@emmausgamer@ZidaneAstron@NerdiestNic That doesn't do anything to the original claim you made that piracy doesn't preserve games. All instances you brought up were a 3rd party taking the data and preserving it themselves, often while going against the companies who made them.
@emmausgamer@ZidaneAstron@NerdiestNic Ok so if it's the sites preserving the torrents and the rom files, that's still piracy as preservation. And also, some people absolutely do preserve roms if they have the space, there's entire packs out there. But even if I concede that the majority of preservers are websites,
"Oh no' people aren't willingly letting us harvest their data and forcibly charge them more money"! You fucking people will be the economic ruin of the world. Keynsians.
@emmausgamer@ZidaneAstron@NerdiestNic Yes they absolutely are. Piracy sites for films have exploded in popularity, emulators are moving at the speed of sound, what metric are you using? And the reason they do is because of Nintendo and others like it failing to preserve thier shit and taking it away with no refunds.
@emmausgamer@ZidaneAstron@NerdiestNic The act of game preservation in that context is legally piracy. Also game piracy nowadays is universally about prservation. Look at the PS5 emulator front ends. Sony's removing preservation via physical media and the community pirated the games to preserve them.
@emmausgamer@ZidaneAstron@NerdiestNic Sorry what the fuck are you on about? You just linked a website made by hackers and pirates(a cool website btw) and said this was a good thing Nintendo did because they haven't taken the game data doen yet?
@emmausgamer@ZidaneAstron@NerdiestNic Yes you can, and I'm glad you can, but that's not due to Nintendo's grace that's due to the efforts of pirates and game preservation people.
@ZidaneAstron@emmausgamer@NerdiestNic So what, you should pay for things twice if yoy live through a shop shutting down? The fuck kind of logic is that?
@PosterTubs You're fucking delusional if you think everyone is pro-AI. Flock cameras and digital ID are enough to make anyone want to strip them for GPU's.