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Did they really make $2.4M? It's a settlement, pretty sure Nintendo can settle for whatever amount.
by 1231232131231 3y ago
Did they really make $2.4M? It's a settlement, pretty sure Nintendo can settle for whatever amount.
- kazinator 3y agoThere is little use in asking the court to award an amount that the defendants cannot pay, and in a copyright suit like this would make the plaintiffs look excessively malicious. That amount must be somehow calculated to fit.
- falcolas 3y ago> There is little use in asking the court to award an amount that the defendants cannot pay Tell that to Gary Bowser. Nintendo absolutely can, and do, request punitive damages that will put the defendants in permanent debt.
- gjsman-1000 3y agoReminder that the settlement against Gary Bowser was from the criminal investigation against him, as was his prison sentence. The civil damages added more for sure, but the US DOJ was a big part of that outcome.
- dark-star 3y agoThey set up a company (LLC) to (presumably) manage the funding. I think the last patreon earnings were around 40k per month or so, but who knows what other means of acquiring money they had with that LLC. I'm sure they didn't pull out that $2.4m from thin air. It might be more than what they actually earned, but then again, their target is a company not a single individual so it makes sense that the total settlement is higher. These are not a couple of hackers interested in coding an emulator for fun. It was a commercial venue designed to extract enough money to earn the main devs a comfortable living. That's a whole different goal. I hate Nintendo for their takedowns and lawyers like everyone else on HN, but I tend to side with them in this case.