Nintendo continues its fight against gamers

[Lord Windos]

I've heard about this happening from Jim Sterling, and I have just as dim of an opinion about this as most retro gammers. Its not impossible to find ROMs and stuff for older games because of their decision to suddenly enforce their power of law/copyright on others, but its a whole lot more tedious and difficult now. Had to scramble and get several games I wanted to play/replay later on my computer for preservation's shake, so that if all the ROMs ARE taken off the web, I still have copies I can play/push out on the web when the heat dies down.

To clarify, Net Neutrality being repelled had nothing to do with Nintendo's actions (Though both are scummy/crummy in their own rights). They (The company) had a legal right to crack down on those websites regardless of NN, as they (The ROM sites) were technically distributing the IPs/Games illegally, and therefore 'stealing' them/enabling them to be 'stolen'.

The problem I have with it is.....well, most of those ROMs are for old games that have pretty much made all the money they ever will (Since they are physical media, rather than having a digitial release that could potentially make muns forever), and/or are so old/hard to get that no company would be able to profit on them anymore UNLESS they re-released them themselves in a cheap + convenient format. Those sites were, in practical terms, absolutely ZERO threat to the big corporations in terms of profits. This move is just an example of companies not wanting people to have stuff unless THEY get something out of it, and wanting to exert absolute control over their property. What they are doing is 'right and correct' .....but its also petty, contemptuous, and very over reaching/grasping.

For those of you that want to learn more about this issue in a timely, more eloquent manner, here's the video I watched about this from Jim Sterling. He does a much better job explaining stuff than my ramblings: http://www.thejimquisition.com/nintendo-...quisition/