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Nintendo To Take On Piracy In 3-D

Posted by Soulskill on from the dee-arrrrrr!-emm dept.

crimeandpunishment writes "Nintendo says when its new handheld game device with 3-D technology comes out, it will have beefed-up anti-piracy measures. For obvious reasons, the company is keeping tight-lipped on the specifics. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata says they're not only concerned about software piracy, but also a growing tolerance for it. He said, 'We fear a kind of thinking is become widespread that paying for software is meaningless.'"

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  1. Sounds like the next Summer blockbuster by Laser_iCE · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nintendo Takes On Pirates: IN 3D!

  2. Re:The trend on Nintendo Consoles by Jer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And interestingly enough, if the folks who are playing "Imagine Babysitter" and "Pony Lover DS" are paying customers and the folks who are playing "FFVI" or "Kid Icarus" are pirating it, that gives the company an incentive to produce more "Imagine Babysitter"-type games and fewer of the games pirates like. Especially if the games that people are paying for are cheaper to develop and produce than the games that pirates like.

  3. Re:Nail on the head by Theaetetus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    On the other hand, people who create useful/entertaining/valuable things should be compensated for it, if they so wish.

    No, there's no right to compensation for creation. The creator may set their work for sale, and I may choose to buy it, but that's it.

    And if you choose not to buy it, you should not be able to use it. The use and the compensation are thus linked.