redcalcium@lemmy.institute to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoThe man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy casewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square73linkfedilinkarrow-up1420arrow-down15cross-posted to: gaming@beehaw.org
arrow-up1415arrow-down1external-linkThe man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy casewww.theguardian.comredcalcium@lemmy.institute to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square73linkfedilinkcross-posted to: gaming@beehaw.org
minus-squareSharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33arrow-down3·1 year agoHere’s a fantastic video from an actual lawyer who talks about this case. He implies that Bowser isn’t necessarily innocent, but he is probably the fall guy for a much larger operation. https://youtu.be/j9_1Wl9pjLU?si=tk-6KAjg0FtbJABf
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up63arrow-down1·1 year agoExcept, of course, that he is innocent in the sense that what he did shouldn’t have been a crime to begin with. What he did was nothing more than facilitate console owners’ property right to modify their devices.
minus-squareSharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down3·1 year agoI never stated my opinion on the matter. Just restating what a lawyer is saying about the ruling and why it went the way it did.
minus-squareZink@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoBut the founding fathers put the DMCA in the constitution for a reason! /s
minus-squarePipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoHere is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/j9_1Wl9pjLU?si=tk-6KAjg0FtbJABf Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Here’s a fantastic video from an actual lawyer who talks about this case.
He implies that Bowser isn’t necessarily innocent, but he is probably the fall guy for a much larger operation.
https://youtu.be/j9_1Wl9pjLU?si=tk-6KAjg0FtbJABf
Except, of course, that he is innocent in the sense that what he did shouldn’t have been a crime to begin with.
What he did was nothing more than facilitate console owners’ property right to modify their devices.
I never stated my opinion on the matter. Just restating what a lawyer is saying about the ruling and why it went the way it did.
But the founding fathers put the DMCA in the constitution for a reason!
/s
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/j9_1Wl9pjLU?si=tk-6KAjg0FtbJABf
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.