It's impossible to take seriously the argument that copyright is broken because people can't play 1 famous game for free. At least say you want to pay Nintendo to play the game...
I’d argue it’s broken since the Ordinary Sausage guy was getting DMCA content claims on his YouTube videos where he himself sings parodies of well known songs with sausage themed lyrics in clear, blatant, obvious fair use.
Whenever DMCA let the C evolve into needs to be wiped cleaned and reset/rethought.
> At least say you want to pay Nintendo to play the game...
They possibly did this 30 years ago but now they can’t play the game - despite the license they purchased - because they are missing the original hardware. For the same reason I would never pay Nintendo (again) to get permission (again) to play Pokemon Red: it doesn’t matter to me (and it never will) that I’m somehow “infringing” because I want to enjoy culture that I grew up on. It just makes copyright law a joke that people will reasonably ignore until it is less farcical. Oh no, boo hoo, they make a little bit less money; I’m over here playing (not a beloved game from my childhood, but) the world’s smallest violin in solidarity for the profits of the largest media conglomerate in the world.
Not trying to attack the above commenter but god damn am I sick of hearing how I should be paying money again to enjoy something I “““owned””” in my childhood. Fuck that every day of the week. I do not want to pay Nintendo to play Pokemon Red, I never will, and that is reasonable even if I choose to play it.
While this is true and a big part of it, we can't deny there's a lot of people right now who would like to play currently active Mario and Zelda games for free. Because they're cheap, or they hate Nintendo, but not enough to not play their games.
Nintendo, believe it or not, needs to make money. No money = no mario. And I like mario. And the seven seas likes mario, too. So that's not good for anyone.
There's a middle ground here, but in terms of messaging such middle ground is severely lacking.
Yes, I agree and appreciate the added nuance which I clearly was not in the mood for with my initial comment. I would not say the same thing about Pokemon Scarlet today, though I probably will be in 30 years. ;)
