Spoken like a true Darknet Diaries listener :)
Comment on PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 years agoYeah. It objectively makes little sense that you can google/bing for pirated media and not from other indexes but companies like Google and Microsoft are basically untouchable. I don’t think LW admins have little choice. If you look at the dude who shared Nintendo ROMs you can see that the court was out to set an example and left the services that made people find those ROMs completely alone.
Thanks4Nothing@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Out of the loop, what Nintendo do?
dustyData@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Recently Nintendo closed a lawsuit where the person in question is basically doomed to a lifetime of financial ruin. He was to spend 3 years in prison but was released and owes Nintendo $10 million. Nintendo, the poor indie company, is now entitled to 25% of his income for the rest of his life. Gary Bowser Vs. Nintendo.
quicksand@lemmy.world 2 years ago
His name is fucking Bowser!? He needs to sue Nintendo for infringing on his trademark
Gork@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Hmm, an amount of $10 million to sue Nintendo for trademark infringement sounds fair.
iByteABit@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Fuck Nintendo, jesus
Ganrokh@lemmy.world 2 years ago
In 2018, someone maintaining a ROM site was ordered to pay Nintendo $12 million.
In late 2021, someone was sentenced to 10 years of prison and to pay Nintendo $14.5 million. That person got out on good behavior last April, but 25-30% of their wages are going to be garnished until their debt to Nintendo is paid off - which will likely take the rest of their life.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Sued him (so far nothing irregular) and he has to pay 10 million dollars or something along this magnitude. Bottom line is, he will have to give a good portion of his income for the rest of his life to Nintendo. OK, that guy was kinda stupid and monetized the website through ads but the punishment is still super excessive for something that resulted in no bodily harm for anyone. Meanwhile, the ROM site could be googled and yet Google is still free to allow users to find pirated media. YouTube started as a video piracy platform (not officially, of course, but unlicensed uploads of popular videos were the reason YouTube grew so much). LW admins will not be granted the same luxury.
cottonmon@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Didn’t they monetize the website through subscriptions?
ActuallyRuben@actuallyruben.nl 2 years ago
They sold a physical switch hacking device
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Maybe, maybe not. I didn’t look up the exact details before writing because the overall point remains that courts punish individuals exceptionally hard for copyright offenses.
Thanks4Nothing@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Great summary on this Episode of Darker Diaries from last week
LateSilver@lemmyf.uk 2 years ago
Nintendo aggressively pursues copyright claims, often spuriously.
cottonmon@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Here’s an article that has more details on what happened.
can@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Not enough apparently