Nintendo clearly believes that a good defense is a vicious offense, and its methods of defending intellectual property lately are certainly offensive.
From getting people fired to tossing them in prison to keeping them chained in debt forever, Nintendo’s sending a clear message – mess with us, and we ruin your life.
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If Commander Sterling has 100 fans, I am one of them.
If Commander Sterling has 10 fans, I am one of them.
If Commander Sterling has 1 fan, I am one of them. Good luck at the brunch!!
Additionally what Nintendo is doing is unconscionable
You know, I’ve tried to be fair about piracy. I’ve made it a point not to pirate any games that are easily available for purchase on services like Steam or GoG, or games that have come out in the last decade. I’ve figured that if a game is older and impossible to get that the company involved doesn’t actually care about my money, and if they make a game I enjoy easy to buy forever then I’ll do it, but it only seemed fair to give them a pretty generous grace period first. Honestly though, I have a pretty decent gaming PC, and I’ve heard good things about Yuzu lately. Maybe it’s time I tried it out.
Steph’s title of “Pangalactic Princesque Of Pandemonium” has always felt a bit odd to me. I completely approve of their desire to use a non-binary noun for their own titles; it’s just that “Princesque” sounds more like an adjective than a noun, at least to my (admittedly American) ears.
Still a much, *MUCH* better way of filling in the blank in the madlib ” Pangalactic _____(non-binary princely title)_____ Of Pandemonium” than any rubbish I could have come up with.
Also fuck Nintendo’s lawyers with a cactus.
Aww man, I havn’t seen cornflake homunculus in ages!
2:48 this is Martin Short’s son i reckon
jim is going to … command and conquer? RED ALERT. ESCAPE TO SPACE.
The unfortunate thing here is: Japan has its own set of IP laws, which the country reformed last decade. These laws actually operate OUTSIDE of the international standard on IP protection.
This makes it super-easy for them to strike down content. In relation, worldwide IP law is super-easy to understand (this is relative, IP law is complex and nuanced, but it follows certain rules… Japanese IP law *does not* follow these rules, it has its own rules).
It’s a difficult one, because I can see where they’re coming from, in relation to how their country’s intellectual property is licensed around the world.
I mean it’s protectionism at the highest level, and how this eventually affects the Japanese culture is one for the future to decide. It didn’t go too well for the worldwide shifts to trade protectionism.
It’s going to lead to much less percolation of Japanese culture around the world, maybe they’ve decided that it’s a calculated risk they’re prepared to take.
Nintendo is paranoid that when I buy their pro controllers, they stop working out of the box so that I cannot even play the game and therefore leak the story.
the only punishment the guy should of got was paying back what he made in sales everything over that is fucking insane
‘kintendo
Nintendo is a mafia that profits by holding theirs fans childhood by the ball sack.
Put Nintendo into The Hague courts, convict them of crimes against humanity, then introduce them (and their Saudi pals) to Agent VX.
Sell a hacking device: Go to prison and pay the corporation until the day you die.
Kill an unarmed civilian: You were standing your ground; they had something in their hand. Bonus Purple Heart awarded if you’re a cop.
Yeah, welcome to the cyberpunk dystopia.
Sadly, it doesnt really matter whether Nintendo is in the wrong or wrong, they have more money and lawyers than any single content creator could ever dream of having so that makes them automatically right in the eyes of the law.
I don’t even pirate and I am genuinely mad about this. This is a Merry Men scenario, why shouldn’t we all commit crimes against Nintendo of Nottingham then, if this much abuse of power is to take place within the law?
The sheer malevolence of corporate lawyers and the greed-fueled cruelty of the (American) injustice system are horrifying.
With that said, I do also have to sigh at the utter stupidity of explicitly selling the Switch modding kit as a piracy tool (and even facilitating access to pirated materials) instead of a way to enable homebrew. As cruel and unjust as the punishment is, that’s the kind of crucial detail that determines if your actions can be successfully defended in court or not.
Subs are going down quick, pretty shocking
…What the? Ok, I dislike piracy, but this punishment is absurd, way to harsh, and does not fit the crime at all.