Gaming > General Gaming Discussion
Pirate pays Nintendo $1.6 Million Settlement
Happy Cat:
--- Quote from: "George" ---Should he be punished? Yes. But should he pay 1.5 million dollars? Fuck no.
--- End quote ---
Agreed, I can't believe all the people that actually think his life should be ruined over this :P
Orta:
Fuck Nintendo. That is my motto. Especially when the company develops games that have mandatory additional "hardware" in order to prevent "piracy". See Wii Sports Bullshit and Wii MotionBullshit for reference.
MadeManG74:
--- Quote from: "Aki-at" ---Looks like Nintendo want to make a particular example out of someone, instead of just demanding all that money from him to me. Don't think they realistically believe he can pay up.
--- End quote ---
I don't know how he's supposed to pay either, seems like they'll have to take a percentage out of his pay until he's like... 80 years old or something. As you said, this is probably a big publicity push, but they might have to reduce the settlement or something.
Not quite sure how settlements are changed/handled, since it's an out of court decision.
Also I find it funny that now he may need to save money by pirating video games instead of buying them.
Sega Uranus:
Nintendo sure has some mighty powerful lawyers. I have no idea how he could be charged this much for that.
Nintendo pretty much owns him now. Poor guy.
Sega Uranus:
Actually, here is a very interesting read, a Kotaku staff writer posted this:
--- Quote ---It's been the biggest human interest story of the week down here, but as the circus draws on, something doesn't feel quite right about it. See, the $1.5 million dollar fine wasn't handed down by a judge. Burt settled out of court with Nintendo on this. Would a 24 year-old man who works part-time at a freight company and lives with his parents really shake hands on a settlement that sees him willingly ruin the rest of his financial life? Then spend the week becoming a temporary "celebrity" as his name is publicly dragged through the mud as a criminal?
I don't think so.
Consider this, then, as a potential scenario: Burt isn't going to owe Nintendo a cent. Or, at least, won't owe them anywhere near $1.5 million. As the publisher is so fond of public displays of aggression against game pirates, I think they settled out of court, slapped a gag order on him, let the media parade him around for a week showing how sorry he was and how hard Nintendo has cracked down on a single, lonely "pirate", and will then let him be, his punishment served, Nintendo's point, well and truly made.
Or am I just looking at this a little too closely?
--- End quote ---
What do you all think?
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version