"Former Pokémon lawyer explains how he tracked down a young leaker by calling his mom"

[kane_magus]

Full headline: "Former Pokémon lawyer explains how he tracked down a young leaker by calling his mom: 'Absolutely baked my legend in at Pokémon for like 5 years'"

Why the fuck is this story being framed as some kind of folksy, feel-good story about a "good guy" who turned a "child hacker" away from a life of crime and onto the straight and narrow, when what really happened here was that a scumbag lawyer harassed a mother and her child, lied to the mother, and probably scared the kid shitless, and for absolutely no valid reason? The kid was essentially data mining, which is neither illegal nor even "hAcKiNg," especially not in this case. What a load of horseshit. This may have "baked" this douchenozzle's "legend" with like-minded scuzzbucket Nintendo/Pokemon lawyers, but it makes him look like a colossal asshole to everyone else.

Comments

[goldpseudo]

This is why you need to pay attention to Terms of Service before signing up for stuff, especially when it asks for your personal contact information. I can all but guarantee you that there was some legal chicanery in there that made it perfectly acceptable for a lawyer to call a kid's mom and scare them with half-baked accusations of wrongdoing for playing the game wrong.

[kane_magus]

This is why "Terms of Service" (or "EULA"s or whatever else one wants to call them) for fucking video games need to go to hell entirely. And yeah, people need to be more careful of shit like this before just blithely giving large, soulless companies their email or phone number or whatever.