218 points

If only the legal system would also fine companies many times their earning potential for their infractions.

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Well they should have fined Facebook for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a couple of trillions. That would have taught a lot of companies about ethics how to not lose all your money.

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Instead we issue paltry fines to corporations. Simply, because we have convinced the public that corporations are job creators. Who doesn’t love a job creator!?

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5 points

Me. The people that created my job are fucking morons and have no business creating jobs

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132 points

Legally, he’s not allowed to mess around with modern gaming hardware.

I find these things very disgusting. Not sure if that extends to computers in general. But courts can and have basically prevented “hackers” from taking part in modern life or use the skills they are good at to make ends meet.

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14 points

And make products better

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No one seems to be enforcing that part of his sentence, judging by the fact he recently came out with a new flashcard for the Nintendo switch, and people already found proof he is behind it

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4 points

Free Kevin!

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0 points

He’s dead dude.

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115 points

he also, improbably, shares it with Nintendo of America’s current president, Doug Bowser

Nintendo really has a thing for Bowsers. They arrested one, and have another as its CEO.

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It’s also a character in some of their games! 😅

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You don’t say…

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26 points

It’s true, he’s not lying. I’d know, my dad works for Nintendo.

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106 points

Hey Nintendo, FUCK YOU

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At this point, I refuse to give Nintendo any money. I love their games, but the way they run their company is horrible. Screwing this guy over is just one point on a very long list.

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Honestly if I had heard about this case before I bought my switch I probably would have said the same now I feel like I have a piece of Hardware that I barely use anyway that I feel like I shouldn’t have bought.

Granted I feel like this is kind of his own fault, not because of his involvement with it but because it seems like he just literally folded without a fight. I think it’s yet actually fought the charges, yes it would have cost time and money in the long run but I don’t think it would be as bad as what the punishment they gave was.

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14 million dollars. What a stupid and useless punishment, even as an example to others. Cruel and unusual. Anyone going to the piracy level of the crew he was involved in isn’t going to be deterred. They’ll take their chances. All this did was make some dude with a hard life suffer more. That’s multiple lifetimes of money that a billion dollar corporation will never see, or need. Way to go, court system. Ruining a life for no good reason.

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Just 8.2 lifetimes. No biggie.

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