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vanilla_pepsi_head said:
Fuck Jewtendo. Charging full price for NES/SNES games from 30 years ago and requiring you to re-purchase them on every new console
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They won't even let you repurchase them at this point. You have to subscribe to a service to play 40 year old NES games. If they released a little $30-$40 cart every generation called Nes Classics with an emulator and 20 NES roms on it like Sega does for their Genesis games, at least you'd be able to buy the games and own them.
 
Never Scored said:
They won't even let you repurchase them at this point. You have to subscribe to a service to play 40 year old NES games. If they released a little $30-$40 cart every generation called Nes Classics with an emulator and 20 NES roms on it like Sega does for their Genesis games, at least you'd be able to buy the games and own them.
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It’s either that or go to a game store and physically buy the original game with a 400% markup because it’s a rare whatever the fuck.

Of course, there’s a third way. The best way. The only rational way if you’re not a retard.

I don’t know why Nintendo bases their entire operating model on making decisions that make downloading and emulating their games the most attractive option.
 
Fag Alert Major Fag Alert said:
@vanilla_pepsi_head hey! Call Nintendo by their real name. Japs! Otherwise, pirate all their games and only their Nintendo-owned games.
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Would you say this meme is still dank and relevant?

Nintendo.webp
 
Another pack of articles about the slow death of piracy on Amazon Fire TV sticks.

AFTVnews: Amazon to start blocking sideloaded piracy apps on Fire TVs — Confirmed by Amazon (archive)
An Amazon spokesperson has confirmed to me that “Through an expanded program led by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), a global coalition fighting digital piracy, we’ll now block apps identified as providing access to pirated content, including those downloaded from outside our Appstore.” The blocks will start in Germany and France and then roll out globally. Amazon would not say which specific apps would be blocked.
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The Verge: Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV Stick (archive)
(((illegal streaming)))

TorrentFreak: Happy Fire Stick Crackdown Malware Armageddon Month (archive)
While yet to appear on the official website, this week BeStreamWise has been circulating some basic information on what it says are the results of a new study. The premise is straightforward: Around 40% of people who stream content illegally suffer some kind of financial fraud as a result.

The research – among more than 2,000 Brits – found that, of those that have accessed illegally streamed content in the past 12 months, an alarming four in ten (39%) have suffered financial losses after being targeted by criminals. The average amount stolen was £1,680 – more than half of the average monthly gross salary in the UK – while one in 10 (11%) people lost more than £7,500.

Countering these claims seems pointless for two key reasons. Firstly, victims of this type of fraud typically have no idea who was responsible. They can try to narrow things down, but it rarely amounts to much. It’s self-reported guesswork at best; 65% of respondents said they had “near misses with hacking attempts whilst watching content illegally online” but what a near miss is supposed to look like depends on what the respondent believes they saw.
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
While yet to appear on the official website, this week BeStreamWise has been circulating some basic information on what it says are the results of a new study. The premise is straightforward: Around 40% of people who stream content illegally suffer some kind of financial fraud as a result.

The research – among more than 2,000 Brits – found that, of those that have accessed illegally streamed content in the past 12 months, an alarming four in ten (39%) have suffered financial losses after being targeted by criminals. The average amount stolen was £1,680 – more than half of the average monthly gross salary in the UK – while one in 10 (11%) people lost more than £7,500.

Countering these claims seems pointless for two key reasons. Firstly, victims of this type of fraud typically have no idea who was responsible. They can try to narrow things down, but it rarely amounts to much. It’s self-reported guesswork at best; 65% of respondents said they had “near misses with hacking attempts whilst watching content illegally online” but what a near miss is supposed to look like depends on what the respondent believes they saw.
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No fucking way 4 in 10 people who have accessed an illegal stream in the past 12 months have suffered a financial loss related to it. That's a psyop to try and make people scared to pirate.
 
Never Scored said:
No fucking way 4 in 10 people who have accessed an illegal stream in the past 12 months have suffered a financial loss related to it. That's a psyop to try and make people scared to pirate.
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That's why I quoted it, it's an openly retarded use of statistics.

