Piracy fully supports the endeavor of archiving.

It supports it about as much rightwing fuckbois shouting “FREE SPEECH” every time they get in trouble fully supports the first amendment. It’s a dishonest shield by people who want free shit and have no intention of doing anything remotely like archiving/preserving. And as I’ve said before, I don’t care that they want it for free. I just don’t want to hear bullshit excuses.

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Again, there are many reasons I agree with. I just don’t like people behind preservation they aren’t actually doing. I am clearly pro-emulation. Half of my consoles are modded and all my computers have emulators, all of which are loaded with games I definitely purchased and backed up in adherence to all laws pertaining to this issue.

Reading it over again I am starting to agree with you more.

Read the article. The cornerstone of their argument is claiming yuzu facilitating/distributing a cracked TOTK before it came out.

Edit: I misread this, they are not accused of a crack

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Preservation is noble. Most pirates aren’t doing preservation. You know it, I know it, everyone in this thread knows it. They have a hard drive full of stuff they want to play/watch for free. That’s a far cry from following 3-2-1 protocol, let alone real archive standards. Hence “which they are not doing.”

Edit: it bears mentioning that I actually don’t begrudge people who pirate necessarily. I just don’t like it when they hide behind real reasons when they aren’t actually doing it for those reasons. It cheapens the endeavor and they’re just straight up lying. If you’re downloading stuff because you want to play for free - which can be because of a lack of access (financial or otherwise) or a myriad of other reasons (perhaps it’s a milestone work but you don’t want to support a piece of shit dev) - then just be honest. But the simple fact is we all know most people pirate because it’s easy and they don’t want to spend money. So let’s stop kidding ourselves when we all know this.

Very dumb of them to implicate themselves. Nintendo is ridiculous with this stuff but the yuzu team knew this.