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That's what you call an opsec fail
Yes, but it is also a bit scary / dystopian that a $62 billion company would go to such great lengths to have one of their own customers thrown in jail for using the product that he paid for in a way that wasn't hurting anyone.
He didn't just use the product he paid for in a way that doesn't hurt anybody, he sold pirated Nintendo Switch games. This is literally at the start of the article.
It then becomes very easy to say he took revenue from Nintendo (the "they wouldn't have bought it if it cost money" argument doesn't apply), but above all selling pirated material is a shitty thing to do.
Yep. He sold ROMs. I have no sympathy for privateers in "the scene."
Definitely. It's not even about defending Nintendo.
I hate people who try to profit off of privacy when piracy is available for free.
It reminds me of my university days when people would be selling PDFs of course textbooks...just email a copy of the file!
I don't think he quite did that, actually. From memory he ran a few "shops", but these didn't really sell anything and were just download portals to install pirated games directly from the internet (rather than downloading to a PC first and then copying to an SD card or installing over USB). However, I think he did take donations for early access to new titles, which would have been hard to get elsewhere at first.
Hardly dystopian. They just had someone who understands how tech works on staff.
Yeah. Rule #1 of doing illegal shit on social media. Don't tie that account to your identity.
Did a shit job being a pirate then if he doxxed himself albeit through many clues
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2024
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