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Switch hacker Gary Bowser will pay Nintendo ~30% income for the rest of his life

videogameschronicle.com

15 points by gen_greyface 3 years ago · 10 comments

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lostlogin 3 years ago

I had to double check this wasn’t a joke. The bad guy in a Nintendo court case is called Bowser?!

moi2388 3 years ago

It’s still ridiculous you can even be fined for this, let alone go to prison or have to pay Nintendo. We need some serious restructuring (ie abolishment) of patents and trademarks.

droobles 3 years ago

Genuine question, not wanting to start a flamewar, how is this any different then products like GameShark? Is the only difference between Gameshark's success and this mod device the current legal climate? Pretty harsh sentence for tinkering with a hardware device users own, but maybe I'm missing the nuance since this group seems to have been selling the devices for profit, or maybe even modified Nintendo Switch units.

  • dagmx 3 years ago

    GameSharks don’t circumvent DRM. They modify memory in place for a running process. They’re more like a debugger.

    I don’t necessarily agree with the sentencing, just answering your question.

TheLoafOfBread 3 years ago

I mean, he can just setup a company a let anything be paid by company while he formally owns nothing.

Alifatisk 3 years ago

That's very depressing

kangaroozach 3 years ago

Ultimate showdown: Bowser v Bowser.

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