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Soleron on 02 June 2009
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Lord Flashheart said:
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They or MS was never going to get my money for old games. I didn't know old games would make a comeback like this when I first received them... A few years ago.
Unless they update the games like Bionic Commando I'm not interested.

I'm not going to apologise for having them. I wanted to try Darkman on the nes... It's not on Virtual console so I should go without?
Clearly you don't agree with trade-ins or ebay or having friends lend you their games (MGS on GC at the mo for me) playing the games on a flash website like Kontraband but then you're going to be in the minority here.

Morally, I think it's OK to do it if they're not on VC or any other current platform (though even then you could just get the console + games from eBay etc.). I'm all for consumer rights (like lending, trading in) but seeing as, if the roms didn't exist, you would have bought some of them from VC etc. it does count as lost sales. Not 1:1 (as in, I don';t think they should extract damages equal to all of the games you illegally got) but still some losses. Which would be used to make new and better games everyone else could enjoy.

No, I don't agree with the Flash website thing, even more than roms, because i) What they're doing is EXACTLY like copying discs but, worse, ii) They're making money through advertisements. On illegal content.