Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators to target modders

Re:Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators ... by javajosh on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @11:54AM (#25583287)

Bad analogy. Information products require artificial scarcity. Literally everyone making a living wage on this site benefits from this fact. If you want to follow your line of reasoning to its logical conclusion, then fine. But what I see are people who benefit from this fact taking a holier-than-thou attitude toward Nintendo, and I object to the hypocrisy.

iFixit is safe because it doesn't really affect Apple's sales. It may put a slightly downward pressure on Apple Store repair revenue. But iFixit solutions require technical aptitude, time and skill to apply that most people don't have, and wouldn't spend on fixing a laptop even if they had it!

But what if iFixit sold a dohicky that defeats the copy protection on all software written for macOS? Do you think that's okay, and that their right to share that device is free speech?

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Re:Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators ... by belval on Saturday January 02, 2021 @05:34PM (#25617237)

My argument was more in line with what the modders are doing. If Nintendo wants to DCMA takedown every website distributing their games that were cracked I am perfectly fine with that.

The issue I have is that they target people who figure out how to run and copy cracked game from their device, and not those who are actively distributing them. While it makes perfect sense from their side, the images from the tweet feed do not present a compelling argument that the modders are breaking the law and as such they are intimidating law-abiding citizen which is horrifying.

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Re:Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators ... by stale2002 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @01:22PM (#25584366)

This is about modding. People have a right to mod their own hardware that they legally purchased.

That's all that matters.

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Re:Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators ... by javajosh on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:46PM (#25587160)

>That's all that matters.

No, it isn't. But thank you for illustrating one consequence of "dogmatic belief".

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Re:Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators ... by stale2002 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @11:39PM (#25589646)

People have a right to mod their own hardware. Thats the law.

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