Was there any good reason for Nintendo to send a takedown for AM2R, other than "muh intellectual property"...

Was there any good reason for Nintendo to send a takedown for AM2R, other than "muh intellectual property", which is bullshit considering they're doing their best to make everyone forget Metroid even exists?

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Since when do they need a better reason than somebody was doing something illegal?

>Good reason
No
>Reason
Yeah, "We can do it" and "They're making better games than us"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

is 'MUH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY" the only defense Nintendrones can come up with? holy shit it's pathetic. I see it everywhere.

think for yourselves you faggots

Why don't you check the archive instead of asking the same question that has been answered nearly daily for the past two fucking weeks you brainless mongoloid

What they were doing is not even remotely fair use.

Care to defend that position

Not him but. Stealing assets, not used for parody, exists to replace an existing for sale product (Metroid II on 3DS VC), damages interms of lost sales in the unlikely case Nintendo make their own Metroid II remake.

So if you roll through a stop sign, or turn right on red without coming to a complete stop, or exceed the speed limit, do you turn yourself in?

I literally just read the precedence

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>Another important fair use factor is whether your use deprives the copyright owner of income or undermines a new or potential market for the copyrighted work. Depriving a copyright owner of income is very likely to trigger a lawsuit. This is true even if you are not competing directly with the original work.
>For example, in one case an artist used a copyrighted photograph without permission as the basis for wood sculptures, copying all elements of the photo. The artist earned several hundred thousand dollars selling the sculptures. When the photographer sued, the artist claimed his sculptures were a fair use because the photographer would never have considered making sculptures. The court disagreed, stating that it did not matter whether the photographer had considered making sculptures; what mattered was that a potential market for sculptures of the photograph existed. (Rogers v. Koons, 960 F.2d 301 (2d Cir. 1992).)

of course not, but if they had cameras and it captured your license plate then you're fucked

nintendo caught wind of this shit so he got fucked

at least the game is still up and circulating, its not like nintendo cant do shit about it and most of the major glitches got fixed

>Koons

hehe

That's a terrible analogy, nobody turned themselves in. Nintendo went after them for breaking laws like a police officer might do for any of those things.

My point is, if merely doing something illegal is enough reason to take action, then you should take action against yourself for minor crimes. The fact that you don't implies that there's more going on than just "it's illegal."

Police officers make judgment calls about when to enforce laws. And anyway, it's a police officer's job to enforce the law, or if we want to back up a bit, the government has the role of enforcing the law and employs police officers to make it happen. And it takes on that role because it's generally believed that there's a public purpose to law enforcement. So why has Nintendo taken on the role of pointlessly attacking people for copyright violation?

>they're doing their best to make everyone forget Metroid even exists?
But Federation Force just came out and it's better than AM2R by a long shot. They're supporting the franchise, just not in the way you (read: whiny hipster faggots) would personally prefer.

I love how the actual people who actually did all of the hard work and made the game are gracefully accepting the situation and understanding Nintendo's position, while droves and droves of people who did nothing but wait for the project to gracefully drop in their lap for free feel all of the "rightful" indignation.

Damn, things went downhill for Michael Scott after The Office

Listen, it's very simple.
Yes, not everybody enforces every single rule 100% of the time. Some people are nice enough to willingly let it slide, and yes, this in some cases has benefits. This doesn't mean you get to deny others to enforce them just because you think you know better or because you really really want it.

Nintendo is built a certain way. If it makes you feel better you can go full patronizing and say they're behind the times and they "don't get the modern market", but what they're doing is perfectly reasonable and everybody should understand it by now. In fact the person who made AM2R himself came out and said
>Please, don't hate Nintendo for all of this. It's their legal obligation to protect their IP.
>Instead of sending hate mail, get the original M2 from the eShop.
>Show them that 2D adventure platformers are still a thing people want.
so if HE gets it, so should you.

It took potential sales away from Federation Force.

Fuck off, that's got nothing to do with it. How naive can you get?

Sure.

You're a company that resells digital copies of your old games on your current consoles. Someone takes one of those old games and remakes it, improving upon it in every possible way. That remake is being given away for free and is being written about on all the major gaming news sites. Why would anyone buy a digital copy of the original game, when they can get a bigger and better version for free? AM2R was a threat to sales of Metroid 2 on the virtual console, so Nintendo went after them.

Is it shitty and a dick move? Yes, but that's most likely their line of thinking.

(You)

me and the rest of the world? not saying that FF is a bad game, but its timing is dreadful, it's been 6 years from other m and 9 fom prime 3, and for the thirtieth anniversary they release a chibi looking spin off?

>in the unlikely case Nintendo make their own Metroid II remake

like, never ever. especially after the shitstorm surrounding AM2R.
I honestly don't get the argument of Metroid 2 being on virtual consolle. It's very likely the most ignored game in the franchise, everyone who gave a shit about it either owns it, already bought it, or emulated it. If anything having a good fan game around was free advertising and might have convinced someone to try the original out of curiosity.

why don't you pretend I give a shit about what you wrote?

that's very clever and polite from him, but really, being forced to buy an almost 30 years old game to let them understand what we've been asking for for years now is stupid. Sakamoto should just put his shit together and make another game. No spin off, no shitty hybrids like other m. It wouldn't be that hard to make another 2d game

>If anything having a good fan game around was free advertising and might have convinced someone to try the original out of curiosity

You're probably right. Playing AM2R made me want to go back and play through the original mainline series. I just happen to have the luxury of already owning them.