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Illusion on 21 April 2022
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psychicscubadiver said:
Illusion said:

Please read my post.  I didn't say anywhere that I am "cool with theft."  All I am doing is holding Nintendo to the same extremely high standard that they expect all gamers to abide by.

Seems legit. After all, everybody I know who emulates Ninty games got mutli-million dollar lawsuits. It definitely isn't just the people deliberately cashing in on Nintendo's IP by selling ROMs or hacking gear.

C'mon, chief. As a man who *allegedly* pirates anime and manga by the boatload, I'm willing to admit that theft is theft. It's easy to rationalize when you financially support the people who you feel deserve your money after the fact, but I've never lied to myself about what I'm doing. 

Where did I say anywhere that I support the illegal downloading/sharing/etc of ROMs?  I think that Nintendo is far to anal about it, but I agree that we should support and legitimately purchase content whenever possible.  For example, I play tons of retro games but every game I play I own a legitimately purchased copy of it.  The problem is that many of my games are from the 90's and the carts/discs are now too expensive to replace.  There is also the issue that even normal usage of these extremely old games is destructive and I have dead Shadows of the Empire and Dragon Warrior carts from the past year to prove this.  Am I criminal for wanting to back up my games from the 90's to be able to safely access the content?  This is what Nintendo has to say about it:

https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/55888/~/intellectual-property-%26-piracy-faq#s2q7

Frankly, the double standard is sickening.  Nintendo is taking a legal grey area and asserting that it is illegal for people to want to preserve and access their own legitimately purchased content in the privacy of their own home but then it is totally OK I assume to illegally surveil employees and union bust.

Also, you are fooling yourself if you think that Nintendo is only going after people making boatloads of cash off of their IP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIC21WNOWl0

Frankly, Nintendo's own words reveal that if they had the means they would like to prosecute most of the people on this board for their past actions downloading ROMs or modding like the RIAA did for music downloading in the 2000's, it's just that they only have the resources to sue so many people.  I guess that I am just the only person here who feels repulsed by it.

Now, I am hearing that Nintendo may be violating worker rights, it just adds icing on the cake for me.

And just to repeat myself in case I get accused of it again: no I do not support nor am I advocating the illegal downloading of ROMs.  Just because I think the penalty Nintendo is administering is unjust in most cases does not mean that I think that the acts are A-OK or that I condone it.

Last edited by Illusion - on 21 April 2022