@redcalcium@lemmy.institute to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agoThe man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy casewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1277arrow-down14cross-posted to: gaming@beehaw.org
arrow-up1273arrow-down1external-linkThe man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy casewww.theguardian.com@redcalcium@lemmy.institute to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square54fedilinkcross-posted to: gaming@beehaw.org
minus-square@grue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish38•2 years 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-squareSharkEatingBreakfastlinkfedilinkEnglish7•2 years 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@Zink@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoBut the founding fathers put the DMCA in the constitution for a reason! /s
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