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Arcturusisnow posted...

Edit: This is especially true since the government isn't going after the people that bought the modded switches. They so rarely go after the NRA and gun sellers after all with so much murder going on with said guns.

In theory, going after buyers would also make sense, but that tends to be less worthwhile because the damages that can be pinned on any individual pirate pale in comparison to those attributed to their supplier. It's like focusing on drug dealers rather than hunting down individual users (not that the government actually does that, but the War on Drugs is a hideous mess at a fundamental ideological level, so that's another issue).

The gun market, however, does amount to some degree of hypocrisy here. That's less a reflection of what laws are reasonable, though, and more a reflection of the strength of the gun lobby and its propaganda. Holding gun manufacturers, distributors, and legitimate owners responsible for ensuring guns don't end up in the hands of somebody that will use them for ill (background checks that include mental health evaluations, strict security requirements at every level of the chain of custody, a comprehensive system for registering guns and their owners, mandatory waiting periods...) would indeed go a long way toward solving the problem of gun violence, but arms manufacturers like how profitable unrestricted sales are, so the NRA lobbies against it under the pretense of "freedom."

Revelation34 posted...

Nothing wrong with my post. They severely inflate lost sales from piracy.

They do, but "$1000" is 100% a number you just made up because you liked the sound of it and felt it helped make your point, not one that has any basis in real data. They absolutely do exaggerate lost revenue, but you understated it, which is no better.

SeahorseCpt89 posted...

I consider this guy less horrible than any scalper selling PS5s for thousands of dollars. At least this guy added stuff to his Switches to make the extra cost worth it. 5 years is way too much.

And again, if he gets 5 years for this, PS5 scalpers should get more.

Scalpers are assholes and do indeed generally do more to harm the rest of us than any pirate does, but they aren't doing anything illegal. Piracy, however, is illegal, especially making an enterprise out of facilitating it.

Like many in this topic, you seem to be under the impression that he's been charged simply for modding the consoles. That's not the case. He's been charged specifically for modding the consoles to be able to play pirated games. Modding in general is perfectly fine. It's the piracy that's the issue.