Judge rules Nintendo! ILLEGALLY protects systems', should be like WINDOWS!!

[Onyxmeth]

Euphoria14 said:

Onyxmeth said:

Your opinion is tainted since we all know you pirate games regularly. It's hard to trust the stance you'd take when we know you're really trying to defend the continuation of the piracy behind the three platforms anyways.

Yeah? What makes you so sure that I do this regularly? A hunch? Quite a bold claim you've made.

 

Have I pirated before? Yes I have.

Have I purchased games I have pirated? Yes I have.

 

Nowadays I no longer download any games because I have a 2 out at a time Gamefly account which gives access to DS, PSP, 360, PS3, Wii, PS2 games.

Whatever. Drop the "regularly" from my sentence. It doesn't change the point I was making.

What you don't seem to understand is the negative implications this could have. Nintendo fought hard back in the 1980's to get consoles closed in the first place. Back on the Atari, anyone could make a cartridged game and sell it. Nowadays, that would be like having no piracy protection on a platform at all. This is where court decisions like this lead us back to. Today we're protecting homebrew makers by allowing flashcarts. Tomorrow we're protecting homebrew makers by allowing unprotected DVDs and BluRays to access our consoles. It's the exact same thing. The flashcarts are carts produced outside of Nintendo's control that screw with the piracy protection they have set up. We allow this to pass, and next we witness a bunch of consoles with as much piracy protection as the Dreamcast.