“It would be great if people had to buy more of the thing,” says guy who makes money selling the thing.

  • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    Japan. Nintendo got it passed into law years ago that game’s can’t be rented, because of supposed piracy concerns. But you can go to any video rental place and borrow all the music CDs you could want, because we all know how much more difficult it is to make mp3s from a CD than copy a game.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I heard that many things in Japan are extremely protective for companies. Apparently modding is also illegal, right? I was talking with my spouse about console modding and we discovered that