that after rent, he has a couple of hundred dollars leftover for food and other necessities. He assumes he’ll be turning to food support services.
Love charities supporting Nintendo. Good making an example out of him! That’ll teach future hackers to use TOR, I mean not do it!
More proof that justice is a multi-tiered system in America. Restrictions over cruel and unusual punishment don’t apply to to the bottom rung of society when you have made the mistake of offending a rich capitalist or corporation.
I feel sorry for the poor bastard
You should be allowed to modify your own hardware. Bowser does not “owe” Nintendo, they and the law gave him an offer he can’t refuse.
People like Gary Bowser are the reason why we need copyright reform.
Won’t someone please think about Nintendo!?
I wonder if they send a person out to make sure he is eating gruel.
If I was stupidly rich I’d pay the entire fine to nullify the punishment to Gary. It isn’t about the money to Nintendo; it’s about making an example of him.
All that talk about the punishment fitting the crime in the justice system, unless you ruffle the feathers of some rich corporation.
Here’s a fantastic video from an actual lawyer who talks about this case.
He implies that Bowser isn’t necessarily innocent, but he is probably the fall guy for a much larger operation.
Except, of course, that he is innocent in the sense that what he did shouldn’t have been a crime to begin with.
What he did was nothing more than facilitate console owners’ property right to modify their devices.
I never stated my opinion on the matter. Just restating what a lawyer is saying about the ruling and why it went the way it did.
But the founding fathers put the DMCA in the constitution for a reason!
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