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Toneswirly ,

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.

yesdogishere ,

yup this is a really good reason to never ever buy or support Nintendo ever again. Filthy rotten company.

UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT ,

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?

poopkins ,

I've learned from this community that piracy isn't theft, yet Nintendo's attorney said to the court, "It’s for that reason that we do all we can to prevent games on Nintendo systems from being stolen."

Why is the attorney allowed to lie to the court? Shouldn't he be disbarred and prosecuted himself?

laverabe ,

why the hell doesn't he just declare bankruptcy and move on? That's what those laws are for.

festus ,

Not a lawyer, but bankruptcy laws sometimes won't apply to criminal penalties / restitution.

Clbull ,

People like Gary Bowser are the reason why we need copyright reform.

Defaced ,

Darknet diaries had a really good episode on this guy and his mod chip business. It's really fascinating stuff, but Nintendo really ruined his life.

werefreeatlast ,

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 ,

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?

5in1k ,

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

dangblingus ,

Reggie disliked that.

AFC1886VCC ,

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

sir_reginald , (edited )
@sir_reginald@lemmy.world avatar

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.

phoneymouse ,

Link to his gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/garyopa-restarting-his-life

J12 ,

Don’t donate too much, Nintendo’s gonna take that shit.

Dude needs to move to a country without Nintendo jurisdiction and restart the GoFundMe. I’d give the dude $100. Fuck Nintendo over that.

erwan ,

He only has to pay 20% of his left over after expenses like rent.

And if the GoFundMe reaches the amount he owes, he'll be a free man.

HerbalGamer ,
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Stop defending Nintendo here.

laurelraven ,

How is that defending Nintendo?

HerbalGamer ,
@HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works avatar

Defending the system, whatever.

laurelraven ,

They didn't do that either? It looks like they're just pointing out that you can actually help him without all the money going to Nintendo, which is what they look like they're responding to appears to be saying

deur ,

How DARE that user prevent the spread of misinformation and add valuable context. They should be ashamed for being such a naughty little corporate shill!

rab ,
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Stop smoking the herbs my friend

Furbag ,

More proof that justice is a multi-tiered system in America. Restrictions over cruel and unusual punishment don't apply to to the bottom rung of society when you have made the mistake of offending a rich capitalist or corporation.

LarmyOfLone ,

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.

recapitated ,

And make products better

Zink ,

Free Kevin!

BrownianMotion ,
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He's dead dude.

anivia ,

No one seems to be enforcing that part of his sentence, judging by the fact he recently came out with a new flashcard for the Nintendo switch, and people already found proof he is behind it

brbposting ,

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!

Mango ,

Maybe we should crowd fund someone who will pay for everything for this guy while it's not technically his money so a part time nothing job can cover the technicality of him needing to pay Nintendo.

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