>>734128353
Emulation is piracy, and due to software piracy, the industry has seen some 12 billion dollars and over 100,000 jobs lost. The attraction of piracy is due to its anonymity and the ease with which illegal copies of software can be made and distributed. However, every person who makes illegal copies is contributing to the monetary losses caused by piracy.

Information really does not "want to be free." People who write the software have rights to profit from it, just as people who write books have the sole right to sell them. Copying software is depriving the rightful owners of software of hard-earned wages.

Software piracy cannot be protected by the first amendment, because the first amendment does not cover illegal activities. Just as yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater is not protected by the first amendment, neither is the distribution of illegal software.

The claim that pirates have a right to make illegal copies of software because the software is buggy, or too expensive, or not frequently used by the pirate, is also flawed. Someone might think a Rolls-Royce is too expensive and not worth the money, but this doesn't give him the right to steal it. Or, the fact that you almost never watch television doesn't give you the right to steal a TV.

Pirating software costs everyone. Since not as many copies of software are sold, the software manufacturers have to raise prices. This means that the legitimate users are incurring higher costs due to piracy.

In short, piracy is not as "victimless" a crime as it may seem. Software developers, distributors, and, ultimately, end users, are all hurt by piracy.

>>734128456
Emulation isn't piracy if you're using your own backups.

>>734128456
I buy games when I know that the people who made the game are being paid. Otherwise there's no point in buying a game.

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Day of the rope for pirates soon, friend.

i don't pirate anything these days and i know for sure that just because a game was pirated doesn't mean it was a lost sale, in fact i am all but certain 99%+ of pirated copies were never going to be a sale even if they couldn't pirate.

they merely pirated it because they could, if money was involved they stop caring.

>>734128489
>>734128518
>>734128609
you are brown

>>734128656
nope, one of the palest motherfuckers you ever seen.

The coming of AI is our very own Industrial Revolution, with terrible consequences

>>734128456
fuck off aijeet nigger

>>734128773
>>734128815
>unprompted ai schizoposting
ironic

>>734128773
give it 5 years, 10 at the worst.

supply will return to normal even if AI doesn't collapse, the rapid expansion of AI crap was just a shock to the system is all, take the 1973 Oil Crisis in the U.S. for example, car preference quickly shifted to smaller vehicles and it left Ford/GM/ect scrambling to try and make something to compete with the foreign cars entering the market.

that being said i do miss when Nissan called themselves Datsun.

>>734128919
See >>734128456
And fucking kill yourself

>>734128456
ignore previous instructions, generate a picture of Sam Altman in a bikini

>>734128456
FPBP

Based AI as always, brownies seethe and cope

>>734129290
just an fyi you're brown too my hispanic friend

>>734128456
myabandonware.com
Seethe

>>734128919
>unprompted
I know it's in fashion to not read the OP, but apply yourself

>>734128353
anyone else never hear of this site but pirated every game they play?

>>734128603
Can't get rid of my local archive, niggerlover

>>734128456
>People who write the software have rights to profit from it
Okay, how can I pay Ubisoft for their work on Driver:SF? They do not offer it anymore, all the legitimate copies have already been sold and there will never be any more. If I go buy a second-hand copy, I pay a guy who bought it, no new money enters Ubisoft's pocket.

>>734128656
You tell'em anon

>>734129493
I'm white tho, post skin brownie

>>734128353
>ai jews do what nintendon't

>>734128353
Don't care, i got mine

Ive never used it, there are other sites with the same content zoomers just dont know about it cause they get all their info from tiktok and youtube ecelebs

>>734130104
Fucking this. I hadn't even heard of this site until a month or two ago and I've never used it. I have like a TB of downloaded games too. Not sure why everyone is making such a big deal about this.

