Dear Nintendo: LOL at thinking you’re deterring anybody. I frankly don’t give a damn about the optics of the whole thing, but I haven’t seen a single bust like this that has lead to piracy having more than a small hiccup due to needing to find yet another willing hacker. A waste of time and resources that both won’t…

He was arrested in the Dominican Republic, not that this article bothered to include that with the juicy quote.

oh no they enabled people that probably can’t otherwise afford these things to afford them, whatever shall we do

Fuck with a corporation’s ‘profits’ by modding other people’s property, with their permission, of course, so they can bypass said corporation’s draconian ‘anti-piracy’ bullshit, and the law will destroy your life. Forever.

Nintendo doesn’t dictate what show of force law enforcement uses. FBI arrests people all the time with their guns drawn, even for white-collar or non-violent crimes. Law enforcement agencies have their own policies. They don’t always know the full details behind the charge either, so they just know the law the person…

“stealing from a multi-billion dollar worldwide corporation is not a good idea”
what did he steal?

On the one hand, he fucked around and found out. You have to know that stealing from a multi-billion dollar worldwide corporation is not a good idea, unless you’re also a multi-billion dollar worldwide corporation which also has platoons of lawyers and a bottomless slush fund that will do its best to ensure that…

And thats when you realize that there is no human race... only a buntch of animals fighting and running blindly for digits $$$. I think there were better ways of teaching him a lesson (and sending the msg to other hackers), but then it would require the animals at nintendo to be humans. What a world we live in...

So its, “So long, Gary Bowser?”