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I see nothing wrong with this but I have less than zero sympathy for anyone that profits off of piracy.
I would agree in the case of reselling pirated content, as a core piracy principle is that data itself has no value and can be given away for free. Once you start selling it, you're just a thief.
But he was part of a modchip team selling physical hardware. They manufactured a real product that was not itself pirated, and users had the choice to use the devices for homebrew or even to not install them at all.
This case is literally like blaming a gun manufacturer for murder.
Programming: the art of creating worthless things and still getting paid for it.
Well, no cost to replicate, anyways. I'm a strong believer that if you get value from something you should pay for it, but in my youth I did pirate a lot of games and media because I didn't have the disposable income for it. No sales were lost.
I still do pirate games I own. My daughter pretty much has exclusive use of my Switch now so I play my Switch games on PC. Honestly I will buy games and then never play the official copy, and download the ROMs to run at 1440/120FPS on PC.
Ironic that Xecuter got busted for Switch modchips when emulators now do a better job than the Switch itself.
I also only pirate games I own, though for slightly different reasons. I don't think you should pay for everything you get value from (I don't [directly] pay people back for gifts, for example,) but I do think it's theft to pirate a game you never bought. Plus, buying games is how you support the developers.
Kind of makes sense if you view the program as a service. Many programs could be interpreted as contained, executable, repeatable services. Either way they're so abstract compared to lots of other goods and services that they're gonna be their own niche kind of commodity anyway.
if data has no value then why do people want it so bad?
This is nothing like a company selling a weapon specifically designed to kill people being used for the thing it's designed to do...
"Better protect the sweet, innocent (totally never misused the court system before) multi-billion dollar corporations. ESPECIALLY NINTENDO"
Hot take
I pirate the absolute shit out of Nintendo games and everything else. My issue isn't with the piracy, it's with people profiting off of piracy. Those people can get fucked and I love to see it.
So your base issue isn't theft... it's rampant capitalism?
More like a strict belief that piracy should be free. In Gary's case, charging money for sxos and adding DRM to it is what really bothers me though I will admit that I don't like the precedence this case sets.
A friendly reminder: SxOS is a mostly ripped off version of the FOSS CFW, Atmosphere.
I don't care that they sold hardware for a profit, but they can go fuck themselves for TIVOing open source software and pretending it was all their own original work.
You must be on a speedrun for downvotes to leave that comment on Lemmy of all places.
I'll take my lumps in this case. Gary Bowser is a piece of trash for a plethora of reasons. The precedence this case sets is honestly pretty terrible but the punishment couldnt have happened to a better person.
What are those reasons? What precedent does it set?
He should be made to repay Nintendo for every dollar they can prove he cost them
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they are not jesus to spend their own cost for operations. sometimes they spend a lots of time too.