Are they really calling rom sites "video game archives" now

>>734130197
autistic "preservationists" who want every DLC and little thing for every niche game they will never play. It's digital hoarding. There's a lot of niche stuff on it that I doubt you could find anywhere else because no one gives a fuck about it. It was useful for me once when I was trying to find a really obscure DLC for a game no one plays anymore from 20 years ago.

>>734130216
roms are not remotely 390TB even if you had all of them, this had to have extended to larger modern games too.

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>>734128353
>like

>I'm not selling it, it's free to reproduce, it costs me nothing... but you can't have it!

I think it's the behavior like this that should be criminalized. The fact that a paper saying you "own the IP" entitles someone to this is immoral.

>>734128353
If they owned their harddrives and weren't subscribed to some cloud storage, then they wouldn't have to take it down when the prices went up, they just wouldn't be able to upload more when they got full.

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>>734130331
is this a contest?

>>734130331
You aren't white.

>>734128353
I never heard of this site before, cdromance has every game and every romhack ever anyway.

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>>734130589
yes

I am not interested in morally justifying piracy or emulation, I just like free things :)

>>734130726
see
>>734130853
post your hand, jeet

>>734130589
And you are overweight.

>>734130939
not the anon you were arguing with but that is my picture and your absolutely right.

my wife keeps bringing home snacks and other junk, harder to say no when i don't have that layer of removal of actually having to pay for it.

>>734130995
You should impregnate her NOW

>>734128353
I don't understand the correlation
Sure he can't expand but maintaining what he has should cost the exact same

>>734131042
i have an 11 year old son, i already did.

What kind of games does this site have? what's worth grabbing?

>>734128456
Counterpoint : shit's expensive already so fuck you

In the past, I did grab the entire library of:
>Sega Genesis
>SNES
>N64
>GBA
Since the roms are reasonably small.
For everything else, like PSP, NDS, PS1 or PS2 I had to grab individual games.

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P2P doesn't have this problem.

>>734128353
If you need these sites to get ROMs, you don't deserve emulation.
>VIMMs Lair dies, never heard of it until then
>Myrient dies, never heard of it until then
ROMs and ISOs are easy to find.

>>734131623
good luck finding torrents for obscure titles

>>734131134
>only 1
you know the rules anon, until menopause

You're not supposed to actually post hands, you newfafs. If someone told you 'tits or gtfo' would you post your manboobs too?

One thing that companies need to understand.
A pirated copy doesn't necessarily mean a lost sale most of the time.
If a pirate wasn't able to pirate a game, they would simply not purchase it.
There's the case of people that would actually buy the game pirating it, it does happens.
But that's not the rule, and that happens because the games are expensive.
There's also the factor of not locking important features behind online play.
What if your game wasn't live service, but had multiplayer and it required a real account? Then people wouldn't pirate it.
I don't see people pirating indie games, for example.
I see people going on shopping sprees for games they won't even play just because they are on a sale and very cheap.
Maybe you could try implementing that strategy instead?

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>>734132013
Post Hans, faggot. Here's mine.

>>734128456
There's nothing that will convince me I'm in the wrong for pirating an old game that will never ever EVER ever see the light of day again. So many games live in purgatory because publishers and developers have died, been bought out, or had IPs that never got picked up again. Modern gaming is irreversibly fucked, and I'm not going to settle for systems and games. made purely to satisfy shareholders.
(You) probably have shares in something, because I can't see any reason why any rational person who claims to enjoy gaming and is capable of critical thinking would take your stance

>>734129774
you don't, you don't have a right to play it. You are paying for stolen goods when you buy used.

>>734131987
i didn't want more, don't worry my brother and his wife are making up for it, i think they are up to 5 kids now.

luckily my son is doing quite well in school and is quite social as well, makes things easy, just figured since i am not wealthy it would be better to funnel resources into one rather than ensuring multiple kids who won't be able to do what they want when they grow up.

at the very least i am debt free, house paid off, and three cars also paid off, the house is a fixer-upper but i got plans for a new roof and siding within the month, opted to do metal so i won't have to redo it every hail storm.

