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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by BoorishBears on Monday June 07, 2021 @11:50PM (#27430473)
A guy making 30k a year got a reduced judgement of 2 million dollars against him for distributing copies of Nintendo Switch games on the basis that each download was a lost sale.

Only issue? The Nintendo Switch can't play copies of a game unless you painstakingly modify it.

So every person who visited his site had already decided not to purchase games and exploited gaps in Nintendo's DRM on their personal devices, yet our justice saw fit to permanently ruin him with the incredibly nonsensical argument Nintendo presented.

Our justice system is broken in more ways than are apparent.

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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by JAlexoid on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @12:33AM (#27430663)
That's copyright. Claiming 100k in damages from copyright infringement is not hard under US law.

If there was trade secret - then there's no minimum, it's all however much a lawyer can convince the judge that the company is loosing.

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