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I really like the Switch. I bought it solely to play Breath of the Wild and I regret nothing. Actually if I could play it on PC in 4K that would be nice but we
by jmyeet 4y ago
I really like the Switch. I bought it solely to play Breath of the Wild and I regret nothing. Actually if I could play it on PC in 4K that would be nice but we live in the world we live in.
But Nintendo has had some pretty despicable practices when it comes to so-called IP infringement and this is just one example of that. As i understand this case, the guy merely sold devices that would allow others to play pirated games. Is that correct? That's insane. He's not even selling thos pirated games (AFAIK).
So called "unauthorized" use of a device you ostensibly own should never be a criminal offence.
If Nintendo wanted to sue the guy in civil court to shut him down, that'd be one thing. But getting the criminal "justice" system to do their dirty work? Can you really look at that and not be convinced that the governments works for and on the behest of the capital-owning class? Really?
Want another example? Steven Donziger [1] helped Ecuador win a $9.5B judgement against Chevron for their massive and egregious pollution in Ecuador to which a US Federal Court judge empowered a private oil law firm to criminally prosecute him in the US for fraud. He was held on $800,000 bail and was under home detention for years over "misdemeanour contempt of court* charges.
But I digress...
Another example of Nintendo's heavyhandedness: Nintendo used to copystrike streamers for streaming their games. I don't believe they do it anymore and I'm not sure when exactly they stopped.
But that just goes to show just how insane this IP situation is. Most stremers are technically in violation of copyright law. It's just that the copyright holders aren't choosing to enforce those rights. Even if they don't, you can still get a strike for, say, music in the game (eg the GTA games suffer from this).
[1]: https://theintercept.com/2022/04/27/deconstructed-steven-donziger-chevron-ecuador/ https://theintercept.com/2022/04/27/deconstructed-steven-don...
- emodendroket 4y ago> Actually if I could play it on PC in 4K that would be nice but we live in the world we live in. You can.
- jmyeet 4y agoI know there are unofficial ways of doing this but the assets and even the engine aren't designed this high a resolution. Upsacle all you want. It's not the same thing.
- crummy 4y agoI've had that experience with upscaling games from older-era (like N64) but Breath of the Wild looks pretty amazing at 4k here: https://youtu.be/-qb22AmxWSc?t=2935 https://youtu.be/-qb22AmxWSc?t=2935
- smoldesu 4y agoNormally I would agree, but this is a 720-900p game we're talking about here. I'll take the 4k/60fps CEMU mod any day of the week...
- stewx 4y agoTeam Xecutor was not merely selling devices to "run homebrew software on your Switch". They specifically marketed it for piracy, and according to the US Dept. of Justice: > To support this illegal activity, Team Xecuter allegedly helped create and support online libraries of pirated videogames for its customers, and several of the enterprise’s devices came preloaded with numerous pirated videogames.