Preservation is noble. Most pirates aren’t doing preservation. You know it, I know it, everyone in this thread knows it. They have a hard drive full of stuff they want to play/watch for free. That’s a far cry from following 3-2-1 protocol, let alone real archive standards. Hence “which they are not doing.”
Edit: it bears mentioning that I actually don’t begrudge people who pirate necessarily. I just don’t like it when they hide behind real reasons when they aren’t actually doing it for those reasons. It cheapens the endeavor and they’re just straight up lying. If you’re downloading stuff because you want to play for free - which can be because of a lack of access (financial or otherwise) or a myriad of other reasons (perhaps it’s a milestone work but you don’t want to support a piece of shit dev) - then just be honest. But the simple fact is we all know most people pirate because it’s easy and they don’t want to spend money. So let’s stop kidding ourselves when we all know this.
Preservation is why it’s important to have emulators as soon as someone has figured out how to get one running. Nintendo should be embarrassed that pirating their games often lets these people experience their games better than if the games were run through official channels. I was sure tempted to pirate Metroid Dread instead of buying it, but it wasn’t because I couldn’t afford it, just wanted it for free, or had some notion of retribution toward Nintendo. I was tempted because the Switch is terrible hardware, I prefer to play games on my PC, and it would run better on my PC. I think that was the last Nintendo game I bought. I haven’t pirated any Switch games to date, because the only actual retribution I want toward Nintendo is for both my money and my time to go to games where the companies are less shitty. I’m not going to fault someone for wanting to play Tears of the Kingdom at frame rates higher than 23 FPS and resolutions better than 540p with no anti aliasing, and the best way for Nintendo to cut back on that piracy is to make the game for PC like everyone else is doing these days, but they know the upside of Switch sales is worth more to them than what these pirates cost them. Piracy will also preserve the game better than Nintendo ever will. I honestly don’t care what the percentages are of freeloaders by comparison, because it doesn’t matter.
EDIT: Oh, btw, I have pirated plenty of their back catalog, and I’m sure you have too. I’d love to buy them, like I bought Sega Genesis games and like I bought old Mega Man games on Steam, but how strange! There’s no legal way to buy those old Nintendo games digitally. You can only rent them in perpetuity. Nah, I’ll just pirate them.
Again, there are many reasons I agree with. I just don’t like people behind preservation they aren’t actually doing. I am clearly pro-emulation. Half of my consoles are modded and all my computers have emulators, all of which are loaded with games I definitely purchased and backed up in adherence to all laws pertaining to this issue.
If you’re downloading stuff because you want to play for free - which can be because of a lack of access (financial or otherwise) or a myriad of other reasons (perhaps it’s a milestone work but you don’t want to support a piece of shit dev) - then just be honest.
which I explained in the part of my comment you left out.
Pardon me. Here is the part you left out:
It cheapens the endeavor
You’ll forgive me if I can’t seem to scrape enough detail about your argument out of that.
Piracy fully supports the endeavor of archiving. The motivations of pirates has nothing at all to do with it. Archiving springs from piracy, it is a consequence of piracy. And the corporations you are de-facto acting as defense counsel for here have proven over and over again it means less than nothing to them.
But I’m making assumptions about your argument, because apparently you think “cheapens the endeavor” is a real mic drop.
It supports it about as much rightwing fuckbois shouting “FREE SPEECH” every time they get in trouble fully supports the first amendment. It’s a dishonest shield by people who want free shit and have no intention of doing anything remotely like archiving/preserving. And as I’ve said before, I don’t care that they want it for free. I just don’t want to hear bullshit excuses.
The 3DS and Wii U digital stores were just decommissioned, and preservation is a bullshit excuse?
Preservation is noble. Most pirates aren’t doing preservation. You know it, I know it, everyone in this thread knows it. They have a hard drive full of stuff they want to play/watch for free. That’s a far cry from following 3-2-1 protocol, let alone real archive standards. Hence “which they are not doing.”
Edit: it bears mentioning that I actually don’t begrudge people who pirate necessarily. I just don’t like it when they hide behind real reasons when they aren’t actually doing it for those reasons. It cheapens the endeavor and they’re just straight up lying. If you’re downloading stuff because you want to play for free - which can be because of a lack of access (financial or otherwise) or a myriad of other reasons (perhaps it’s a milestone work but you don’t want to support a piece of shit dev) - then just be honest. But the simple fact is we all know most people pirate because it’s easy and they don’t want to spend money. So let’s stop kidding ourselves when we all know this.
Preservation is why it’s important to have emulators as soon as someone has figured out how to get one running. Nintendo should be embarrassed that pirating their games often lets these people experience their games better than if the games were run through official channels. I was sure tempted to pirate Metroid Dread instead of buying it, but it wasn’t because I couldn’t afford it, just wanted it for free, or had some notion of retribution toward Nintendo. I was tempted because the Switch is terrible hardware, I prefer to play games on my PC, and it would run better on my PC. I think that was the last Nintendo game I bought. I haven’t pirated any Switch games to date, because the only actual retribution I want toward Nintendo is for both my money and my time to go to games where the companies are less shitty. I’m not going to fault someone for wanting to play Tears of the Kingdom at frame rates higher than 23 FPS and resolutions better than 540p with no anti aliasing, and the best way for Nintendo to cut back on that piracy is to make the game for PC like everyone else is doing these days, but they know the upside of Switch sales is worth more to them than what these pirates cost them. Piracy will also preserve the game better than Nintendo ever will. I honestly don’t care what the percentages are of freeloaders by comparison, because it doesn’t matter.
EDIT: Oh, btw, I have pirated plenty of their back catalog, and I’m sure you have too. I’d love to buy them, like I bought Sega Genesis games and like I bought old Mega Man games on Steam, but how strange! There’s no legal way to buy those old Nintendo games digitally. You can only rent them in perpetuity. Nah, I’ll just pirate them.
Again, there are many reasons I agree with. I just don’t like people behind preservation they aren’t actually doing. I am clearly pro-emulation. Half of my consoles are modded and all my computers have emulators, all of which are loaded with games I definitely purchased and backed up in adherence to all laws pertaining to this issue.
Why?
spoiler
asdfasdfsadfasfasdf
Pardon me. Here is the part you left out:
You’ll forgive me if I can’t seem to scrape enough detail about your argument out of that.
Piracy fully supports the endeavor of archiving. The motivations of pirates has nothing at all to do with it. Archiving springs from piracy, it is a consequence of piracy. And the corporations you are de-facto acting as defense counsel for here have proven over and over again it means less than nothing to them.
But I’m making assumptions about your argument, because apparently you think “cheapens the endeavor” is a real mic drop.
It supports it about as much rightwing fuckbois shouting “FREE SPEECH” every time they get in trouble fully supports the first amendment. It’s a dishonest shield by people who want free shit and have no intention of doing anything remotely like archiving/preserving. And as I’ve said before, I don’t care that they want it for free. I just don’t want to hear bullshit excuses.