The hacker whose involvement with anti-piracy software ended in a jail sentence has emerged from prison struggling to make rent as he starts paying his fine. ‘It could be worse,’ he says
  • zqwzzle@lemmy.caEnglish
    195·
    11 months ago

    If only the legal system would also fine companies many times their earning potential for their infractions.

    • OrangeCorvus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      89·
      11 months ago

      Well they should have fined Facebook for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a couple of trillions. That would have taught a lot of companies about ethics how to not lose all your money.

      • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
        13·
        11 months ago

        Instead we issue paltry fines to corporations. Simply, because we have convinced the public that corporations are job creators. Who doesn’t love a job creator!?

        • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          Me. The people that created my job are fucking morons and have no business creating jobs

  • LarmyOfLone@lemm.eeEnglish
    127·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      261·
      11 months ago

      At this point, I refuse to give Nintendo any money. I love their games, but the way they run their company is horrible. Screwing this guy over is just one point on a very long list.

      • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        61·
        11 months ago

        Honestly if I had heard about this case before I bought my switch I probably would have said the same now I feel like I have a piece of Hardware that I barely use anyway that I feel like I shouldn’t have bought.

        Granted I feel like this is kind of his own fault, not because of his involvement with it but because it seems like he just literally folded without a fight. I think it’s yet actually fought the charges, yes it would have cost time and money in the long run but I don’t think it would be as bad as what the punishment they gave was.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    11 months ago

    14 million dollars. What a stupid and useless punishment, even as an example to others. Cruel and unusual. Anyone going to the piracy level of the crew he was involved in isn’t going to be deterred. They’ll take their chances. All this did was make some dude with a hard life suffer more. That’s multiple lifetimes of money that a billion dollar corporation will never see, or need. Way to go, court system. Ruining a life for no good reason.

  • Lad@reddthat.comEnglish
    871·
    11 months ago

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

  • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
    78·
    11 months ago

    he also, improbably, shares it with Nintendo of America’s current president, Doug Bowser

    Nintendo really has a thing for Bowsers. They arrested one, and have another as its CEO.

  • sir_reginald@lemmy.worldEnglish
    751·
    11 months ago

    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.

  • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    73·
    11 months ago

    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!

  • Furbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
    561·
    11 months ago

    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.

  • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    11 months ago

    You should be allowed to modify your own hardware. Bowser does not “owe” Nintendo, they and the law gave him an offer he can’t refuse.

    • ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      If I was stupidly rich I’d pay the entire fine to nullify the punishment to Gary. It isn’t about the money to Nintendo; it’s about making an example of him.

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    11 months ago

    All that talk about the punishment fitting the crime in the justice system, unless you ruffle the feathers of some rich corporation.