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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).