The Jimquisition: Why It's Morally Okay To Pirate All Of Nintendo's Games

I had already been interested in downloading emulators, but now I have.

Aron Marczylo

Amazing episode! Jim, since you're not interested in ad-revenue can you ditch Google/YouTube and publish your videos elsewhere like Vimeo or another service? Maybe maintain a minimum presence there so people know you're still around. I know it's a tough call but if anyone can make a stand against Google I reckon it's you. Love your work!

New background looks amazing.

Well, the point of capitalism is to kinda keep everyone dumb; to remain at the top? The main problem is that some companies don't want to get out of that capitalistic ways because of internal corporate structures. When in a whole room of people greedy for money (let's call them major shareholders; the people who rather see the world die in hunger, without lifting a finger to help them, even though they themselves can cure the hunger), what chance would they comply to, "Let's lower our profits a bit to allow wiggle room for our fans!"?

That's why I love you Jim, please have my baby^^ Keep it up! :)

erni

Damn Lee lol

Pretty much. And I am for non revenue generating "piracy" and with TOS's being everywhere not allowing you too watch a site since it downloads stuff to a un secured cache breaking the TOS since you are "downloading" it, if you look at the laws on the books everyone one of us is a criminal, its just up to the to decide who to go after. That said closed IP law makes us all dumb from information control but also makes us all criminals from the various laws they make. Copy right and closed IP law slow and stop the flow the information and the spread of science and technology. We need to move to an open system, take 30% of profit(yes profit) off anything over 20K a year in revenue(if its under 20K its not worth policing). To force things back under IP owner control when it hits a real global market at 5-10M in revenue then take 60% of revenue. This will shift IP ownership from large monolithic conglomerates who want more to medium sized organizations who have to compete with each other maintaining a healthy flow of revenue worldwide. You can break things down based on page hits and downloads/watches or simply units sold. You can also tax digital storage devices at 5% of sale price and internet service prices. this money would be used to ensure the system is fair and that lesser IP owners who are not unified or making a profit off their IP will be compensated for the impact they have on the over all flow of information and revenue generated from all IP. Caveat, trademarks would become information stamps telling you who and where a thing was made and this would be protected under law not the specific picture or word. the open IP system would also enforce official sounding terminology on the advertisement of knock off items to ensure that the IP owner and their direct IP can only lay claims to being first/original/official else all is fair in love and war, let a true free market decide the winners and losers not an artificial one controlled by a few large companies.. Tell me if I am begin to spamy and I will keep it to 1 or 2 pages...and yes I like to hear myself think...even if I can't understand it. LOL