Nintendo couldn’t pirate their own stuff because they own it. They downloaded ROMs because they can’t be arsed to dump them themselves, similar to 99% of population. Kind of hypocritical with all the DRM related laws that they support but at least they recognise they’re unenforceable.
Ok, then Nintendo benefitted financially from piracy and made no efforts to hide the fact that they obtained games through the exact same methods that pirates use.
Nintendo benefitted financially from piracy and made no efforts to hide the fact that they obtained games through the exact same methods that pirates use.
I’m not sure why this didn’t satisfy your pedantry before, but maybe you didn’t read it when you replied to it last time.
I was saying that they benefitted from other people pirating their games.
You thought I meant that they benefitted from pirating their own games.
I can see how what I wrote could be interpreted that way. But no, I meant that they benefitted from their games having been pirated in the past by pirates.
It’s probably almost nearly 100% of emulator users who pirate games.
Even Nintendo pirated their own games before releasing them on the Wii’s Virtual Console.
Nintendo couldn’t pirate their own stuff because they own it. They downloaded ROMs because they can’t be arsed to dump them themselves, similar to 99% of population. Kind of hypocritical with all the DRM related laws that they support but at least they recognise they’re unenforceable.
Ok, then Nintendo benefitted financially from piracy and made no efforts to hide the fact that they obtained games through the exact same methods that pirates use.
Piracy of what?
Booty and gold, of course
What did they pirate specifically and why nobody is suing them for it? Please go ahead.
What I said in my last comment was
I’m not sure why this didn’t satisfy your pedantry before, but maybe you didn’t read it when you replied to it last time.
Law is a pedantic thing.
Ok, I see now.
I was saying that they benefitted from other people pirating their games.
You thought I meant that they benefitted from pirating their own games.
I can see how what I wrote could be interpreted that way. But no, I meant that they benefitted from their games having been pirated in the past by pirates.