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Props for fairly accurately describing what Gary Bowser actually did. Everyone just calls him a pirate when he was basically a middle-man for circumvention hard
by kg 3y ago
Props for fairly accurately describing what Gary Bowser actually did. Everyone just calls him a pirate when he was basically a middle-man for circumvention hardware... AFAIK he's not even a hacker?
- chinaman425 3y ago[dead]
- morelisp 3y agoThat defense is not really believable given the emails that came out. The punishment is egregious (esp. jail time), should've been something like 3x his profits, but the guy definitely sold ROMs (and other people's circumvention software!) (which apparently they added their own switch-bricking anti-circumvention to!) for profit.
- kevingadd 3y agoHe wasn't convicted of any of those things, though. You can look up what the actual conviction was: > The official charges are "Conspiracy to Circumvent Technological Measures and to Traffic in Circumvention Devices" and "Trafficking in Circumvention Devices", both of which are federal felonies in the United States. Perfectly reasonable to assume the worst about the guy, but given that Nintendo is involved I will assume that anything the government couldn't prove is false.