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
That’s a lot of words that continue to not convince me that a 54 year old man with physical disabilities should be made to pay hundreds of dollars a month to a multi billion dollar corporation. I don’t care if he personally broke into Nintendo’s headquarters and stole games right out of their servers, it is fucked that this corporation can take 14 months of his life and 30% of the rest of his income forever. If he was a millionaire, maybe, but the guy is having trouble paying for physical therapy ffs.
Don’t get me wrong here. I don’t think Bowser deserves that level of punishment, either. Xecuter used him as a fall guy, and Nintendo royally screwed him by making an example out of him. There is a victim, but there are no heroes in this story.
All I ask is that when it comes to giving anyone credit for Switch modding, it should go to the people that actually did the hard work. ReSwitched are the ones that made it possible for us to modify our Switches and run homebrew, while TX steals, repackages, and sells their code without contributing to the homebrew scene in the slightest.
That’s a lot of words that continue to not convince me that a 54 year old man with physical disabilities should be made to pay hundreds of dollars a month to a multi billion dollar corporation. I don’t care if he personally broke into Nintendo’s headquarters and stole games right out of their servers, it is fucked that this corporation can take 14 months of his life and 30% of the rest of his income forever. If he was a millionaire, maybe, but the guy is having trouble paying for physical therapy ffs.
Don’t get me wrong here. I don’t think Bowser deserves that level of punishment, either. Xecuter used him as a fall guy, and Nintendo royally screwed him by making an example out of him. There is a victim, but there are no heroes in this story.
All I ask is that when it comes to giving anyone credit for Switch modding, it should go to the people that actually did the hard work. ReSwitched are the ones that made it possible for us to modify our Switches and run homebrew, while TX steals, repackages, and sells their code without contributing to the homebrew scene in the slightest.