Fuck Nintendo. Come on, someone grab* this pro bono… There has to be some bored, rich af partner out there who wants to tilt at windmills.
Client is too crazy, and it’s Nintendo. Lawyers won’t touch this.
Yeah this doesn’t exactly sound like a Mr. Smith goes to Washington type…
Nah this isn’t usual Nintendo bullshit, this guy was installing pirated games as part of his mods - he’s brought this on himself.
Nobody’s going to go against Nintendo pro-bono lol
At best you may be able to find a lawyer that’ll work on a contingency basis, but they tend to only take cases that they’re fairly confident they’ll win (since they don’t make any money if they lose)
Nah man, as much as I might dislike Nintendos business practices, this dude in particular only has himself to blame. Dude literally sold pirated games, signed an agreement with Nintendo to stop, then didn’t. Not surprised no one would want that case.
Unfortunately the number of people who need a lawyer’s help is far greater than the number of helpful lawyers.
I really think The Simpsons missed the mark with their “8 lawyers per person” joke.
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Also his last move
His last will be garnished wages from his mcjob
He will literally die
Fly you fool
You either die a hero, or you live long enough to become Nintendo.
This isn’t a smart play, but it forced Nintendo to spend more of their legal team’s time on him, rather than the emulation community, so I support his suicide mission.
It is likely that he is going to get shit canned, but, I hope he purchases a bulldozer and modifies it during all legal proceedings.
controlled by a modded switch
Er, wait is that a killdozer reference?
I like to think of it as a modification of a killdozer reference.
the reference is definitely crushing it
Hope he has a spot in the wilderness to hide out.
Maybe he has something up his sleeve we don’t know about
Like maybe he’s going to prove that Nintendo was emulating his work all along? (/s)
Maybe he doesn’t want to spend 50k for a case he’s losing anyway.
Not legal advice, but I believe denying all facts even the ones that are obviously true is setting himself up to pay costs for proving those facts, even if he was to win overall.
Nintendo are over litigious and have a reputation for weaponising copyright laws to shut down legitimate competition - but I suspect this might not be a good test case for challenging this.
Let the man cook!
The fate of us all \ lies deep in the dark \ when time stands still at the Iron Hill
Dude is fucked, but I’m rooting for him all the same.
His balls are Jupiter and Neptune
His brain is a lepton.
Many such lawsuits have ended in settlements outside of courts, so I’m guessing many legal claims have not been validated or invalidated in court yet. This can be good or bad of course. But now, if this guy goes to court, I’m actually concerned because it may give an unchallenged path to Nintendo’s legal arguments and assuming the court decides he’s guilty, there will be precedent of these legal claims having been vetted in court. Would that not be worse for anyone in the future who would want to challenge Nintendo’s legal claims?
That would be a nice legal loophole for a corporation. Bribe someone to lose a court case without council, and then use that case as legal precedent for future cases.
indeed! so there must be more to this. So how does it actually work?
A judge can choose to ignore precedent.
Not arbitrarily though. If they are going to choose to ignore precedent then they have to provide a reasonable justification. E.g. the legal precedent is very old and is not fit for purpose in the modern era, or, the specifics of the case are different enough from the specifics of the precedent that It is possible to argue that it does not apply.
Yeah, is that how they overturned roe v wade?
It also helped the US supreme court basically doesn’t do its job anymore. Had the justice system worked as intended it would have been quite difficult to justify overturning it. It’s not like anything new had happened or any new evidence had come to light.
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Rest in piece you brave soul.
