Current Events > Nintendo files multimillion-dollar lawsuit against ROM website

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LordFarquad1312 posted...

Darmik posted...

RomUniverse reportedly offers memberships to its site, priced at $30 per year.

Fair, next.

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Darmik posted...

darkstar4221 posted...

This is why the copyright duration should be at most 6 years, not a lifetime + 75 years. All copyright does is give corporate power to companies like Nintendo/Apple/Sony/Microsoft etc to inflate the cost of their video games, to sell services that rip you off, or to rehash old "classics" and sell those classic video games at inflated prices.

NES, SNES, PSX, Sega Saturn etc all those games be in the public domain by now.

6 years is nothing. That would mean by the end of this year PS4 and Xbox One launch games would start being free.

If a game is 6 years old, it's already old. I believe there should be some copyright protection but not a lifetime + 75 years, not even 10 years. Copyright has done enough damage to the gaming industry, usually by video game companies imploding from their own greed, and companies like Sony, Intel, and Nintendo always push for more copy protection technologies.

Phew! Almost had a heart attack there. Thank goodness it wasn't one of my sources. But as what others already mentioned, putting current gen materials is like painting a giant target on your back.

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Nintendo's making them cheeks
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darkstar4221 posted...

Darmik posted...

darkstar4221 posted...

This is why the copyright duration should be at most 6 years, not a lifetime + 75 years. All copyright does is give corporate power to companies like Nintendo/Apple/Sony/Microsoft etc to inflate the cost of their video games, to sell services that rip you off, or to rehash old "classics" and sell those classic video games at inflated prices.

NES, SNES, PSX, Sega Saturn etc all those games be in the public domain by now.

6 years is nothing. That would mean by the end of this year PS4 and Xbox One launch games would start being free.

If a game is 6 years old, it's already old. I believe there should be some copyright protection but not a lifetime + 75 years, not even 10 years. Copyright has done enough damage to the gaming industry, usually by video game companies imploding from their own greed, and companies like Sony, Intel, and Nintendo always push for more copy protection technologies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_protection

With the ease of being able to hack systems and download games of course they'll escalate copy protection technologies. That's common sense.

Accessing modern games has never really been easier thanks to digital distribution.
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Darmik posted...

darkstar4221 posted...

Darmik posted...

darkstar4221 posted...

This is why the copyright duration should be at most 6 years, not a lifetime + 75 years. All copyright does is give corporate power to companies like Nintendo/Apple/Sony/Microsoft etc to inflate the cost of their video games, to sell services that rip you off, or to rehash old "classics" and sell those classic video games at inflated prices.

NES, SNES, PSX, Sega Saturn etc all those games be in the public domain by now.

6 years is nothing. That would mean by the end of this year PS4 and Xbox One launch games would start being free.

If a game is 6 years old, it's already old. I believe there should be some copyright protection but not a lifetime + 75 years, not even 10 years. Copyright has done enough damage to the gaming industry, usually by video game companies imploding from their own greed, and companies like Sony, Intel, and Nintendo always push for more copy protection technologies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_protection

With the ease of being able to hack systems and download games of course they'll escalate copy protection technologies. That's common sense.

Accessing modern games has never really been easier thanks to digital distribution.

Copy protection technologies is not pushed by the free market. It's technology backed up by copyright laws. And some of these technologies has nothing to do with piracy.

This was evident during the 7th gen era of consoles (PS3/360/Wii). You bought a brand new HD LCD television and it cannot even properly display any resolution that was below high def such as your PS1/PS2/SNES console.

You had to keep your old big bulky CRT television just to play your old video games. Or gaming companies favorite way of rehashing their old classics by selling classic systems, or only being to able to play old games through their virtual console.

What I always find weird about the anti-ROM people, is they act like old games you can't but new copies of anymore also somehow mean lost revenue for the copyright holders (not creators, copyright holders =/= actual production staff), when if anything it would be lost revenue for 3rd party game resellers. Like at some point you would think the ridiculousness of their "lost sales" position would start becoming apparent.

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a_riot04 posted...

Phew! Almost had a heart attack there. Thank goodness it wasn't one of my sources. But as what others already mentioned, putting current gen materials is like painting a giant target on your back.

I went and checked and none of the big homebrew stuff like gbatemp and certain subreddits (including pirate ones) are reporting on it while loveroms and emuparadise had several big threads. Didn't seem to be too significant (although it did have the newest switch releases). The membership thing probably meant people didn't care too much for it.
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Darmik posted...

darkstar4221 posted...

This is why the copyright duration should be at most 6 years, not a lifetime + 75 years. All copyright does is give corporate power to companies like Nintendo/Apple/Sony/Microsoft etc to inflate the cost of their video games, to sell services that rip you off, or to rehash old "classics" and sell those classic video games at inflated prices.

NES, SNES, PSX, Sega Saturn etc all those games be in the public domain by now.

6 years is nothing. That would mean by the end of this year PS4 and Xbox One launch games would start being free.

Agreed it should be 15 or 20 years.
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