I wouldn't put it past them

they are, after all, selling people using rom formats designed by the community after decrying them as criminals for decades

yep

i don't think this would be new low for em

we'll see

I mean technically they still are criminals

the most hilarious bit of history still is ubisoft releasing a no-cd crack as an official fix

I think an absence of a lawsuit we're seeing is probably due to some kind of a deal

If I sell star wars bootleg tapes, even if they're hard to get, it's still not my property to sell, you know?

it's also a victimless crime

I doubt Disney is felling the hit of a lost sale from someone on a brazilian shanty town

The point isn't that the crime causes giant consequences, it's still not legal

neither is using straws in california

It's not like they're gonna take stuff down from the actual sources anyway

also, be aware that 90% of all piracy produces exactly 0 profits, and in most cases actually costs people

shareware is one of the few instances in history that communism actually worked

IMO, people are just complaining that Nintendo is making it inconvenient to steal their games

hmm no, complaining about them being hypocritical on their enforcement

You can get any Rom in ten minutes from a pirate site

wait ... soo you are saying that moding community is communism gone well ?

I said shareware

shareware communisom or something

So is open source software, yes

yeah

damn

but it works becouse it was free from beggining

begining*

plenty of works would have been totally lost to history if not for "pirates"

what is tnt village ? i know just piratebay

I don't exactly remember who, but I remember of a company that bought the rights to a BUTTLOAD of 80s, 70s and 60s cartoons, recorded them on VHS and then trashed the masters because they "won't need them anymore"

there are some gamedev diamonds, which now don't have the owner, and companies are suing one another for intellectual rights. if not for the piracy shit would have been lost

there's a lot of works out there that no one even knows to whom it belongs

and theres no way to buy em, like an auction or smth

I tried to help a publisher track down who could own the rights to this years ago, no one knew anything

i'd buy some shit :]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z22seoMxgpI

if this stuff wasn't preserved by "pirates" it would become lost media

funny enough, paper documents are more safe than digital ones in some sense

"oh but nintendo sells you old games"

Snes had a library of around 1800 games, Nintendo has released like 60

and you need to keep buying them every console because Nintendo hasn't figured out user accounts in 2018