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This, as well as vilifying emulation (despite admitting that legal emulation exists), patenting basic game mechanics, and cracking down on a charity, have shown me that Nintendo is just pure evil.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 20 points 1 month ago

They go after emulation because all the times they tried to go after debugging tools used to dump roms and copy games, they lost. Even if they win their arguments against emulation, it wouldn't stop the process of copying the game just the part where you could play it. And then it would also bite them in the ass because they themselves use emulation to continue to sell you shit from the 80's.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What.

You buy a new switch, log into your account, and download them. Or put your physical games into the new Switch.

You're describing every console ever, but blaming Nintendo specifically. Why?

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

because they’d rather blame a company they never liked anyway than admit the problem is systemic

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Isn't this referring to the progress you have made in a specific video game?

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago

I just bought a switch 2 and it just transferred all my switch 1 games over without even asking me

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

and that's why the only thing i don't pirate is music, because they actually did well with music. Everything else, i sail the seas. You buy stuff and 1) they can just take it away if they lose the rights to it, and 2) the DRM is bullshit.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

because they actually did well with music.

I don't even know what the fuck this is referring to

[–] stray@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

In addition to what else she said, (depending on the service) you can just download an actual music file and copy it onto as many drives as you like, almost like you own it or something. This is how video and games should work also, especially with regard to lack of exclusivity.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What are you talking about? I have had YouTube Music, Spotify and Deezer... none allow you to download music you can copy elsewhere.

YouTube Music allows you to dowload the song you uploaded to it (but you already owned all that so they are not giving you any favours) and the rest allow to download encrypted, DRM protected files which you can only play on their apps... certainly not copy them to as many drives as we like

[–] stray@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can buy DRM-free music files from various services including Bandcamp, Amazon, and iTunes.

As far as I know, the three you mentioned are streaming services only with no option for purchase.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bandcamp, yes (I think)... Amazon or iTunes, no. There are guides on how to remove them but you are "pirating" as per their worthless rules

As far as I know, the three you mentioned are streaming services only with no option for purchase.

Yes, and streaming services is what I thought we were talking about

[–] stray@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

Music purchases are DRM-free on both services. The guides are referring to local downloads while subscribed to Amazon's streaming service, which are DRM-protected as you're only renting them.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it means that there's none of this "exclusive" shit. You sign up to a platform based on the features of the software and other reasons like how much they pay artists, not by what content they host. It's the same on every platform. Plus it's a lot easier to manage on a paid platform than it is to download music. You get a world of content for a relatively small price.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It’s the same on every platform.

It's definitely not, there are differences... but I see what you were referring to here.

I would still not say they "did it well" because streaming is literally killing the music industry and the artists are getting shafted hard by them. However, I understand your comment about not going for exclusivity (for the most part)

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The good guys at Nintendo all retired. It's being run by a venture capital guy now.