Wofls 79 points 2 years ago

That's what you call an opsec fail

path: 0 13511505, hotness: undefined, score: 79, children: 11

Sauerkraut 73 points 2 years ago

Yes, but it is also a bit scary / dystopian that a $62 billion company would go to such great lengths to have one of their own customers thrown in jail for using the product that he paid for in a way that wasn't hurting anyone.

save

path: 0 13511505 13511633, hotness: undefined, score: 73, children: 9

TWeaK 64 points 2 years ago

He didn't just use the product he paid for in a way that doesn't hurt anybody, he sold pirated Nintendo Switch games. This is literally at the start of the article.

It then becomes very easy to say he took revenue from Nintendo (the "they wouldn't have bought it if it cost money" argument doesn't apply), but above all selling pirated material is a shitty thing to do.

save

path: 0 13511505 13511633 13511924, hotness: undefined, score: 64, children: 5

DoucheBagMcSwag 53 points 2 years ago

Yep. He sold ROMs. I have no sympathy for privateers in "the scene."

save

path: 0 13511505 13511633 13511924 13512118, hotness: undefined, score: 53, children: 4

otp 24 points 2 years ago

Definitely. It's not even about defending Nintendo.

I hate people who try to profit off of privacy when piracy is available for free.

It reminds me of my university days when people would be selling PDFs of course textbooks...just email a copy of the file!

save

path: 0 13511505 13511633 13511924 13512118 13513408, hotness: undefined, score: 24, children: 1

TWeaK 1 point 2 years ago

I don't think he quite did that, actually. From memory he ran a few "shops", but these didn't really sell anything and were just download portals to install pirated games directly from the internet (rather than downloading to a PC first and then copying to an SD card or installing over USB). However, I think he did take donations for early access to new titles, which would have been hard to get elsewhere at first.

save

path: 0 13511505 13511633 13511924 13512118 13514520, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 1

sp3tr4l 24 points 2 years ago

Welcome to the mundane, realistic cyberpunk dystopia, hope you paid attention to more than the flashy surface level marketing.

save

path: 0 13511505 13511633 13514354, hotness: undefined, score: 24, children: 0

Mugmoor 5 points 2 years ago

Hardly dystopian. They just had someone who understands how tech works on staff.

save

path: 0 13511505 13511633 13512791, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0

prole 3 points 2 years ago

You might want to look into what this dude was actually doing because he was really stupid. On like over a dozen occasions, he live streamed leaked games, days to weeks before their release.

He also sent Nintendo messages taunting them.

Dude deserves it.

save

path: 0 13511505 13511633 13573514, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0

Imprint9816 13 points 2 years ago

Yeah. Rule #1 of doing illegal shit on social media. Don't tie that account to your identity.

save

path: 0 13511505 13512792, hotness: undefined, score: 13, children: 0

dysprosium 20 points 2 years ago

Did a shit job being a pirate then if he doxxed himself albeit through many clues

save

path: 0 13512160, hotness: undefined, score: 20, children: 0