Let’s change the crime to a pie… I take a pie and leave it out in front of my house on the front of the fence (aka firewall). Now the pie is special because It comes with instructions on how to make it under the plate.
Mr Gary is walking his dog down the street. His dog torrent smells that pie and grabs the plate carefully bringing it to Mr Gary. Mr Gary is a little embarrassed but hey it’s outside the wall so what could it hurt.
They get home and Mr Gary eats the pie with his good ol friend torrent, and he notices the recipe. He loves the pie so he gives the recipe to all his friends. Sure the ingredients do cost money but in the case of software they do not. Now everyone is enjoying this new pie flavor and not buying it from Mr Nintendo the pie makers and plumbing company. So Mr Nintendo sues Mr Gary for all the pies that would have been sold. 14million dollars based on the pecan recipe previously sold.
So who is at fault? Fucking Nintendo! Don’t leave your brand new pies out in the public you dumb asses!
Now, judge Dread suggests…“the fence is still in Mr Nintendo’s Property”… 🤔.! Really?
Then why does Mr. Google and all his friends go up to my fence to collect cookies when I leave my fence open? Shouldn’t I be able to sue their ass just because I can’t quite close my fence to them?
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.
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.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
He got briefly caught up with the law during a stint fixing games consoles at flea markets, which nearly implicated him alongside vendors who sold pirated movies.
It was here that Bowser – who, in a case of nominative determinism that feels almost too trite to acknowledge, shares a name with Super Mario’s in-game antagonist – started becoming the face of Nintendo piracy.
In the late 00s he made contact with Team Xecuter, a group that produces dongles used to bypass anti-piracy measures on Nintendo Switch and other consoles, letting them illegally download, modify and play games.
While he says he was only paid a few hundred dollars a month to update their websites, Bowser says the people he worked with weren’t very social and he helped “testers” troubleshoot devices.
“And suddenly I wake up and see three people surrounding my bed with rifles aimed at my head … they dragged me out of the place, put me in the back of a pickup truck and drove me to the Interpol office.”
While inside, Bowser couldn’t always get the medical attention he needed, he claims, and even when he did, the realities of prison still exacerbated his health issues – he has elephantiasis in his left leg.
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I’m always surprised with the enormous show of force in cases like this. I would imagine sending him a letter informing him that he and his lawyer need to show up at the police/fbi/otherAlphabetAgency office on date X would have been sufficient.
Ruby Ridge.
Waco. They sent in fucking tanks, burnt the place down, with kids inside.
Those are two off the top of my head.
With Ruby Ridge the FBI entrapped him, then shot his dog, and then his son who was protecting his dog. Then his wife.
Every cocksucker FBI agent involved should be on billboards, then hanged (the old fashioned way) on the White House lawn.
Hasbro sent the literal Pinkertons after a Youtuber over Magic cards recently.
Bowser says the people he worked with weren’t very social and he helped testers" troubleshoot devices.
"And suddenly I wake up and see three people surrounding my bed with rifles aimed at my head …
Wow, that escalated quickly
I was shocked too. You really think some nerd who updates websites needs a SWAT team to take him down?! American police are crazy don’t listen to me, they’re not American!
Those were police in the Dominican Republic. He’s a Canadian national but was living there.
I’ve learned from this community that piracy isn’t theft, yet Nintendo’s attorney said to the court, “It’s for that reason that we do all we can to prevent games on Nintendo systems from being stolen.”
Why is the attorney allowed to lie to the court? Shouldn’t he be disbarred and prosecuted himself?
Is no one going to comment on how ironic it is that the guy’s name is Bowser?
