Arguments that NO ONE is making and shit completely pointless to the actual points people are making. Grousing about "Cyberfart 7022 was so buggy at release, let my Bowser go!" as if that addresses what people have been saying: like it or not, the guy was running a scheme profiting off of copyrighted material that is illegal in the US. Full frakking stop.
Incorrect, look through Gaf history of Nintendo related threads across many years. No i will not be going through those threads for you sorry. Bringing up cyberpunk? Glad we are staying on track lol Dude your obsession with the law being some absolute power is quite funny and comes across as naive. People break the law every day good sir, breaking the law does not result in legal penalisation,getting caught/being endlessly pursued by a powerful entity does. Anyone who has pirated movies/games, partaken in under drinking or smoked substances that may be considered illegal in their country, is very well aware of this. People are in prison in the US right now for possession of cannabis, in states where possession is no longer illegal, but they should stay in prison because they broke the law, "full frakking stop" right? Fuck ethics and morality, why even consider the real world impact of these actions when the law has been broken? The impact he had on their business was microscopic. The impact they have had on his life are completely irreversible. Relatively speaking, the punishment by no means fits the crime, its more comparable to a petty crime. It's like if someone on an average annual income having a few pennies go missing from their account. Should the thief be punished? Ofcourse. Should thier entire lives be destroyed because of it? Not too sure I'd agree with that. $10 mil debt and 40 months in prison is life over for that guy.
Not a single person has done this. Again. Arse-pulling. The overwhelmingly majority of people are either criticizing NINTENDO for pushing this or - while recognizing the sentencing might not even be what NINTENDO wants - pointing out that copyright law isn't ambiguous in regards to profiting off of piracy. None of the responses so far - even the snarky ones laughing at the guys misfortune - have been advocating for NINTENDO or this sentence in the way you are suggesting.
Incorrect again, many people have supported this action. Saying people applauded Nintendo might have been hyperbole on my part but ppl people are very clearly happy with this outcome. You are stoically defending it right now.
You have quite literally been doing this the entire thread.
Addressing someone's thoughts is, by nature, not dismissing them. Statements like "like it or not, the guy was running a scheme profiting off of copyrighted material that is illegal in the US. Full frakking stop", are highly dismissive. Your argument rests solely on the infallibility of the law, like your some Judge Dredd cartoon ("I AM THE LAW"), but yet you wholeheartedly dismissed every counter point regarding ethics and morality, which are typically pretty relevant points when discussing the lives of human beings.
Feel free to have the last word brother, I'm out.