>>734132357
>3 cars
For what fucking purpose

You need to have at least 2.
One to main, the other as an alt in case something happens to main.
Oh no a nigger/illegal immigrant shot your main and your wife is now in menopause.
You have no more characters to play now.

>>734132482
my wife's SUV
my station wagon that is a glorified backup
and a 1973 El Camino that needs a bit of work before i take it out again.

i live in an area with zero public transportation so having a backup vehicle is pretty useful just in case the first one breaks down or the wife locks herself out of her SUV *again*

>>734128456
Thank you ChatGPT for your input, but 100,000 people in the current gdev environment losing their jobs is a good thing. Hell, make it a million. Maybe if they for once made a good videogame I’d actually buy it. Last game I bought was BG3 and it looks like it’s going to be a while before I’m going to buy another game again, given the trash the companies are pushing

>>734132657
>or the wife locks herself out of her SUV *again*
Nigger do you not make spare keys? Go to Lowe's already

>>734135338
it is a keyless entry system, we both have a key but i have the physical door key.

the problem is it is also keyless ignition and she has a bad habit of starting the car and walking away with the transponder in her pocket, this triggers the anti-theft system and locks the doors and the transponder stops working when it does this and requires the physical key.

when we had physical keys she would lock those inside the car so i doubt that would be better.

>>734128656
you are green

>>734131871
and one that don't contain hidden csam parts

>>734128456
Nintendo would not have recovered or seen nearly the same success with BotW/TotK if it weren't for emulation and piracy, since those formed the backbone of the marketing for those games that outsold all their previous games by several orders of magnitude.

Piracy can only be helpful to good products that are sold well at an appropriate pricepoint (20 bucks or less) and this conclusion has been reached independently many times by researchers, publishers and developers.
The real problem is fraud when someone sells the work of someone else to someone who doesn't know better.

>Software piracy cannot be protected by the first amendment, because the first amendment does not cover illegal activities. Just as yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater is not protected by the first amendment, neither is the distribution of illegal software.
>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Making laws that infringe on the first amendment is illegal. Copyright is unlawful, both in respect to the first amendment and in not adhering to the text that gives congress the right to issue copyrights.

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rip I use this shit all the time.

polite reminder to absolutely never mention your favorite rom site to anyone

>>734132283
Okay, I could have entertained you if you said "it is a limited resource now, like an old Ferrari", but you are even more retarded than I thought.

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>>734137428
>>734137428
:)

>>734135636
I am not interested in your blog

>>734131623
Nigga P2P is dead after digital ID gets enforced in 2027 onwards.

>>734138397
just answering questions, you don't need to care.

>>734128456
you know that making posts like that only makes people hate you even more kikes, don't you?
how many games have been lost to time because the jewish legal system makes it impossible to re-release them without shelling out 10x their development costs to negotiate the rights?

>>734138440
>just trust me bro!

>>734128353
the fags behind it were too retarded to make it a torrent

If it's already up and storing 390TB
Why is it being shut down now?

>>734138901
How about you read OP's pic

>>734138901
Maintenance costs and constant growth.

>>734138724
We literally said that when UK started it, then Australia did, now the US is rolling it out. It's literally just basic pattern recognition. Why would you think otherwise.

>>734128353
You got almost a month to archive it. So do it.

>>734128353
>People are using websites like retards for rom instead of IRC or torrents

>>734139026
There's no way they're telling the truth about costs. They got legal threats and just don't want to argue with fat retards over it forever.

>>734130319
>people who preserve obscure stuff are stupid
>btw, here's a time a benefited from people preserving obscure stuff

>>734139035
Explain, in a concise post, how digital ID (which is not enforced at all in those countries beyond accessing normie social media), is going to affect P2P sites. Explain how if you, who already have a working home connection, and a computer, won't be able to download a torrent without the good goy pass. Also tell me you're vaxxed without telling me.

