@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year agoThe man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy casewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1467cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1467external-linkThe man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy casewww.theguardian.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year agomessage-square72fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-squareSharkEatingBreakfastlinkfedilinkEnglish30•1 year agoHere’s a fantastic video from an actual lawyer who talks about this case. He implies that Bowser isn’t necessarily innocent, but he is probably the fall guy for a much larger operation. https://youtu.be/j9_1Wl9pjLU?si=tk-6KAjg0FtbJABf
minus-square@[email protected]BlinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoHere is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/j9_1Wl9pjLU?si=tk-6KAjg0FtbJABf Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish54•1 year 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-squareSharkEatingBreakfastlinkfedilinkEnglish11•1 year 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year agoBut the founding fathers put the DMCA in the constitution for a reason! /s
Here’s a fantastic video from an actual lawyer who talks about this case.
He implies that Bowser isn’t necessarily innocent, but he is probably the fall guy for a much larger operation.
https://youtu.be/j9_1Wl9pjLU?si=tk-6KAjg0FtbJABf
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/j9_1Wl9pjLU?si=tk-6KAjg0FtbJABf
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
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