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The scarcity of an item like a 25 year old Nintendo game will only increase with time, I think was the authors intention

• AstralStorm 5y ago
  And why would that be scarce if we had, say, a way to perfectly clone such items? It's actually quite trivial to do, only copyright is stopping that. The original has no intrinsic value over a perfect physical copy. (As opposed to a reproduction.)
  • mensetmanusman 5y ago
    Value is subjective. People value original artwork even though we can do per pixel exact copies beyond the resolution limit of human vision :)
  • AussieWog93 5y ago
    >It's actually quite trivial to do, only copyright is stopping that. That's not true at all. I sell games as a business and have to check them for authenticity. Things like print patterns and tactile properties of the gloss are both incredibly consistent across the genuine product and nearly impossible to reproduce perfectly. There are plenty of $1000+ games that have been around for decades, and not once has there even been a repro made that could pass as genuine to even an amateur. As far as copyright goes, outright pirate carts have been a thing since the atari days.