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The man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy case (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

I'm always surprised with the enormous show of force in cases like this. I would imagine sending him a letter informing him that he and his lawyer need to show up at the police/fbi/otherAlphabetAgency office on date X would have been sufficient.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hasbro sent the literal Pinkertons after a Youtuber over Magic cards recently.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Don’t worry, if a big corporation would have defrauded him for a few millions, I’m sure they would have gotten a letter.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Ruby Ridge.

Waco. They sent in fucking tanks, burnt the place down, with kids inside.

Those are two off the top of my head.

With Ruby Ridge the FBI entrapped him, then shot his dog, and then his son who was protecting his dog. Then his wife.

Every cocksucker FBI agent involved should be on billboards, then hanged (the old fashioned way) on the White House lawn.

[+] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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[+] Nommer -7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

a religious cult that was armed to the teeth, who refused to surrender to the police in a 50+ day siege and had prepped their own compound with flammables.

That's all very likely propaganda spread by the FBI after shit went down. Incidentally these two collosal fuck ups is what inspired the unibomber.

Loving the downvotes. Educate yourselves before hitting that button.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yea, they were a bit cultish, but most of the propaganda definitely came after the fact/during. I remember thinking "where the hell did this cult stuff come from suddenly?" It had all been in the news for a year before Reno? and Clinton had those people murdered.

And even if they were cultish, none of the PR justifies the feds actions.

And if you haven't read the Unabombers manifesto... Let's just say it'll expose how much the government lies about this stuff.

[–] meat_popsicle 1 points 6 months ago

And Timothy McVeigh.

[–] mindbleach 3 points 6 months ago

Armed compound of apocalyptic cultists isn't really the same scenario as some guy running websites for video game bootlegs.