alt Hacker NewsIt's not just you who you are affecting, but also all the people who worked on the game, Nintendo and Microsoft, and even the entire video game industry by doing things like this.
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Yeah, Nintendo AND Microsoft of all companies really do deserve all the pity they can get, seeing as they’re such pro-consumer, fan-friendly, not-at-all monopolistic, completely altruistic entities. Right?
We already had copyright law for that. We didn't need to make some code illegal, too.
Oh no!
Won't someone think of the multi billion dollar corporations?!
If peop- THIEEEVES can just download old games forever, how will these companies make money by selling new games? Or reselling the old games in their half-baked emulation offerings!
Truly the author behind this software deserves a special place in hell for creating such an evil!
(Obligatory reminder the above is to be taken as hyperbolic sarcasm. The very idea that someone would jump to defend corporations against software designed for cultural preservation is saddening)
Continuing to play discontinued games and sharing that joy with new people and generations seems like a good way of strengthening an industry