The artificial scarcity idea is a dumb one and I don’t know why anyone believes it.

It’s built into the OS for security and robustness... I don’t think apps would be given those permissions in iOS... for damn good reason.

Speaking strictly as a guy who does computer security for a living, this is horrible advice. Your phone is much more likely to be physically stolen than to be exploited in this manner.

So... I should disable the loss/theft-prevention feature of my devices to prevent theft? Seems like a “Dummies Guide” solution, no?

Because this does nothing to hurt their image among 99.9999% of potential customers. Just a few entitled adult-children who don’t have any respect or understanding for intellectual property.

Nintendo has spent countless millions of dollars on developing and marketing their games and characters. This guy is using all of that to his advantage. Why not make “Super Original Character 64 Online” instead of using Nintendo’s characters? If the answer is “because nobody would have any nostalgia for it,” then you…

Like Adropofvenom already said, in this particular case the person involved used Nintendo’s code to benefit himself financially, even creating a Patreon account to let people give him money for a work that didn’t entirely belong to him (since this mod was done on a ROM of the original SM64, which is property of…

No, it’s because he was using their IP without permission. He had no legal right to do that, and they have every right to stop him. Whether he was profiting from it is irrelevant to the actual law. Him thinking it’s tied to Oddyssey’s impending release shows how little he understands IP law.

Super Mario 64 isn’t this guy’s intellectual property so, really, he has no business profitting off of it in whatever way shape or form, period.

I understand gamers are entitled and like to think that literally 100% of the industry exists SOLELY to pander to them but the reality is that business relationships are…

Why is “making money” in quotes? If he had a Patreon open for the mod, thats *literally and exactly what he was doing.*

Person uses Nintendo IP for profit (Patreon/Youtube), Nintendo protects their IP, fans complain as if Nintendo is the bad guys here. Rinse/Repeat.

Anything carrying their trademarked content would get shutdown I think.

This exactly. Thank you.

Except it was done really well.

This is the worst bullshit I have seen on the net in years. Tarkin was amazing in rogue one. Your average film goer had no idea he was cg. My wife only new the princess was faked because she knows fisher was at the time old. (Rip) Tarkin was (is) a fucking technical marvel and the closest that anyone has gotten to…

This CGI bashing is getting to Hobbit-levels of grating and old. Sorry but the amount of times I’ve seen people take cheap shots at what I consider to be really impressive CG that more than adequately helps fulfill the needs of the story was a tired old yard four years ago, let alone today. I mean yeah, it was…

It’s almost like Japan has decent fucking mobile infrastructure while the US and others are just crap.

Ah I see from that trailer that this is a game about rocks and colored lights. I cannot wait to color rocks with light and cards or something. I just hope it has full chat functions so everyone around me can let me know what a worthless virgin cuck I am like in the real DOTA.

It’s more watchable than Temple of Doom, which has sections I actively hate, but also more forgettable. Both are vastly inferior to Raiders and Last Crusade.