lfg

Sounds real scummy

No Pika, they still charge for it

bitcoin miners in the games

ez money

don't actually charge $0.00

I don't like the idea of a franchise being open for just anyone to use

I think Disney should retain the right to soley monetize Mickey Mouse forever

But I think; if we wanted, we should be able to animate Mickey Mouse fucking Donald Duck

can you imagine the insane amount of shovelware that would pop up if anyone could make content under any currently popular IP

as long as we make no money off doing so

so

i can be fine with that to be fair

Okay, so what you want is stronger fair use such that it is free game to use anything so long as you do not make a profit

thats how it should be

to not let people like

nintendo

fuck shit up

That's a better way to explain part of my view

yes Pika

case example the multi year projects

shut down in seconds by nintendo

I don't know how that relates to torrenting games though spooky

And I'm not sure why you say shovelware would be any worse if it was some shitty drawing of Mario, versus what it is now

Shovelware is shovelware

seems like a tangential topic

torrenting is inherently the reproduction of content, for no cost

except the old 3DS freeshop, that's the one place where I think it was legit stealing

See, I agree with you on the freedom to use IP, you lose me there. I think preventing people from mass reuploading content like that is a needed evil. I think if torrenting games became the norm the logical step to combat that is more scummy microtransaction monitization methods

Take music Pika

instead of games

Music piracy was the sinlge biggest source of P2P activity

for more than a decade

it's almost at zero now, despite being easier than ever

the profit is also higher than ever

Because they gave up after things like youtube replaced the need to torrent music

I don't think (maybe I'm wrong) that most people consume music on YouTube

Music videos, sure

spotify

and itunes

a lot of music has billions of views

are the biggest providers of music

youtube doesnt even come close

Satellite Radio

niche streaming services too

All that shit contributes to why piracy is down all well. Having a ton of easy to use services disincentives piracy

People still buy CDs, still pay for streaming music, pay for downloads on Bandcamp, pay for merch, go to concerts

despite, piracy being easier than ever

so

and I promise you, it's not a morality thing

another example

is netflix and etc.

netflix/streaming services lowered the amount of video piracy by a lot

that's the opposite now though

but now with them getting worse, and so many more services

with 10+ streaming services

video piracy is coming back

piracy is ramping back up

yep

Yeah exactly, it is a service problem that leads to piracy

if those services were less shit, it would not go up

anime is so widely pirated in the west because all the services are fucking garbage

and because

most of the viewers

are literal children

so

they are not catering to how I want to consume that media

I don't want shitty 720p streaming from CR

with

censored subs

^

or bad subs

yeah, I get that. They should absolutely not be shit

or no subs at all

based/redpilled subs

which is a lot of the reason I have no issue with just watching anime elsewhere

I don;t want to wait 4 months for Netflix to tell my how whitey gets fucked by her black bull

but with games, steam is allaround a good serivce in my eyes

Which is why I buy a ton of shit on Steam

im judy

It doesn't mean I have an obligation to only use Steam though