• Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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    2 months ago

    Barring me from getting old games in a modern platform will not stop me from playing old games on a modern platform.

    The sooner they realize that and plan accordingly by releasing their old catalogs for appropriate pricing, the sooner they will get what they want and piracy and emulation will plummet.

    When people have a cheap and easy way of doing something without wondering if they’re about to get SWATed, they’re way more likely to actually do that.

    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I’m sure you meant it as hyperbole, but SWAT will not actually show up to anyone’s home just for pirating video games. At most, a handful of local police or FBI may knock on your door, but SWAT are not called in for something like that. Not unless you have some history with the police of extreme violence or you have given them reason to suspect you are going to put up a fight.

      A person is most likely to recieve a letter in the mail or an email from the lawyers of Nintendo before police are invovled.