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Nintendo can garnish a dude's wages to the tune of $10M for the rest of his life for IP violations but we can't put the screws on a phone scammer that steals fr
by jabroni_salad 3y ago
Nintendo can garnish a dude's wages to the tune of $10M for the rest of his life for IP violations but we can't put the screws on a phone scammer that steals from our grandmothers? Sheesh.
- skeaker 3y agoTo risk veering off topic, the Nintendo thing gets a bad rep due to how it was reported on when it really is the sort of thing you'd expect HN types to be on board with. The guy stole FOSS code, tweaked it to be malicious (bricking devices that ran homebrew software that he personally did not like), closed off the source code to his tweaks, and sold it for a profit while explicitly advertising it as being used for software piracy. 10M is surely a bit much but the guy was pretty flagrantly wrong both legally and morally.