Perhaps because you don't *need* google's marketplace to load a program on your phone? If google yanks your app, you can still sell it to people. Unlike with apple, where if they yank your app, you can only sell it to people with jailbroken phones, which is a tiny tiny minority.
Apple should have every right to list or not list whatever they want in their store, because it's their store. The problem only comes about because their store is the "only" way to get programs onto the phone.
I checked the book for Mario Paint and the SNES Mario Kart; I didn't see anything obvious one way or the other on this topic. However, systems more recent than that (N64, gamecube and wii) definitely DO have something to say. It actually says the exact opposite of what you suggest:
"Copying of any Nintendo game is illegal and is strictly prohibited by domestic and international intellectual property laws. "Back-up" or "archival" copies are not authorized and are not necessary to protect your software. Violators will be prosecuted." -Inside front cover of Smash Brothers: Brawl for wii.
They actually manage to make the message even more infuriating by telling outright lies. (Not necessary? Are they seriously implying that their disks can't ever be scratched by anything? Or that an N64 cart can't be killed by ESD?)
So, while they may have once been cool about it, at some point they decided that being jerks was the way to go. It's been this way since N64, so I'm sure the DS games say the same thing.
Note: I looked in the book for Mario Kart 64, and found this exact message there, too. It's possible that third party titles don't have a message this ridiculous. I remember it being in the gamecube manuals, too, but don't have one at hand to check for sure.
Can they do anything about this one? I'll be interested to see if they try suing deja and related sites. Or perhaps they go after individual USENET servers. This person probably just created a major headache for quite a number of people. On a side note, are those mp3's songs? I'd like to hear any source code sung. Would you sing all the lexemes? "Curly brace, if, lparen foo, rparen semicolon"
Now, let's at least be fair. I ran NT4 for a month without rebooting. Of course, the os was really struggling by that point. Fullscreen apps were not restoring the resolution, the mouse had been reset and slowed down, one cd-rom drive was gone, and the zip drive wouldn't read, write, or eject, but it was still running. The cd-rom came back on reboot, I can't imagine what could have caused that. Win2k, however, has yet to show me more than 9 days of uptime without either a BSOD or something else requiring a reboot. They should have realized that win9x and NT were seperate for a reason, but oh well.
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Perhaps because you don't *need* google's marketplace to load a program on your phone? If google yanks your app, you can still sell it to people. Unlike with apple, where if they yank your app, you can only sell it to people with jailbroken phones, which is a tiny tiny minority.
Apple should have every right to list or not list whatever they want in their store, because it's their store. The problem only comes about because their store is the "only" way to get programs onto the phone.
I checked the book for Mario Paint and the SNES Mario Kart; I didn't see anything obvious one way or the other on this topic. However, systems more recent than that (N64, gamecube and wii) definitely DO have something to say. It actually says the exact opposite of what you suggest:
"Copying of any Nintendo game is illegal and is strictly prohibited by domestic and international intellectual property laws. "Back-up" or "archival" copies are not authorized and are not necessary to protect your software. Violators will be prosecuted."
-Inside front cover of Smash Brothers: Brawl for wii.
They actually manage to make the message even more infuriating by telling outright lies. (Not necessary? Are they seriously implying that their disks can't ever be scratched by anything? Or that an N64 cart can't be killed by ESD?)
So, while they may have once been cool about it, at some point they decided that being jerks was the way to go. It's been this way since N64, so I'm sure the DS games say the same thing.
Note: I looked in the book for Mario Kart 64, and found this exact message there, too. It's possible that third party titles don't have a message this ridiculous. I remember it being in the gamecube manuals, too, but don't have one at hand to check for sure.
Can they do anything about this one? I'll be interested to see if they try suing deja and related sites. Or perhaps they go after individual USENET servers. This person probably just created a major headache for quite a number of people. On a side note, are those mp3's songs? I'd like to hear any source code sung. Would you sing all the lexemes? "Curly brace, if, lparen foo, rparen semicolon"
Now, let's at least be fair. I ran NT4 for a month without rebooting. Of course, the os was really struggling by that point. Fullscreen apps were not restoring the resolution, the mouse had been reset and slowed down, one cd-rom drive was gone, and the zip drive wouldn't read, write, or eject, but it was still running. The cd-rom came back on reboot, I can't imagine what could have caused that. Win2k, however, has yet to show me more than 9 days of uptime without either a BSOD or something else requiring a reboot. They should have realized that win9x and NT were seperate for a reason, but oh well.