Individual customers of Nintendo are not government and the rights the government protects only applies to the government. A consumer is free to demand anything they feel like telling Nintendo and its upto Nintendo if they feel like listening and inversely it is upto the consumer if they are willing to buy.

Self-censorship is still a type of censorship and your brain is doing very large mental gymnastics to try and ensure it has the wrong definition.

This is boarder on absurdity. No one is saying its not Nintendo’s right to censor their own games or that their free speech should be restricted.

Wow this is not the correct definition of censorship. (Pay close attention to the OR term which means any of the options not all of them are free speech)

This is not the correct use of XKCD’s comic.

Advanced nanotech = biology, sub-molecular atomic manipulation = biology been doing that for long time, AI-assisted engineering = make GMO AIs, ...

To be fair it is unlikely reality itself allows FTL travel so there is that. Rule of cool doesn’t apply to physical reality. Maybe scientists can be persuaded by the rule of cool to research a subject but that doesn’t mean it is physically possible.

They actually don’t have to warp into earth any warping at all is likely to irradiate the planet with beyond survivable amounts of extremely energetic radiation. Slamming into space dust at beyond the speed of light or compressing/warping/punching holes into space tends to cause bad things to happen especially since…

Any from of practical FTL travel is very likely to be incompatible with reality itself not just life. The bonus of this assumption is in a few lifetimes we will probably know the answer as physical laws like to kill sci-fi ideas with great regularity and is why there is this thing called Hollywood physics, the rule of…

I don’t really think so as no matter what we as humans think physical reality isn’t something that can be changed and if it just turns out that its actually proven to be just physically impossible then it is physically impossible.

I’m sorry but I’m sensing a lot of BS in your long post.

Yup. There is nothing inherently wrong with it just companies obviously don’t like consumers benefiting from regional pricing or re-sold free keys. It is all about choice.

A gray market seller like most gray markets resells products outside official channels. This usually means in the context of games that the game key is from another country or is a promotional key someone is reselling. Some keys may be stolen or illegal on the gray market and just like the real physical gray market…

They can see graymarket redemption and they know they are lost sales as I have a legit copy and send the call home data but are not a first party customer nor will the key be associated with the original email it was given to. It isn’t like the graymarket keys are completely unmonitored or offline. You still have to…

If you think about it the internet is a very good place for information to be lost over time due to changing standards, software, companies disappearing... (I even was affected when gmail managed to completely lose a small fraction of user emails which included my entire gmail inbox luckily I back up my cloud…

Not really paying customers benefit even if no one downloads the cracked version because its mere existence removes the intrusive DRM from their legal copy. So even if you don’t download the illegal copy you benefit from the cracking activity indirectly.

There are security concerns running any Denuvo protected game they have a black box anti-tamper protection system which prevents anti-virus analysis. They also have an online update system that can patch that black box which opens a security blindspot.

Also if you own the game and wanted to use it in a prohibited software/hardware configuration cracking the game for those reasons is perfectly fine by my standards and even if “illegal” you own a legal copy and should be able to use it as you desire.

I have the same problem of too many games except I have too many legal games to play which is why I don’t care about their DRM inclusion because I just don’t buy games with intrusive DRM. So if a developer keeps using it I could care less if they die.

1) Only support developers who are DRM free at launch for the game. CD projekt Red was once a DRM (intrusive at that) but they heard the customer complaints and now run a DRM-free market (GoG) and their games launch with no DRM bloat.