Gary Bowser got released from prison, after 40 months. But he's gonna have to give Nintendo 25~30% of his future paychecks for the rest of his life to try to pay off those $14.5m fines.

Bowser's not a good guy, kind of a huge dick, but this isn't gonna do anything meaningful for Nintendo at all.

Nintendo's a big enough company they can tank that kind of hit anyway, it's more about the punishment for them.

Yeah.

They can clean between their couch cushions and have more than that fall out.

I think it's more about the ransomware + modchips bricking consoles + paid subscription for pirated content combination, yeah.

Yeah, Nintendo's so infamously protective of their properties. This is absolutely about punishment

Because I remember this leaking into the normal news with "oh no! nintendo consoles are being hacked with ransomware!"

is there somewhere I could learn more about this? my googlefu is too weak for a useful search using the names "bowser" and "nintendo"

just search "Gary Bowser Nintendo" and it should come up

Yeah, I got the name wrong in OP. Whoops.

Nintendo hacker forced to pay them for life after be...

This one's a bit sensationalist, but it still covers the details

ohhhhh okay, I was like. here's headlines about a gary, but where's greg

(It also brushes over the exact nature of the crimes)

Yeah, my mistake. Sorry.

nah, I also just failed to put things together

I'm taking a cybersecurity course right now and from what I'm learning, malware/malicious software stuff really gets you hit hard and my suspicion is that the ransomware aspect is really what's getting him here.

Did they hit the dudes who were making those 3DS flash chips that you could put any games you wanted on this hard?