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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Leaving this here:

https://www.eurogamer.net/did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-and-sell-it-back-to-us

Nintendo has also committed piracy of their own software, by downloading a rom that a piracy group extracted and uploaded to the internet, so that Nintendo could then can re-sell the game back to us.

If Nintendo will sell me the old games I love, I'll happily rebuy them so long as there's no installed killswitch (sorry, "DRM") that will take it away from me one day.