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He made far more than that selling the hack. Weird to be mad about him being fined.
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.
The group made far more than that, and of course he would downplay the amount himself to make his portion look less.
They sold millions of copies of a hardware for over $50. The group made mint and there was 3 of them.
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.
It’s how court cases shake down, especially with plea deals. And what court documents for one thing? Nothing in your links show court documents, just a blurp that also agrees with what I stated.
If you think he made that little with the hack, I don’t know what to say. You also seem to think they can garnish disability benefits, you’re mad over nothing and the wrong things.
But of course you’ll be upvoted since yay piracy! Nothing to do with the actual issue.
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
They profited heavily from and endorsed not just protective piracy, they aren’t innocent, far from it. What they did was actively harmful to the community as a whole as well.
Don’t make a career out of a hobby, that’s why they got burned so hard.
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
The group made millions.
I've heard of thin skinned mods but this is Reddit level. Be better.
Better than what? Go fuck yourself.
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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?
It could be that making an example is sufficient.
They can’t garnish disability benefits, they can only garnish wages.
Ok, that doesn't make it better though.
It shows people are getting mad just because someone endorsing piracy got their comeuppance instead of what actually matters.
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.
Person is in Canada and has disability insurance as well as government benefits. Unless the articles are wrong in saying disability insurance.
Still don’t see how it’s relevant to the story about being fined. Would be the same story for anyone disability or not.
OP corrected me, and I edited my comment to reflect the correction. Still don't see how it's weird to be upset about a company fining the everliving fuck out of a private citizen because the company is anti-ownership.
Because this group actively endorsed and profited from piracy. They made it a job instead of a hobby. Don’t profit from it, that’s like the one thing you don’t do, and they did it.
Not really a private citizen anymore at that point if you’re making a business.
Ok, so Nintendo should sue the group/company he was a part of and not the individual. The device was for hacking/modding. The fact that pirates used it too is incidental. Nintendo ships games in which you can't even play 4/5 of the game due to a game breaking bug. The only way to access the rest of the game is to mod your ds to get past the bug. There's also software preservation aspects so we don't lose our digital history.
Honestly, fuck Nintendo. You don't own software even if you buy it, so I'd argue that it's not theft to use software without paying. But I digress.
disability benefits can’t be garnished. i think it’s ok to be mad at people for spreading misinformation even if they themselves are fighting a just cause. lies like this help nobody.
This. They've made up a dubious analogy between owning physical items and knowledge, and make the "burn the witch" act when you point out that it's unsatisfactory to make laws, and there are plenty of people running around who haven't ever made anything in their lives which would be impeded by IP, so they just support it.
I know a few people who've made IP-worthy things, sometimes published (small-issue), the pattern is that they are against IP (while for them I'd understand having emotional reasons to support it).
Schmidster is a Nintendo corpo cuck just permanently ban em