Hacker has to pay Nintendo 25-30% of his salary for the rest of his life

&gt;The 53-year-old Canadian was sentenced to 40 months in prison in the US and instructed to cough up $14.5 million for his involvement in the group.<p>Bankruptcy worked for the Sackler Family, and they where involved with many deaths due to overdoses. But break DRM, you are in the hole for the rest of your life and you get Jail time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;05&#x2F;30&#x2F;business&#x2F;sackler-purdue-opioid-liability&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;05&#x2F;30&#x2F;business&#x2F;sackler-purdue-opioi...</a>

This is some dystopian cyberpunk shit people a few decades ago would read in a fiction and think &quot;scary but would not happen for real&quot;...<p>And the fact is, we all know what this means, what would likely to happen next, and that we are all powerless to stop it. No wonder the younger generations are severely depressed.

How does this work? Is there no interest over this 14m us dollars?. That alone would be 500.000 per year. Can you not file for a personal bankruptcy? I find this life long sentence of paying an impossible amount way too harsch. He would better flee to Russia or something and try to rebuild something. His life is in chains now.

Yes because poor Nintendo doesn&#x27;t have enough money, they need a perpetual debt slave as well.

N is usually very harsh with hackers. I wonder when that will blow back.

Boycott Nintendo. Make them lose more money from this decision than they could ever hope to gain.

Lots of discussion here 3 months ago:<p><i>Gary Bowser and gaming&#x27;s most infamous piracy case</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39214818">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39214818</a>

It isn&#x27;t clear to me whether this is Nintendo&#x27;s or Nintendo of America&#x27;s doing.