• dsemy@vlemmy.net
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    1 year ago

    Fuck Gary Bowser and Team Xecuter in general, he doesn’t deserve the punishment he got but I feel no sympathy for him.

    Read up on how they stole GPL’d code from other Switch hackers for their closed source SX OS, and then had the fucking nerve to charge for it.

    Piracy is one thing, but what they did hurt the Switch hacking scene, for their own profit.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know, if I put out GPL software, I wouldn’t give a fuck if it got used to fuck over Nintendo without following all the GPL nonsense. They took the legal risk of going up against Nintendo, I sure as hell didn’t take any risk writing code. Them profiting a bit isn’t the end of the world. No one was going to make any money staying within legal limits anyway, nothing was “stolen”.

      Edit: Just to be clear, all I know about Bowser is based on the parent comment. Maybe he’s a bigger POS than the example given but, from that, doesn’t seem like a major villain.

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        1 year ago

        If that’s the case you probably wouldn’t release GPL software, you’d find a more permissive license, perhaps apache?

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    1 year ago

    Isn’t he basically screwed for the rest of his life though? Having to pay some of his wage to Nintendo

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      Most of his wage. 14.5 million docked from his paychecks for the rest of his life. There’s not much more info in how much will be docked from his pay, as in a percentage or flat cost

      Edit: I read more into it. It’s 25-30% of his paycheck goes to Nintendo.

      https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/04/bowser-free-from-prison-still-owes-nintendo-14-5m-for-switch-hacking/ See at the bottom

      He will die owing Nintendo tens of millions of dollars. Fuck Nintendo

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        I mean it sucks but whats the alternative? Life in jail? He did those things and did cost them 65 million, I’m never one to defend corporations but he is a criminal and deserves some kind of punishment.

        • jtk@lemmy.sdf.org
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          1 year ago

          He didn’t cost them 65 million. That’s a pretend number made up by soulless lawyers. If people could actually do that much “damage” to corporations, we wouldn’t be so beholden to their whims.

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          For an example, I used an emulator to play try Pokémon Arseus (however that’s spelled). I had very little desire to play it in general, but I did want to see what they did with it. It was garbage. I never would have purchased it, especially since I would have had to purchase a Switch too. Did that “cost them money?” Absolutely not. They likely include that in the supposed cost though.

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      1 year ago

      If 30% of his paycheck goes to Nintendo, does that also apply to donations?