Utterly insane

Idk about always But my rule of thumb is If they don't sell the games anymore Then pirate away
I want to agree with this, but I don't. It presupposes that piracy harms the publisher. If you go by the premise that free info sharing is ultimately good for the creator or publisher, then it's arguably morally better for people to turn their backs on Nintendo all together and put their time and energy into makers who aren't so hostile.

"This is what you get for having the name Bowser without our express written consent."

"And not being related to Doug Bowser, who we currently own as well"

I hope Garry becomes a monk that makes no wage. At that point there's literally no point in continuing waged work

He was interviewed/was the topic of a Darknet Dairies Podcast. It's his side of the story as well as some of the facts around the case. Don't know how accurate it is, but it is interesting all the same.
Episode 136
At this point, I'm pretty sure I'd just fake my own death.
- I would real my own death. Probably in the lobby of a Nintendo corporate office.

wat

He was part of a team that created devices allowing people to play what they wanted on switch, 3DS and some other consoles. He was convicted of fraud and imprisoned for two years before being released. He still has to pay off a fine of 10 million dollars so Nintendo is garnishing his wages for the rest of his life. Which pisses me off because he's on Disability in Canada which is barely enough to live on (trust me...) and also taxpayer funds. Not to mention that there is no way in fucking hell that his part in all of this adds up to $10 million dollars in lost revenue for Nintendo which is exactly why that fine was applied.
Edit: Apparently disability can't be garnished. Was a slight fuck up on my end. I had misremembered something and misread something which led to that. Nonetheless, situation still massively fucked for applying a $10 million (well, 14.5 million but 10 million of that is for Nintendo) fine for a dude who made $320,000 off of the hacks. However if he did make any money outside of Disability, they would immediately be entitled to 30% of it. Fucking insane.
- I get that they have to protect their IP, but $14m is insane. Feels like the judge threw the book, switch, 3DS and every other console they could find at him. Does he have no right of appeal against the sentence?
  When Bowser was first sentenced, Nintendo's lawyer Ajay Singh said in a court transcript (via Axios) that the company wanted to "send a message" to other Switch hackers.
  Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought sentencing was supposed to reflect the severity of the crime and make fair restitution? It sounds as if this sentence / restitution was massively inflated to create a deterrant, to benefit a private business. Huge fail from Nintendo imo that only makes me want to never buy one of their games or consoles again.
- Nintedo lawyers are second only to Disney Lawyers. Fuck nintendo.
- If the lay-flat movement ever needed a figurehead.....
- Why are pirates not protecting themselves properly? Or why are they not operating frome countries where they can't get caught?

That situation is fucked and I'm definitely siding with Gary. He deserves so much better. Fuck Sintendo

Here is a Darknet Diaries episode about it where Garry Bowser talks about that and his history of modding devices and Team Executer

Pretty interesting if you have an hour and a half to kill.

Not saying that the punishment is proportional, but this guy isn't exactly a hero.

Team Executor stole open source code from the Atmosphere project and then sold it as SXOS with added DRM that could permanently brick systems.

Yeah but not "30% of his income for the rest of his life" evil, even more so since I think he wasn't even a dev on the project but just a web master for their site.

For the rest of his life?? How the fuck would this even be enforceable?

Don’t discount the impact of living in a capitalist nightmare

Emudeck my beloved. Fuck this company.

If he started a GoFundMe id donate a few dollars

If I wasn't broke as fuck that is.

You'd willingly give Nintendo 30% of that GoFundMe?
- Does a GoFundMe count as "income", or will Nintendo try to take 100% of it, in addition to 30% from his actual income?

Is he related to Doug Bowser?

Seriously, what are the odds? I was really confused as to why Nintendo was going after their own all of a sudden.

This makes a lot of Bowsers related to Nintendo !

Nintendo is fucking C A N C E L L E D! Lmao

I see nothing wrong with this but I have less than zero sympathy for anyone that profits off of piracy.

I would agree in the case of reselling pirated content, as a core piracy principle is that data itself has no value and can be given away for free. Once you start selling it, you're just a thief.
But he was part of a modchip team selling physical hardware. They manufactured a real product that was not itself pirated, and users had the choice to use the devices for homebrew or even to not install them at all.
This case is literally like blaming a gun manufacturer for murder.
- data itself has no value
  Programming: the art of creating worthless things and still getting paid for it.
- if data has no value then why do people want it so bad?
"Better protect the sweet, innocent (totally never misused the court system before) multi-billion dollar corporations. ESPECIALLY NINTENDO"
Hot take
- I pirate the absolute shit out of Nintendo games and everything else. My issue isn't with the piracy, it's with people profiting off of piracy. Those people can get fucked and I love to see it.
You must be on a speedrun for downvotes to leave that comment on Lemmy of all places.
- I'll take my lumps in this case. Gary Bowser is a piece of trash for a plethora of reasons. The precedence this case sets is honestly pretty terrible but the punishment couldnt have happened to a better person.
He should be made to repay Nintendo for every dollar they can prove he cost them
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they are not jesus to spend their own cost for operations. sometimes they spend a lots of time too.