Did Nintendo download a Mario ROM and sell it back to us?

Re:Did Nintendo download a Mario ROM and sell it back to us? by hunter2_ on Friday January 20, 2017 @07:28PM (#13448074)

This reminds me of when I used to do outdoor movie setups for a municipality's parks/culture group. We would obtain the necessary license for public performance of the film, and with that came a loaner DVD, but then I'd feed the projector from a laptop using a torrented Bluray rip for the higher quality. I'd then delete the file without playing it under any other circumstance. Not piracy, amirite?

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Re:Did Nintendo download a Mario ROM and sell it back to us? by DaiPlusPlus on Saturday January 21, 2017 @12:06AM (#13448925)

What about the cases where the film distributors charge $x for the DVD version and $y (where $y > $x) for the BD version? - and you licensed the DVD version but played a BD torrent?

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Re:Did Nintendo download a Mario ROM and sell it back to us? by DKnoll on Friday January 20, 2017 @07:32PM (#13448087)

I hate those DVDs with a passion... the password protection is a bit much.

It wasn't so long ago that they still came on VHS, too.

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Re:Did Nintendo download a Mario ROM and sell it back to us? by hunter2_ on Friday January 20, 2017 @07:38PM (#13448116)

I actually didn't know about the password... we were popping them into a consumer DVD player and they just played. But between fiddling with remotes and the audience seeing the OSD play/pause I just got sick of it and switched over to the laptop... which has no optical drive, but does have a torrent client :)

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Re:Did Nintendo download a Mario ROM and sell it back to us? by DKnoll on Friday January 20, 2017 @07:43PM (#13448130)

Ah, might just be certain distributors or studios then. I did a similar movies in the park event many times and we tended to show Disney movies.

I miss wrangling giant inflatable screens sometimes but quickly come to my senses.

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