Daily reminder that IP law is fucking stupid.
Unfair Competition Prevention Act
How is selling modified save data is unfairly competitive?
Because Nintendo wanted to sell those upgrades instead of someone patching them into the save file?
It’s really insane if this story is true.
You use a program to create a file. You modify the file that you created with the program using a different program. Company sues you claiming they own the file that you created with the program you legally purchased.
I wonder what tool chain Nintendo uses internally. Could Notepad++ sue Nintendo for modifying a text file created by Notepad++ without always using Notepad++? They’re unfairly cutting Notepad++ out of competition by using vim on txt files originally created with Notepad++ then profiting on the results by selling games that used the modified txt files after compiling them into games.
Japanese copyright law is literally insane. It’s simultaneously completely lax and unapplied (doujin, i.e. derivative fan works) and so constrictive you can’t breathe.
Competition is unfair to monopolies, so this law prevents competition. /j
When I was in school, I bought a Gameboy XPloder for 80 bucks and cheated Mews in Pokemon Red. I sold the Mews to everyone in school for 5 bucks a pop and made back way more than I invested. I don’t care if Nintendo finds out because I was 12 when comitting this heinous crime. As a bonus, I also never taxed those business profits. Checkmate capitalists.
Holy shit man, Lex Luthor over here!
This is too much, this has to stop. Can’t we do anything??
Don’t buy anything from a Japanese video game company.
No that vote with your wallet shit has gotten old and crusty. I can’t think of a single company that has worked for. There needs to be legal consequences for this, fight fire with fire
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some instances of voting with your wallet having desired outcomes.
