The hacker whose involvement with anti-piracy software ended in a jail sentence has emerged from prison struggling to make rent as he starts paying his fine. ‘It could be worse,’ he says
  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    It’s the purchase of video games that sustains Nintendo, and it is the games that make the people smile … It’s for that reason that we do all we can to prevent games on Nintendo systems from being stolen

    Which is why the 75 billion dollar company absolutely had to go through all this trouble to ruin the life of an old man. They’re on a razors edge of near bankruptcy, after all! His having to send Nintendo 25 bucks a month while he was still in prison is our society in a nutshell. Thankfully ruining his life has stopped all Nintendo piracy so it was certainly worth the human cost.

    Here’s his gofundme if you feel for his plight.

  • DacoTaco@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    This post kinda infuriates me. Gary bowser is not an innocent, fragile little guy here. He is the sock puppet of Max Louarn, the basically mob boss of all major piracy groups in the world.
    Gary is also part of the gang ( that max also owns ) that is working on new switch piracy hardware, months after he got out of jail.
    They were also caught selling open source software that was breaking its copyright license, while including their own code that could brick switch systems and more.

    This is not a story of big bad company vs small fragile guy. Not even close.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Okay so it’s a Big Bad Company vs a Small Bad Guy.

      I still don’t see the case here, Nintendo is so rich they could trivially advance to the next system long before the Switch gets fully cracked and those cards become readily buyable. If they wanted to. They don’t, because they make more money not doing it, which should already automatically exclude them from being allowed to ask for actual damages. As in, the criminal case? Sure. The civil lawsuit? Damages should amount to $0, as no presentable damage was caused to a degree where it affected the plaintiff’s ability to do business.