I see these people all the time on CL. Offering to hack Wii/Wii-U/Firesticks primarily.
If you actually read the article, you he advertised his modding as a way to get free games, but sold hacked NES Classics with 800+ games on it, and preloaded consoles he hacked with games. This was far more than simple console modding.
That's probably why they went after him, ROM distribution is involved and having concrete proof that someone is doing that is practically a free win.
mistake #1 advertising it on craigslist, i mean i would of kept it on the DL and just went by word of mouth to people that would fit the area of buy tons of games on the cheap. Advertising this like that just opens yourself to a lot of people who don't really agree with it and gets you caught pretty quickly.
For once it isn't Florida Man
A couple months ago when I was looking for a 3DS, I constantly found these "services". It's amazing how people that know how to do this (not that it's hard) don't realize it's pretty illegal to sell services like this.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/132660/d7695aae-277f-401f-b6ac-1b8bc5cef775/hackz2.PNG
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/132660/0c2b06dd-6ff3-4624-a5fc-77267cf0a243/hackz.PNG
It really shows you the difference between the coasts. On one side we have meth fueled insanity, on the other it's people committing white collar crimes out of the trunks of their cars and stopping interstate traffic to do donuts
What a fucking moron.
The real crime is charging sixty dollars for installing homebrew on the 3DS, that's a ridiculously easy procedure. The definition of scamming suckers.
Yep. I don't feel sorry for him. He's a greedy piece of shit who got what he deserved.
Agree with the posts above. Absolutely ridiculous that he's trying to charge THAT much for what he's doing.
At this point the games are the equivalent of abandonware and the people wanting to play the older games rarely would've bought them for the price Nintendo offers.
He would put switch games on the consoles he was hacking, and NES games that are available on the Virtual Console are by no means abandonware
For the newer games I can totally understand Nintendo cracking down on.
Older games, I see completely justifiable on downloading and playing without buying as the company had already made 99% of the money it's going to make. And especially with a company as shitty as Nintendo, they don't deserve that last 1% for the older games.
Sure, if you are modding and pirating for your own use or maybe your friends family its fine.
But this guy charged people a lot of money for these things. Maybe Nintendo, as shit as you may think it is, is doing the right thing here.
The second one seems okay to me, I don' t see any advertising for pirated content.
just go to any convention these days and you'll find some shady looking group advertising these hacked consoles with over 1000(!) games in an NES enclosure with Nintendo on it. They don't even hide it
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