I read all of these comments and was feeling absolutely outraged. The more I read about the actual case, the less I felt that way. He wasn't just some random guy screwed for handling a landing page and customer support, he did that and:

- Operated rom-bank.com, which provided downloadable libraries of >10k ROMs for the users

- Handled additional product marketing sites, distributor reviews, and advertising.

- Received ~$320,000 in direct payments and website ad revenue, which he fully knew came from this company selling pirating hardware/software as he operated the above to enable them to do so

- Probably more, I lost interest in trying to find actual details over repetition of minor pieces of it

This operation made 10s of millions, he made hundreds of thousands and clearly knew what was going on for many years. I'm not saying I'm happy with the punishments handed to him, but I also don't buy the claims he was just some dude that got fucked out of left field because Nintendo was pure evil (emphasis on the pure). I still feel like they could throw the dude a bone at this point though, but maybe the popular 5 minute take is already so set in people's minds that Nintendo just sees bringing the topic up in people's minds again as a massive liability for backlash. Or maybe they just don't care and wanted more. Either way, he's no martyr for those who just want fair use of what they buy and it doesn't make me hate Nintendo.