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You don't have to agree with copyright law (and by all means, please try to change it!), but please don't take other people's work and build products out of it without their permission.
Why doesn't Nintendo port old NES/SNES/GameBoy games to smartphones and sell them for $1-$2 each? They're so much more fun than all these compulsive microtransaction games.
Why doesn't Nintendo port old NES/SNES/GameBoy games to smartphones and sell them for $1-$2 each? They're so much more fun than all these compulsive microtransaction games.
Given the list of mirrors, it appears the author knows what they're doing is illegal. You don't have to agree with copyright law (and by all means, please try to change it!), but please don't take other people's work and build products out of it without their permission.
Given the list of mirrors, it appears the author knows what they're doing is illegal. You don't have to agree with copyright law (and by all means, please try to change it!), but please don't take other people's work and build products out of it without their permission.
If I bought the game in 1989 I can still legally play it in digital form, yes? I'm not sure why copyright now means a company can charge me 100 times for the same product in different forms. It didn't used to and I'm not sure how this changed mindset in any way helps creators or society.
No, that's not how copyright works. That's a myth. In some cases you can make a backup of the game if you do it yourself. But you still can't download someone else's copy.
> I'm not sure why copyright now means a company can charge me 100 times for the same product in different forms.
Because copyright means the company that sold you the product retains the right to copy it. That's not a right you bought when you paid for the game.
> It didn't used to and I'm not sure how this changed mindset in any way helps creators or society.
I'm not sure it's been a help either. Someone should change the laws to align them with modern society. But this isn't the way to do it.
You shouldn't have posted this :) EDIT: I remember playing a copycat of konami's contra at childhood, and had wondered what the name of that game was. Now I know the original, thanks!
I would have thought the Nintendo Lawyers would have sent out their Scud Missile on that server within 5 minutes.
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If I bought the game in 1989 I can still legally play it in digital form, yes? I'm not sure why copyright now means a company can charge me 100 times for the same product in different forms. It didn't used to and I'm not sure how this changed mindset in any way helps creators or society.
> If I bought the game in 1989 I can still legally play it in digital form, yes? No, that's not how copyright works. That's a myth. In some cases you can make a backup of the game if you do it yourself. But you still can't download someone else's copy. > I'm not sure why copyright now means a company can charge me 100 times for the same product in different forms. Because copyright means the company that sold you the…
You shouldn't have posted this :) EDIT: I remember playing a copycat of konami's contra at childhood, and had wondered what the name of that game was. Now I know the original, thanks!
.nes-screen {
image-rendering: pixelated; /* webkit */
image-rendering: optimizespeed; /* firefox */
}Lawsuit incoming?