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
  • Lad@reddthat.comEnglish
    181·
    10 months ago

    Financially enslaved for life by a corporation. What a sick world we live in. Fuck Nintendo.

  • zqwzzle@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    10 months ago

    If only the legal system would also fine companies many times their earning potential for their infractions.

    • OrangeCorvus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      Well they should have fined Facebook for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a couple of trillions. That would have taught a lot of companies about ethics how to not lose all your money.

      • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        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!?

        • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Me. The people that created my job are fucking morons and have no business creating jobs

  • Toneswirly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    10 months ago

    Lol this man has to be on public services because Nintendo wants him to send them 20 bucks every month for the rest of his life. Fucking petty AND basically passing lots of cost on to taxpayers AND they still will never stop pirates. Fuck Nintendo, yo.

  • LarmyOfLone@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • sir_reginald@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    10 months ago

    What’s funny is that pirates often become paying customers when they can afford it. So it’s not unlikely that Bowser helped stoke the flames of nostalgia in thousands of gamers. And what kind of console do you think those people are going to get for their kids if they ever start a family?

  • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    10 months ago

    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!

  • 5in1k@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    10 months ago

    I would literally attempt to assassinate the head of Nintendo if this happened to me.

    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      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.

  • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    10 months ago

    Let’s change the crime to a pie… I take a pie and leave it out in front of my house on the front of the fence (aka firewall). Now the pie is special because It comes with instructions on how to make it under the plate.

    Mr Gary is walking his dog down the street. His dog torrent smells that pie and grabs the plate carefully bringing it to Mr Gary. Mr Gary is a little embarrassed but hey it’s outside the wall so what could it hurt.

    They get home and Mr Gary eats the pie with his good ol friend torrent, and he notices the recipe. He loves the pie so he gives the recipe to all his friends. Sure the ingredients do cost money but in the case of software they do not. Now everyone is enjoying this new pie flavor and not buying it from Mr Nintendo the pie makers and plumbing company. So Mr Nintendo sues Mr Gary for all the pies that would have been sold. 14million dollars based on the pecan recipe previously sold.

    So who is at fault? Fucking Nintendo! Don’t leave your brand new pies out in the public you dumb asses!

    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      Now, judge Dread suggests…“the fence is still in Mr Nintendo’s Property”… 🤔.! Really?

      Then why does Mr. Google and all his friends go up to my fence to collect cookies when I leave my fence open? Shouldn’t I be able to sue their ass just because I can’t quite close my fence to them?