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Why is Nintendo obliged to provide older content, or otherwise allow emulation? If a company ceases to provide something, does that give you rights to acquire
by avindroth 5y ago
Why is Nintendo obliged to provide older content, or otherwise allow emulation?
If a company ceases to provide something, does that give you rights to acquire that something illegally?
- chaostheory 5y agoIt doesn't give anyone the rights to anything. What it does though is provide a massive incentive for piracy. While I don't pirate myself, I can see many rational people do it for Nintendo products, and I don't have a good argument against it.
- EMIRELADERO 5y ago> Why is Nintendo obliged to provide older content, or otherwise allow emulation? Provide older content, no, "allow" emulation, yes. It's not even "allow", Nintendo doesn't have the authority to allow or disallow anyone from making, distributing and running emulators.
- avindroth 5y agoThey might not have the legal authority, but is their firm stance against emulators morally questionable? I may agree their methods are questionable, but I don't know if their stance is. Nintendo's stance against emulation seems consistent with their approach to game design and game management.
- EMIRELADERO 5y agoIs the question of whether a company's action is "morally questionable" dependant on that action being consistent with similar actions done by the same company in the past?
- namlem 5y agoLegally? No. Morally? Yes.
- avindroth 5y agoHow are they morally obligated (or suggested) to provide access to older games?
- namlem 5y agoThey're not, but people are morally entitled to pirate them if they don't.
- Talanes 5y agoI view the morality around IP law as an implicit contract with society. Actual theft is wrong because I am depriving someone of something without their consent. Pirating is wrong because it disincentives the production of further work. If there's no option to pay, then piracy doesn't affect the incentive structure at all, except possibly sending a a signal that there's still demand there.
- antifa 5y agoNintendo is not obligated to offer services people would pay for, that's true.