Super Mario Pirate Appears on AU News Show

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twesterm said:

Seece said:

twesterm said:

Seece said:
Shouldn't have been fined that much. I don't agree with pirating, but fining that much is just a disgrace, hopefully he appeals and wins.

I hope he loses.  He did the crime and he got caught.  Why should he get out of it?

Because the punishment would hurt him?

Boohoo?

Because the punishment doesn't fit the crime?

How would you say that?  Nintendo can flat out prove it was him that uploaded it and it was downloaded at least 50,000 times.  We can go on and on all day how those could have been sales or not, but in the end, we still know 50,000 people got to enjoy the game for free so that's a lot of money Nintendo missed out on.

There's really no justification at all for what he did and he deserves every bit of his punishment.  As I said elsewhere, I hope Nintendo makes a habit of this and other publishers start doing the same thing.

It won't stop piracy by any means, but it sure will make people think twice before they upload something to any public file sharing site.

 

I believe the punishment fit the crime. First of all, 50000 people downloaded the game illegally due to this man's crime. If say, we price each game as 50 U.S. dollars, that is $2.5 million dollars that Nintendo lost. It did not matter if most of the people who downloaded the game illegally would most likely not have bought the game in the first place, but the mere possibility of losing those purchasers for good with that one product is damaging.

 

Is this punishment going to ruin this man forever? Most likely. But this is what happens when you don't think before committing a crime.