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It shows people are getting mad just because someone endorsing piracy got their comeuppance instead of what actually matters.
- Just to be clear, you're ok with saddling a disabled person with $14m dollar fine to a multibillion dollar corporation, for the crime of making $300k on a device that allows you to do what you want with your device? It wasn't specifically meant for piracy, there are several good and legitimate reasons to have full control of your device.
  
  What does the person being disabled have to do with anything?
  
  Because he lives in ~~the US~~ Canada, where it's expensive as fuck to just exist as a disabled person.
  
  He actually lives in Canada. Your comment still applies overall as it is not feasible to live adequately on disability here but he's not in the US.
  
  I'm a little confused, because he served time in a US prison. How did that happen?
  
  Canadians serving in US Prisons isn't unheard of. We do have an extradition treaty to the US. Not one that I'm okay with as fuck being beholden to American laws while never stepping foot in the country. However he wasn't even in Canada. He was in the Dominican Republic at the time that he was caught. He was extradited from there to the United States where he served 2 years before being released and repatriated back to Canada.
  
  Person is in Canada and has disability insurance as well as government benefits. Unless the articles are wrong in saying disability insurance.
  Still don’t see how it’s relevant to the story about being fined. Would be the same story for anyone disability or not.
  
  OP corrected me, and I edited my comment to reflect the correction. Still don't see how it's weird to be upset about a company fining the everliving fuck out of a private citizen because the company is anti-ownership.
  
  Because this group actively endorsed and profited from piracy. They made it a job instead of a hobby. Don’t profit from it, that’s like the one thing you don’t do, and they did it.
  Not really a private citizen anymore at that point if you’re making a business.
  
  Ok, so Nintendo should sue the group/company he was a part of and not the individual. The device was for hacking/modding. The fact that pirates used it too is incidental. Nintendo ships games in which you can't even play 4/5 of the game due to a game breaking bug. The only way to access the rest of the game is to mod your ds to get past the bug. There's also software preservation aspects so we don't lose our digital history.
  Honestly, fuck Nintendo. You don't own software even if you buy it, so I'd argue that it's not theft to use software without paying. But I digress.

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