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Switch pirate dodges Nintendo's multimillion-dollar lawsuit (overkill.wtf)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Keighin has confirmed publicly that he is aware of this lawsuit, even going so far as talking with a local news reporter from 9NEWS in his hometown. Following the subsequent publication of this 9NEWS report, it's noted that Keighin did then start to delete "a substantial amount of his online posts relevant to this suit".

Wow, the dude's speedrunning an obstruction charge. I'm pretty sure destruction of evidence is a crime even for civil suits.

Screw this guy, and screw Nintendo's lawyers as well.

[–] [email protected] 212 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Headline makes it sound like he's managed to get out of it somehow, but in fact he's just literally been dodging being served; he's still pretty fucked.

[–] [email protected] 145 points 1 week ago (4 children)

In fact, dodging while publicly saying that he knows he's being sued is likely to actually fuck him harder once he is in court. And publicly saying that he'll just go bankrupt and avoid paying them anything will also probably fuck him harder. He needs to get a lawyer and just shut the fuck up.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Wait,why is that? Getting sued for millions dollars? OK, yes,take all my money, here is 5 dollars. That's all I have under my name.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A situation could easily happen where they're forced to pay a percentage of whatever they earn until it's all paid off (which will be never).

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Ah slavery okay a perfectly fine punishment in todays world

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That's a shitty thing. Violence and rape is ok If you can't pay? Debt makes sense - you pay damages as you get money.

Now why the fuck is Nintendo available to get a cent from him is pure capitalism at it's finest. Fuck that.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

It is according to the US constitution

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

It wouldn't be the first time Nintendo has had this

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Ever Heard of the bowser guy?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Yeah, avoiding being served is something no court is particularly keen on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

right? The court can decide a punishment can persist through bankruptcy, so him stating that's his intention likely will promise that they have that exception added in the penalty phase.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

"no your honor. That was not my account, it was an internet troll account."

  • guy who gets away with avoiding being served

this is why it's imperative for servers to confirm identity and serve.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

We are so lucky Nintendo sells shitty video games instead of health insurance. It could always be worse, folks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But Sony does!

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago

If you know they’re on your ass delete all online presence, it’s not that hard. Taunting the courts and/or Nintendo about this will just make you more miserable because eventually the court will grant the exception to serve your family members instead.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why do people keep mucking with Nintendo when they know what Nintendo are like. Just ignore them and their games.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fond memories of favorite childhood game franchises.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

They've all been on piratebay for over ten damn years already.

SNES NES Gameboy Gameboy color GBA N64

There they are. Seeders, a'plenty.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I get that. Warez aren’t for everyone. Dealing with cracks, possible malware, or a program that might phone home when you don’t want it to. Some might be willing to take the risk, others just want legit copies they can play when they want. The fucked up thing is that we shouldn’t need warez for abandonware.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The world doesn't run on shouldn't. It's why lockpicks exist, and genocide.

Nintendo is never going to budge, and the only thing keeping Sony and Sega from doing it is no shareholder is twisting their arms yet, but the timeline will eventually find the wrong dude in the right place.

Better isn't something things tend to get unless we do it for ourselves, and with the way the world is getting?

I stocked up a 16TB hard drive with every rom and iso I could ever feasably imagine myself ever needing to download, and I seed every possible torrent that the community pays attention to.

Too much? Overkill? There's no such thing.

If we don't preserve gaming, it won't happen because no one else is going to do it. All of us, we are "those guys". We are the line of defense, here. We have to be the ones to do it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

We’re on the same page, dude.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean sure but these adults presumably read the news and saw what happened to the last 36 people that irritated Nintendo and then they go, oh it would be a gosh darn swell idea if I were to do the same thing as them.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

This dude is literally from my town. What a king

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Clickbait trash. He's been avoiding getting served for a few weeks, and soon the court will allow to serve his mom instead, and nothing has been achieved. Hooray.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Eh, him going on the news talking about it will likely stand as evidence that he knows he's being summoned.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I thought you have to be able to read the full summons to be legally considered as received. Not too familiar with US law though.

Where I'm from there's a way of a public delivery if someone absconded, by posting it on the black board of the local city hall of someone's current registered address for 4 weeks or something.

If they failed to change the registered address they'd also be committing a federal crime, so if they were to contest the lawful delivery, they'd admit another offense, landing them in jail where they could then be successfully served. So that would at best reset the timer at the expense of a felony.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I'm no expert on the process, but I'm pretty sure as long as the process server can attest that the papers were produced to the person being summoned. You don't have to read it at all... The process server can just drop them in front of you and say "You've been served".

I know that if you can't be found alternate mechanisms exists, but usually requires attempting to exhaust all other avenues.

But the dude literally outright told the news he knows about it. I'm pretty sure that would be more than sufficient for the court to state that whatever mechanism they used to serve him was sufficient since he knew about it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

This is not a “win”