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>‘Hacking software, that’s a federal crime, but I don’t want that to be the conversation. Why don’t we make it a conversation about the good and bad things he can do with a computer?’

What a complete piece of shit. Threatening a child and his parent because the child dumped some memory and found some file. He also knows that there is exactly zero chance for any legal actions towards that kid (and of course it is not his decision in any case), nevertheless he, the super helpful lawyer, gets to make threats however he wants.

Genuinely disgusting. How do these people live with themselves? "Honey, today I made a kid afraid he was going to jail, because he copied some file of something we sold to him, how was your day?".

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I thank god I never became a lawyer. They are $300+/hr thugs for hire whose only mission is to bully you into complete submission until you pay to make them go away.

> $300+/hr thugs for hire whose only mission is to bully you into complete submission until you pay to make them go away.

Sounds like a great success that many would kill for.

/Sarcasm, but still. Meh.

Worst thing is that to fight a lawyer you need another lawyer, so if taken as a category they never lose.

In my experience they cost a lot more than $300 an hour.

My lawyer for a minor traffic accident in juvenile traffic court was $300/hr in a low CoL market, 22 years ago....

Unfortunately there is no lawful way to penalize someone for being an absolute piece of shit, since being a piece of shit is totally legal. Shame doesn’t work: people don’t even feel or respond to shame anymore. You can’t punch them, even if they deserve it. So lawyers like this just live their shitty lives, threatening children and sleeping soundly at night on mattresses stuffed with $100 bills.

This guy’s actions are 100% in line with Nintendo’s policies. They actively hate their fans. There is a legal way to punish Nintendo: Stop giving them money, and make sure everyone knows that the reason why is that you don’t do business with bullies.

Boycotts almost never work. Yet, somehow we keep reaching for that ineffective tool whenever the discussion of corporate bad behavior comes up. Vote With Your Wallet sounds nice, but just doesn't actually work in reality.

Bud Light and the generally chilling effect on corporate "progressive messaging" (or however someone would choose to phrase it) their boycott has had would like a word with you.

Boycotts work quite well, but you have to have a sufficient base of customers to participate — and it helps to avoid spurring counter-boycotts: Chick-Fil-A's business increased after some chose to boycott them. It also helps when the company's product is commodity swill that's easy enough to rotate out (Bud Light) vs. a generally positive customer experience (CFA).

Threatening people to make them behave a certain way is actually illegal, even if that threat is legal action. Especially if you are trying to stop someone from doing something well within their rights, knowingly abusing your privileged access to the law as a lawyer.

> Threatening people to make them behave a certain way is actually illegal, even if that threat is legal action

No, its generally not. Every legal demand letter is a threat of legal action intended to produce a desired behavioral outcome in the target. Needless to say, issuing a demand letter is not generally itself illegal.

> Especially if you are trying to stop someone from doing something well within their rights

Threats of either actions which are themselves illegal (prohibited violence) or threats with illegal purposes (suppression of protected rights) are often illegal,but that's a lot narrower than “Threatening people to make them behave a certain way is actually illegal”.

Your comment is framed as a disagreement but is actually just an elaboration. Granted, I should have said "can be illegal" instead of "is illegal" to make it narrower. The main point I was trying to make is that abuses of the legal system to coerce behavior are not allowed.

I think he would fit right in at Riot Games next.

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