• QuaffPotions@lemmy.world
      310·
      10 months ago

      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.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    52·
    10 months ago

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

  • Corroded@leminal.spaceEnglish
    491·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • threethan@reddthat.com
    424·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • yamanii@lemmy.world
      40·
      10 months ago

      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.

  • Pfnic@feddit.ch
    37·
    10 months ago

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

    • Fades@lemmy.world
      434·
      10 months ago

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

      • AeonFelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        Does a GoFundMe count as “income”, or will Nintendo try to take 100% of it, in addition to 30% from his actual income?

        • Patches@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          10 months ago

          Why would it count as anything but income?

          GoFundMe isn’t some magical charity. It’s just online begging.

          • AeonFelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            One could also think of it as capital gains, since it grows in value when people “invest” in it. Nintendo’s lawyers may claim that because of that it should not be considered an income but an “asset” that they can take in its entirety to cover some of the debt.

            Then again - if that GoFundMe can actually cover the entire fine, that could turn out to be a good thing. Yes, we’ll be giving money to Nintendo, but Nintendo does not really need that money. What they want is to ruin that man’s life in order to send a message. If the public can un-ruin that life, that would send an opposite message - and a signal backed by money, too.

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 months ago

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

    • Stamets@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      10 months ago

      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.