You are asking yourself that because the copyright propaganda works.
If a game is not sold anymore in any legal store, the copyright protection that makes piracy illegal should decay. If I can't legally puy a game anymore, why can't I have it from other sources?
Instead, we have this. A company removes a game from the market and you can't play it anymore.
What we should be asking is why should that handheld be illegal to sell at all?
@stefan@gardenstate.social Does it include the games, or did you have to add them? The hardware patents are such that clone consoles are totally legal. It's the software that gets dicey.
If this is an Anbernic handheld (which I am pretty sure it is) they already include a considerable amount of ROMs... But most of them are not worth dealing with as they often come broken lol.
@egoldblatt@gardenstate.social yeah lots of roms loaded up. Though less then all the YouTube videos from months ago. Surprised Amazon lets this much copywrite infringement on their store.
@stefan@gardenstate.social They don't control it anymore, and call it a marketplace instead. They also have a lot of stuff that's toxic or radioactive, as well as some painfully obvious scams.
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AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
You are asking yourself that because the copyright propaganda works.
If a game is not sold anymore in any legal store, the copyright protection that makes piracy illegal should decay. If I can't legally puy a game anymore, why can't I have it from other sources?
Instead, we have this. A company removes a game from the market and you can't play it anymore.
What we should be asking is why should that handheld be illegal to sell at all?
shlee@aus.social · 4 pts · 1y
@stefan@gardenstate.social it’s not crime, it’s archiving
egoldblatt@gardenstate.social · 1 pts · 1y
@stefan@gardenstate.social Does it include the games, or did you have to add them? The hardware patents are such that clone consoles are totally legal. It's the software that gets dicey.
kratoz29@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
If this is an Anbernic handheld (which I am pretty sure it is) they already include a considerable amount of ROMs... But most of them are not worth dealing with as they often come broken lol.
stefan@gardenstate.social · 1 pts · 1y
@egoldblatt@gardenstate.social yeah lots of roms loaded up. Though less then all the YouTube videos from months ago. Surprised Amazon lets this much copywrite infringement on their store.
egoldblatt@gardenstate.social · 2 pts · 1y
@stefan@gardenstate.social They don't control it anymore, and call it a marketplace instead. They also have a lot of stuff that's toxic or radioactive, as well as some painfully obvious scams.
kratoz29@lemm.ee · 0 pts · 1y
China.
The only bad thing these dudes do is to sell it with games included.
They do not do a favor to anyone as they boost their sales of counterfeit SD cards and the low quality ROMs.