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The man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy case (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 8 months ago by picandocodigo to c/nintendo

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[–] DacoTaco 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

This post kinda infuriates me. Gary bowser is not an innocent, fragile little guy here. He is the sock puppet of Max Louarn, the basically mob boss of all major piracy groups in the world.
Gary is also part of the gang ( that max also owns ) that is working on new switch piracy hardware, months after he got out of jail.
They were also caught selling open source software that was breaking its copyright license, while including their own code that could brick switch systems and more.

This is not a story of big bad company vs small fragile guy. Not even close.

[–] Carighan 8 points 8 months ago

Okay so it's a Big Bad Company vs a Small Bad Guy.

I still don't see the case here, Nintendo is so rich they could trivially advance to the next system long before the Switch gets fully cracked and those cards become readily buyable. If they wanted to. They don't, because they make more money not doing it, which should already automatically exclude them from being allowed to ask for actual damages. As in, the criminal case? Sure. The civil lawsuit? Damages should amount to $0, as no presentable damage was caused to a degree where it affected the plaintiff's ability to do business.

[–] A7thStone 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like someone is salty that they bricked their switch.

[–] DacoTaco 4 points 8 months ago

Nope. My switch is fine. Played diablo 1 on it recently too :p