• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Reminder that poor Gary Bowser was jailed for a year and owes 30% of his income to Nintendo for the rest of his life. He uses a wheelchair and has two kids.

    It would be morally wrong to pirate all future Nintendo titles and pay the cover price to Gary’s gofundme. Please don’t do that.

    • faith@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      Reminder that “poor Gary” was selling pirated roms.

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        11 months ago

        I thought he was selling chips that let you do piracy

        Either way, he and his descendants should be indentured servants to Nintendo. His lineage must be shamed.

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          10 months ago

          yes that was what he was doing was selling Hardware mod chips that you could hook to it to be able to run custom firmware which allowed you to pirate games, the issue stemmed from how they were advertising the project. They weren’t advertising the project as a run your own custom firmware/ backup solution, they were selling the product with the intent that it was being used to pirate

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      11 months ago

      Please don’t conflate an open effort to own your own hardware and data with a closed effort to literally sell access to copyrighted content under the table, and try to launder the profits and commit fraud. Yuzu and Bowser are not the same.