The man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy case
The man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy case
The hacker whose involvement with anti-piracy software ended in a jail sentence has emerged from prison struggling to make rent as he starts paying his fine. ‘It could be worse,’ he says
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Imagine owing someone 30% of your income for the rest of your life because you had the audacity to modify people's property that they owned with their consent. Nintendo will never see another red penny from me, entirely because of this case.
Let's not pretend Team Xecuter was in the CFW and modding scene for honest reasons. The only two things they did were sell a for-profit modchip that uses voltage glitching to enable arbitrary code executing during the pre-boot process, and sell their for-profit, tivoized operating system. Speaking of which, SxOS is a license-violating, reskinned, rebranded version of the GPLv2 open-source Atmosphère operating system, with piracy patches applied out of the box.
Nintendo sucks, but so does TX. Credit shouldn't be given to those greedy fucks, but instead to the people who worked hard to break open the Switch solely for the sake of making homebrew possible: ReSwitched, SwitchBrew, and the Atmosphère maintainers.
That's a lot of words that continue to not convince me that a 54 year old man with physical disabilities should be made to pay hundreds of dollars a month to a multi billion dollar corporation. I don't care if he personally broke into Nintendo's headquarters and stole games right out of their servers, it is fucked that this corporation can take 14 months of his life and 30% of the rest of his income forever. If he was a millionaire, maybe, but the guy is having trouble paying for physical therapy ffs.
Don't get me wrong here. I don't think Bowser deserves that level of punishment, either. Xecuter used him as a fall guy, and Nintendo royally screwed him by making an example out of him. There is a victim, but there are no heroes in this story.
All I ask is that TX is acknowledged for what they are: a group of money-hungry individuals that actively steal from and do nothing to contribute to the Switch homebrew community. Credit should be given to the people that actually deserve it, and not them.