redcalcium@lemmy.institute to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoThe man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy casewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-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.comredcalcium@lemmy.institute to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square56fedilinkcross-posted to: gaming@beehaw.org
minus-squareSharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·10 months 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-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·10 months 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-squareSharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·10 months 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-squareZink@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoBut the founding fathers put the DMCA in the constitution for a reason! /s
minus-squarePipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months 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.
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
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
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.