Message from @tombmonkey
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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 :]
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
"We need to promote culture in the 3rd world"
-sells them shit for half their income
Yeah, don't like that Copyright Naziism from Nintendo either...
plus we are on a youtuber's discord, where people often get shafted by fake dmcas
Yeah, especially if it is some shit someone (like MundaneM.) doesn't like.
Here's the thing, Nintendo isn't going after the sources. They're only going after the distributors
I have the entire library of the SNES in my computer. You can get any game for any system from a torrent site
People are complaining because it's not as convenient