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U.S. Seeks 5-Year Prison Sentence for Nintendo 'Hacker' Gary Bowser
- birdyrooster 5y agoGary Bowser is a great name. Gary being your rival in Pokemon and Bowser being a main boss from Mario.
- Rioghasarig 5y agoThis guy was born to be a Nintendo hacker.
- sidpatil 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
- remarkEon 5y agoI’m assuming Ganon Wario is still out there somewhere.
- Smithalicious 5y agoNominative determinism should be a valid legal defense
- sschueller 5y agoSo then selling lock picking tools is also illegal?
- Crosseye_Jack 5y agoProcession of them outside of your home in a number (5 iirc) of US states without the proper trade licenses _can_ be illegal. In 4 of those states they are “pretty much legal” but you may have issue a defend as to why your procession of them Wasn’t for illegal purposes. https://toool.us/laws.html https://toool.us/laws.html Other states have laws preventing the procession of them if you have prior convictions for things like burglary. But in general, they are pretty much fine to own. Not sure on the state laws surrounding the sale of such tools from a sellers point of view.
- roastedpeacock 5y agoWhile I am no advocate with regards to for-profit piracy, can we get to prosecuting other serious criminals with comparable sentences? (i.e Capitol rioters, price gouging of certain essential supplies during this pandemic, etc)
- satronaut 5y agothe people who set up CHAZ last summer, lying to the FBI to start investigations, and illegal wire tapping would be nice to prosecute too.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoThey are being prosecuted in droves currently, and lots are in the queue. Most are only getting a couple years, but that will basically ruin their lives having a federal felony on their records so it's not like they're getting off easy. Some of the leaders are getting 5+ years for conspiracy and such.
- canti 5y agoSo long, Gary Bowser.
- Maursault 5y agoI don't understand why punishment in hacker cases isn't always the exploitation of the guilty hacker's skills redirected towards societal benefit for extensive periods rather than expensive prosecutions, expensive prison sentences, and ultimately disenfranchisement of a valuable resource. When they catch them, they should just give them a choice, prosecution, or "you work for us for as long as we say," draft them into the Cyber Force as closely watched grunts that can advance with merit, accomplishments and earning trust, with positive reinforcement effectively eliminating recidivism. It is incredibly cheap to keep a hacker happy and producing compared to the cost of prosecution, etc. Granted, the vast majority of criminal "hacks" involve unimpressive retaliations for being mistreated by an employer, but even some of those were impressive, at least among the hacks we know about. I know a few convicted hackers went into security after restitution, but I think we can avoid the expensive and slow process of heavy justice for most of these crimes that entirely happened on computers, where most had little effect on the material world... few were maimed, physically injured, suffered immensely before dying horribly at their hands. Three years is not enough for murdering someone, but 5 years is far too much for anything that happened only on a computer and left no actual legitimately human carnage.
- Smithalicious 5y agoYou make it sound really cool but I think the term you're looking for is "slave labour"
- Maursault 5y agoI think it's properly conscription yet doesn't quite become as bad as prison labor. They'd have better personal security, more freedom, get to choose and keep their own stuff, and access to the world. Compared to prison, a military base is a spa.
- inefficient 5y ago13th amendment makes slave labor legal for those that are imprisoned. And do you make the same argument for community service?
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