What's the justification for using a copyrighted avatar without the permission of the copyright holder, considering everything you've said in this thread so far?
I'm not redistributing it or pretending its fine that I do so because nobody owns it or because its really old.
And thats really the level of discourse this topic is reaching now?
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So at what ends do devs benifit from you buying a 20 year old game second hand for 100 bucks?
Chrono trigger I can get right now in various ways from SE themselves, pirating the SNES version would be a huge dick move.
Pirating actual obtainable in print software is a dick move. People pirating shit that is long gone and none of the devs or pubs are selling anymore. Eh I honestly can't fault people wanting to see a bit of gaming history for less than an absurd amount of money.
Youtube these days does a good job of introducing people to older games they didnt even know existed and at an increasing rate due to how old gaming is now BEFORE THEY WERE BORN. I'm not gonna get mad at Timmy for downloading a copy of the ps1 version of Lunar 1 instead of shelling out for a ps1, ripping the bios from said ps1 or getting the tv hook ups needed to play old consoles on modern stuff, finding a working memory card yadda yadda.
Its not a question of "getting mad" - and yes, the poster who brought up Lufia 2 in the exact same post brought up Chrono Trigger as examples of games he felt its fine to download because reasons.
Its a question of respecting creators rights.
Nobody cares about orphan works, because they're orphan works.
Companies sitting on IP and doing nothign with it is annoying, but thats not a justification to just help yourself anyway. I find UPlay annoying, it doesn't mean I should just warez Assassins Creed instead.
Companies actively tending to their back catalogues should be lauded for doing so.
That is literally the opposite of the mentality exposed ITT, which is taking that
for granted.
