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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?
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.
It was put through the American Legal system. There is absolutely zero reason to believe that the justice system of America actually contains any justice in the first place. Of course they sided with the international corporation to fuck over a disabled 50 year old.
The American legal system has always been there to protect the capitalist class.
Nuh uh, it's also there to punish minorities for existing
That's just a means to an end, convince a part of the working class they should fear the rest, let them fight it out, and continue capitalizing in peace.
It isn't.
I can't speak for all PoC but I can speak for me. It's been screamed for the ages. Maybe not all Dragons care about ideology, but it's the goddamn minority.
The rule is you (the straw billionaire in this scenario) or your Robber Baron grandpappy were able to rise that way by seeing some as subhuman, and others as rubes. They still discuss phrenology and blood poisoning for fuck's sake.
Stop assuming the bulk of The Capitalists don't absolutely abhor the concept of other races sharing their resources. They'd happily make an all-white caste system.
They keep screaming that's what they want.
whatever do you mean? are you suggesting that there are decades of evidence that the us justice system is a bad joke played on the minorities and/or disenfranchised, and then only functions to line/protect the pockets of the upper class and ultra-wealthy? preposterous!
I wish we had lemmy gold... Well this is as good as I got. Lemmy Silver.
I was hoping to see this here.
I like how this used to be a joke about being too cheap to pay for gold, but now that you can't buy it anyway it's as good as anything else.
Of course a silver figurine of Saint Lemmy exists because why not.
We need a silver can of beans to give people
These look like punitive damages designed to dissuade others from repeating what he did.
Nintedo lawyers are second only to Disney Lawyers. Fuck nintendo.
If the lay-flat movement ever needed a figurehead.....
Nah, what's weird is for you to openly lie and make shit up for no reason.
He made $320,000 over a 7 year period.
Source.
So you have no sources other than what you think?
Yeah I'm going to stick with the documents that were shown in legal proceedings, thanks.
So... again... you have no sources other than what you think? Either offer sources that back up your claims or stop making comments that are immediately proven false.
I also did believe that they could because I misread something. That's on me and has been edited. Next time I would also recommend trying to correct someone by acting like an adult instead of whatever this behavior is. Sorry about the mistake but you really could have addressed that with a very different attitude.
Lastly, the actual issue is a misrepresentation on how much lost revenue Nintendo gained from this man. Piracy is a factor. It is not the driving force.
Idk but Fuck Nintendo anyway
Could you elaborate on "harmful to the community" part? It was mentioned in another thread that they could brick the device, but I couldn't find any details, for now at least
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Why is it weird to be mad at a multibillion dollar corporation for garnishing the wages of a disabled person's disability benefits, simply because he was providing the means to do what you want with your device? I don't care what the courts say. It should not be illegal to sell something that allows you to do what you want with your device. Even if that device facilitates piracy. IP isn't real and shouldn't exist in the first place.
I actually didn't know they were directly selling pirated software, I thought it was only about the modding device. However, I'm glad you recognize the extremely excessive nature of the ruling. Do you happen to know why they went after a single individual instead of the whole group?
They can’t garnish disability benefits, they can only garnish wages.
Ok, that doesn't make it better though.
Just to be clear, you're ok with saddling a disabled person with $14m dollar fine to a multibillion dollar corporation, for the crime of making $300k on a device that allows you to do what you want with your device? It wasn't specifically meant for piracy, there are several good and legitimate reasons to have full control of your device.
What does the person being disabled have to do with anything?
Because he lives in ~~the US~~ Canada, where it's expensive as fuck to just exist as a disabled person.
He actually lives in Canada. Your comment still applies overall as it is not feasible to live adequately on disability here but he's not in the US.
I'm a little confused, because he served time in a US prison. How did that happen?
Canadians serving in US Prisons isn't unheard of. We do have an extradition treaty to the US. Not one that I'm okay with as fuck being beholden to American laws while never stepping foot in the country. However he wasn't even in Canada. He was in the Dominican Republic at the time that he was caught. He was extradited from there to the United States where he served 2 years before being released and repatriated back to Canada.
Schmidster is a Nintendo corpo cuck just permanently ban em