Often people who hack Nintendo consoles usually do it not only for their own benefit, they also do it as a business where people send their devices to fill a memory card with games they acquired in a very legal way. Since the ROMS era, it was thought that they didn’t see much movement from the Japanese company, but they were already checking it out and punishing these people in the process.
Known as hackers Gary BowserHe was released from prison last year after being convicted for his collaboration as a member of the Daca group team-executor, which in 2013 began manufacturing and selling devices that allowed users to play illegal ROMs on consoles, including y Switch 3DS. As a result, the people responsible are tracked down, some of them are found and sent to jail, in fact, those who pay the company for life with their salaries.
In an interview known to the media The Guardian, Bowser made the following comments:
This sentence was like a message to other people who are still there, that if they are caught… they will be severely punished.
The hacker was arrested in September 2020 and appeared in court the following year on 11 counts of felony charges for causing harm to third parties who owned Switch consoles during its boom, potentially causing million-dollar losses due to distributed ROMS. Instead of facing trial, he pleaded guilty to two charges and offered to pay Nintendo 4.5 million dollars.
In a separate civil suit, the man was ordered to pay Nintendo An additional $10 million fine for his involvement in selling console mods. This fine, amounting to about 15 million, will leave him without pay for all his life’s work until it finally ends, if he does not leave the plane of existence first.
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Editor’s note: Now we know that hacking Nintendo is a bad idea that will have serious consequences if discovered, even more so when you get charged for doing these illegal things. No way, the boy will spend the rest of his life paying the Japanese company.
