• otp@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    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.

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      2 days ago

      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.

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        1 day ago

        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.

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              1 day ago

              What did they pirate specifically and why nobody is suing them for it? Please go ahead.

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                1 day ago

                What I said in my last comment was

                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.

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                    23 hours ago

                    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.