redcalcium@lemmy.institute to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoThe man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy casewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10cross-posted to: games@sh.itjust.worksnintendo@lemmy.worldgaming@beehaw.org
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkThe man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy casewww.theguardian.comredcalcium@lemmy.institute to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square72fedilinkcross-posted to: games@sh.itjust.worksnintendo@lemmy.worldgaming@beehaw.org
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months 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-up0·5 months 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-up0·5 months agoBut the founding fathers put the DMCA in the constitution for a reason! /s
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