I think the UK in particular has seen a lot of fear mongering over streaming piracy, because gotta have my footy, and do you have a loisence for that telly, mate?
 
analrapist said:
LOL I bought an old RK3229 Android TV box for $3 that can stream 1080p60 to an HDMI TV. I don't know why people still try using FireShit. Even so, there's no shortage of cheap streaming computers you can use to replace FireShit.
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To be honest, I still use Libelec on a Raspberry Pi connected to an FTP server full of pirated shit on my local network with a few addons form the Slyguy Repository because I like to use some of the free streaming services like Plex and Pluto TV for background noise. If is ain't broke, don't fix it.

I know people like the rag on the raspberry pis because there are so many cheaper options, but I bought my first one back in 2013 or 2014 —whenever the 1+ model B came out—, and out of the ten or so I've bought over the years, I've never had one break. I've used them as security cameras, retro gaming boxes, streaming boxes and home servers. They're just super fucking well made and durable. I've totally had a GT King break on me, though. Damn thing just wouldn't turn on one day.
 
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Never Scored said:
To be honest, I still use Libelec on a Raspberry Pi connected to an FTP server full of pirated shit on my local network with a few addons form the Slyguy Repository because I like to use some of the free streaming services like Plex and Pluto TV for background noise. If is ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Libreelec is great for that purpose, yeah. I'm more of a tinkerer so I tend to go with a more general-purpose Linux, but configuring those for these purposes takes... a lot more. I will never countersignal the venerable Raspberry Pi. My old 1B does a kingly job of managing my Octoprint, and my 4 has become my dad's jobber computer out at our off-grid farm. The Zero 2 W is insane value in today's context.
 
Hentai-Semitism said:
What's the point of using all those gizmos when you can just connect the TV to your computer? Can any of those Android or Linux based devices do something that a regular desktop PC can't?
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The media is all stored on my PC. The smaller devices are for streaming the media from my PC to the TV. I don't want to lug my PC out of the basement every time I'm putting on a movie for the kids upstairs. Sometimes I want to use my PC when someone else wants to watch something on TV. I have multiple TVs and it'd be a pain in the ass to have to go downstairs, get my pc, bring it upstairs. hook it up to the TV in my bedroom to watch something, then lug it back downstairs when I'm done.
 
Never Scored said:
No fucking way 4 in 10 people who have accessed an illegal stream in the past 12 months have suffered a financial loss related to it. That's a psyop to try and make people scared to pirate.
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i completely believe it if they're taking samples of brits without a tv license who have been caught pirating british tv streams without a vpn and literally asking them 'have you gotten scammed?" because at that point it's like filtering for morons four separate times

vanilla_pepsi_head said:
Tangential, but I partially blame the "retro game collector" autists artificially inflating the price of any and all ancient Nintendo games, consoles etc for chasing a fad and forever ruining the secondhand market hoarding games that the vast majority of them aren't even interested in playing. Seriously, up until 2004ish I used to fairly regularly hit the flea market and pick out a half dozen NES/SNES games I'd never played (or often even heard of) to blindly check out - if they sucked, no harm done,
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I dunno I had a dreamcast in this time period and it was actually kind of fighting tooth and nail to get people to not think i was doing something morally wrong even though the domestic distribution for the dreamcast had been gone for years and most game resellers stopped bothering carrying dreamcast stuff fairly quickly. I pretty much didn't know sega ever made 3d consoles when i got it but i figured out pretty quick you could burn games to CDs and i think multiple people called my mom to talk to her about it out of great concern
 
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big pauper said:
I dunno I had a dreamcast in this time period and it was actually kind of fighting tooth and nail to get people to not think i was doing something morally wrong even though the domestic distribution for the dreamcast had been gone for years and most game resellers stopped bothering carrying dreamcast stuff fairly quickly. I pretty much didn't know sega ever made 3d consoles when i got it but i figured out pretty quick you could burn games to CDs and i think multiple people called my mom to talk to her about it out of great concern
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What the fuck kind of faggots even think piracy is morally wrong? What a bunch of gaywads.
 
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