{"id":43322,"date":"2022-06-09T12:36:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T12:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nintendo-used-the-tx-court-case-to-send-a-message-gary-bowsers-health-potentially-at-risk-in-prison-gbatemp-net\/"},"modified":"2022-06-09T12:36:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T12:36:37","slug":"nintendo-used-the-tx-court-case-to-send-a-message-gary-bowsers-health-potentially-at-risk-in-prison-gbatemp-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nintendo-used-the-tx-court-case-to-send-a-message-gary-bowsers-health-potentially-at-risk-in-prison-gbatemp-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo used the TX court case to “send a message”, Gary Bowser’s health potentially at risk in prison | GBAtemp.net"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Gary Bowser, of Team Xecuter infamy, is still serving his three-year prison sentence. The storied court battle may be over, but a new court transcript was released, and uploaded online, courtesy of Axios. In it, is further official comments from Nintendo’s lawyers. According to the document, Nintendo’s legal team wanted to use the TX case to send a message to other would-be hackers or those in the piracy business. During the proceedings, US district judge Robert Lasnik asked Nintendo’s lawyers, “What do you think? What else can we do to convince people that there’s no glory in this hacking \/ piracy?”, With Nintendo’s side responding, “There would be a large benefit to further education of the public. “<\/p>\n
Lasnik agreed with the sentiment, though he did not sentence Bowser to the full 5 years that Nintendo was seeking. “I always tell the jurors, ‘Your role is not to send a message. Your role is to decide guilt or innocence on the facts’. But my role sometimes does entail sending a message.” In response, Bowser said that giving him a longer sentence wouldn’t be a deterrent to hackers, stating, “There’s so much money to be made from piracy that it’s insignificant.”<\/p>\n
Additionally, the legal documents also reveal that Nintendo blamed hackers for the release of the new Nintendo Switch model, saying they had to design new hardware to circumvent the losses caused by TX. Nintendo’s legal team also claimed that those using hacked systems could cheat, thus scaring off children who would lose to the cheaters and feel upset. “Parents should not be forced to explain to their children why people cheat and why sometimes games are not fair, just because one person wants an unfair advantage.”<\/p>\n
\n2) According to the hacker Gary Bowser’s lawyer, much of the time Bowser already served while awaiting sentencing was spent in de facto solitary confinement due to Covid and other health issues pic.twitter.com\/BezqOq2oeZ<\/a><\/p>\n