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    Facebook is advertising video game piracy, have standards really sunk so low?

    To the people saying that the ads are tailored for you based on your web history, that is correct. I often go to gaming sites and talk about gaming on facebook, but obviously not ones about piracy, so I'd imagine that most people who frequently go to gaming sites would see these piracy ads...
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    Facebook is advertising video game piracy, have standards really sunk so low?

    I guess that is the case for abandonware (software that the companies no longer provide), but that is not the situation for many of the most popular ROMs (and particularly the ones that they are advertising). Nintendo's online store still sells many of the popular NES,SNES,N64 games and Square...
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    Facebook is advertising video game piracy, have standards really sunk so low?

    Thank you for the welcome, I have been here before, but forgot what my account was because I rarely post. I understand that the morality debate on piracy is probably never going to be over, however from a strictly legal standpoint, copyright infringement is illegal. The 'low standards' was...
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    Facebook is advertising video game piracy, have standards really sunk so low?

    The length of copyright is a lot longer than that, games from the NES/SNES era would still be under copyright. I highly doubt that these games (specifically, but not limited to, the ones advertised) would be made freely available under legitimate deals considering that many companies are now...
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    Facebook is advertising video game piracy, have standards really sunk so low?

    I was browsing facebook earlier today when I noticed some ads on the sidebar that were explicitly telling me to go to a website to pirate video games. Picture Proof: Zelda: OOT - http://i.imgur.com/7VBwU.png Zelda: MM - http://i.imgur.com/le2KW.png Final Fantasy VII -...