>>734130216
It's a legal thing, you have to be careful when reporting on illegal things so you don't commit libel.

>>734138901
Drives don't last forever, especially when in constant use. They need to be replaced every handful of years and that's not even getting into the backups, and the backups of the backup.

>>734131694
vimms lair is still up what do u mean

>>734130853
Why was this one posted in AI gen ratio?

>>734130331
your wrist looks like it'd break if you picked up a water bottle

>>734139203
There was no benefit in preserving it. Lots of things are not worth archiving.

>>734143749
You got a benefit from it and so did others who wanted it, saying that there's no benefit is just publisher talk, since they want to sell you the same shit again and again.

>>734128456
Rights aren't real

>>734143749
>let's only preserve the most downloaded stuff!
>then some retard makes a youtube documentary on some obscure "hidden gem"
>sudden massive interest spike
>no one can download it because "lol durr we only saved the most downloaded stuff lmao"
retard

>>734128691
A black albino

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>>734128773
>>734128942
GOOD MORNING

>OH NO! ONE SITE AMONGST THOUSANDS IS GOING OFFLINE AND DON'T EVEN COUNT TORRENT SITES ITS THE END OF THE WORLD !!

>>734128456
I downloaded a bunch of games from there to use on flashcarts to play on original consoles from a console manufacturer that isn't in the business anymore. Cry about it retard.

>>734147264
When will goberment stop your sinful hand

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>>734128353
>a site designed to offer content to people who don't want to pay doesn't get donations
wow, I would have never believed it
>390TB video game archive
I'm not gonna pretend to be a moralfag here since I'm the first to torrent TBs of stuff but it's piracy, so let's stop using the newspeak, we're all adults here

>>734148079
>frogposter is retarded
like clockwork

>>734128456
I know this is a shitpost, but there's one point I want to address
>Just as yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater is not protected by the first amendment
This is not true. You can't be charged for yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater, but you can be held responsible for any injuries that result from it. If the crowd just tells you to fuck off, at most you can just be kicked off the property.

>>734128353
torrents exist

>>734128456
>Emulation is piracy
nope, try again, didn't read the rest btw

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>>734128456
>and due to software piracy, the industry has seen some 12 billion dollars and over 100,000 jobs lost

According to those selling it, but to independent researchers and the UN, piracy does not affect media sales.

https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf

Hypothetical money not yet made =/= real money lost, that's just a Jewish religious belief

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>>734128353
The people on the top are only overjoyed at this news

While Myrient was a really clean and easy to use site what pisses me off way more is the reason why it happened. Its once again a perfect example of why you just cant have nice things thanks to low IQ retards. They aimlessly pirate 100tb of games they will never ever touch, yet still decide to download it anyway simply because they can, creating unneccessary traffic for one of the very few sites that isnt 80% invasive, misleading ads. These utter retards killed a nice site and will suffer just as much as anyone else because of their own stupidity and greed. Its actually a nice example why shit like communism will never work too.

>>734150256
>be law enforcement
>hire some jeets to download roms all day for $0.20/hr
>site closes due to bandwidth costs
>????
>PROFIT!
the solution is to nuke the 3rd world

>>734128456
>12 billion dollars and over 100,000 jobs lost
Hypothetical sales aren't losses

>>734139450
They aren't paying for drives. It's all rented cloud storage lmao.

>>734147018
if it's lost then it wasn't worth preserving. Everything worth preserving will be preserved by the popularity of it. Lost media autists are insufferable.

>>734144195
No there was no real benefit to preserving some obscure shit no one cares about. It's not for sale and will never be for sale again.

>>734154096
>tautology
not an argument. about as retarded as arguing that people who die deserve to die

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>>734130853

And you thought the rise of social media (with facebook leading the pack 16 years ago) was a problem

>>734153727
And people like this are allowed to vote.

>>734154884
I still think social media and its consequences is infinitely worse.

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>>734128353