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Information wants to be free and
corporations aren't people
You're on a forum entirely built around notions like the right to repair and the open-source ethos and you're somehow surprised that a significant portion of the people here are radical information activists and anarchists who grew up looking up to people like Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
Not to say that the work that Wack0 did was as important as Wikileaks, it wasn't, but why on earth would you feel bad for Nintendo?
Collectively they have more money than you will ever have in your entire lifetime, and this kind of corporate Stockholm syndrome where we develop love and sympathy to those who hold our devices hostage is absurd
They trade in planned obsolescence which is terrible for the environment, and anybody leaking blueprints that could be used to keep these devices operational, proprietary replacement parts reproduced, and their operating system preserved in its entirety so they aren't filling as many landfills in the future, in my view is a net good for the world
After years and years of watching Nintendo (or somebody posing as Nintendo that they refuse to disavow looking at you "Jason Allen") shut down countless fan projects with hundreds of thousands of hours of work spent on them I don't think it's surprising some of the people here find it cathartic for them to be humbled
I think people who think like you and people who think like me view reality through very different lenses, despite our shared interests, I don't think something is wrong just because it's illegal and I don't think something is theft if you're copying instead of removing, no matter how "confidential" some corporate suit says their information is
And that's okay, you're entitled to your opinion no matter how vehemently I disagree, we don't all have to see eye to eye
