The problem that I have is that Nintendo is a company that condemns people who do things like make personal backups of their 20-30 yr old cartridges that are practically irreplaceable on the used market and are rapidly failing due to age and uses the law as their justification for this position. They are a major outlier in the gaming industry in terms of aggressively enforcing their legal rights to the point where, in my opinion, it is a major overreach. Almost monthly, I hear or watch stories about how a Nintendo civil suit destroyed the life of some average person (usually a fan) that was sharing ROMs, which is admittedly illegal, while I frankly almost never hear similar stories coming from Microsoft, Sony or Sega.
Nintendo demanding that we as gamers abide by the finer points of incredibly complex Copyright Law and accuse anybody who doesn't as being pirates, criminals, etc makes me want to hold the company to a much higher standard than anybody else in the industry. As a result, when I hear stories like this I get doubly (no triply) angry at Nintendo. It also upsets me quite a bit to see how many gamers are making excuses for this company and minimizing a fundamental human right such as the right to form a union. I don't know if Nintendo is guilty of wrongdoing here but if they are, I hope that they are penalized to the maximum extent of the law the same way that they have happily laid multi-million dollar civil penalties on young gamers in their parents basements that have screwed up a shared a ROM online.
