Waypoint: Nintendo wanted to make an exemple out of Gary Bowser, Switch hacker who was sentenced for 40 weeks and $4,5mi
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How tf was Nintendo able to find one person with the name Bowser, let alone TWO lol
But yeah this is absolutely awful.
But yeah this is absolutely awful.
its a really fucked up story, iirc its just a dude living I think in the Dominican Republic who was hired by some pirate fuckwits to do some shit, they barely paid him but because his name was over everything Nintendo went in hard against him.
iirc the court documents showed Bowser made only $320k over 7 years while the other people involved made $20m+ but most just vanished after the lawsuits started going out
iirc the court documents showed Bowser made only $320k over 7 years while the other people involved made $20m+ but most just vanished after the lawsuits started going out
Sounds like Nintendo. They treat their stuff like its made of platinum.
There are a surprising amount of Bowsers involved with Nintendo huh
Read this earlier. They really fucked that dude up physically, emotionally & financially.
Really messed up, even more so knowing he was only the front man and not the one doing the hacking.
Really messed up, even more so knowing he was only the front man and not the one doing the hacking.
Sending a message by imprisoning and destroy the life of a hacker, while the DOJ refuses to prosecute people who tried to do a coup and hang people.
"Ajay Singh, Nintendo of America's representative, lamented the idea that parents will "be forced to explain to their children why people cheat and why sometimes games are not fair just because one person wants an unfair advantage." Singh goes on to claim that this case, and any future cases attacking piracy, will work to protect the broader gaming "community," in which smaller developers operate on "slim margins."
To hide behind this rhetoric is extremely cowardly for a multi-billion dollar company.
To hide behind this rhetoric is extremely cowardly for a multi-billion dollar company.
I'm sure that hacker negatively impacted their record breaking sales ever so slightly, so very justified
really got to them by selling boatloads of hardware and software. same with the wii, which sold crazy hardware and software, and was even easier to pirate than DS lmao
like the idea that they look at piracy as some boogeyman after the debacle of the n64/gamecube in comparison is hilarious to me
This is Aaron Swartz happening again, to refresh to everyone that the legal system exists to serve and protect the economic power and the elites first and foremost.
Really, really gross shit from Nintendo. Not at all unexpected, though, they're the worst when it comes to litigiousness.
Really, really gross shit from Nintendo. Not at all unexpected, though, they're the worst when it comes to litigiousness.
Look at how completely devastated nintendo is right now thanks to his heinous actions. It's only fair that they destroy this mans life in return. If anything i think justice was too lax, why are his parents, friends and everyone he crossed once on the streets getting away scotfree? Should destroy Dominican Republic while youre at it too, he lived there, the entire country is tainted.
Really starting to hate Nintendo of America. First there was that contractor fiasco in April, now there's this? Fucking hell.
The fact that they tried to frame this verdict as "finally coming down on white collar criminals" is so fucking infuriating.
