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
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.
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.