This is one of the worst, most immoral things about copyright law.
People say that violating Copyright laws is equal to stealing? It is not. And this is one of the worst example of why.
Importing and selling import games is practically illegal. And lots of measures are taken against it. This makes me bitter as a big fan of Asian games. There are times that I have almost wanted to boycott consoles and games in a way that I thought could bring and end to this, especially since there are games specific to regions.
You see, Region codes are stupid and immoral. They serve almost not purpose other than to look pointlessly fascist. Furthermore, companies have the audacity to try to put their copyright claims on arcade games and shutting down companies that sell import games.
This is worse than the used games fiasco current going on. This is treating people who just want to play games made in another country and never given the grace of localization, like criminals, like pirates.
Gaming companies can be stupid about so, very many things. Things that should not be violating of any law, is not anything like stealing, and they should not want to or be within their rights to do. You can't pirate, but you can't buy used, you can't share offline, you can't mod, you can't import, and if your father is a judge, you'll beat you if you download them. And not forgetting the age of DRM; Securom and endless codes and the like.
Does one ever get the feeling that game companies sometimes, just pointlessly hate their customers, no matter if they're Japanese, Korean, American, European, or Australian? I have to wonder what Nintendo thinks of me for having imported a Japanese Wii, 3DS, and even consoles like the Super Famicom, surely not good. Despite the fact I'm giving them money.'
It's like they want me to be bitter. It's like they want me, as an American, to fetishize European and Asian versions of games. Because as a product of this, that's what they feel like to me, some kind of esoteric, high quality forbidden treasure. Something special that doesn't belong in my hands and I should treat like mana from the heavens. This is helped to exist because of region locking, I don't get near as excited over a localized game than some import game in a foreign language. This isn't just Asiaphilia, because of things like this, I'd treat a German copy of Oblivion with much more value than an English version. Imported things are just precious, precious to me. And region codes don't help. At all.
Sorry, you can blame me of being an import fetishizing weirdo now. I just had to get this off my chest. I hate the feeling like I'm doing no better than pirating each time I import a game or movie or something.
Anyone else feel as frustrated as me about region codes? This is also a great time to rant about issues related to Project Rainfall, and that Nintendo has the sheer idiocy within them to not only ignore Project Rainfall, but to region lock their handheld, the Nintendo 3DS. What the fudge, Nintendo? What. The. Fudge. First Mother 3, then Project Rainfall, now this. Now I'm going to have to buy two versions of the 3DS to play all the games even half legally.
People say that violating Copyright laws is equal to stealing? It is not. And this is one of the worst example of why.
Importing and selling import games is practically illegal. And lots of measures are taken against it. This makes me bitter as a big fan of Asian games. There are times that I have almost wanted to boycott consoles and games in a way that I thought could bring and end to this, especially since there are games specific to regions.
You see, Region codes are stupid and immoral. They serve almost not purpose other than to look pointlessly fascist. Furthermore, companies have the audacity to try to put their copyright claims on arcade games and shutting down companies that sell import games.
This is worse than the used games fiasco current going on. This is treating people who just want to play games made in another country and never given the grace of localization, like criminals, like pirates.
Gaming companies can be stupid about so, very many things. Things that should not be violating of any law, is not anything like stealing, and they should not want to or be within their rights to do. You can't pirate, but you can't buy used, you can't share offline, you can't mod, you can't import, and if your father is a judge, you'll beat you if you download them. And not forgetting the age of DRM; Securom and endless codes and the like.
Does one ever get the feeling that game companies sometimes, just pointlessly hate their customers, no matter if they're Japanese, Korean, American, European, or Australian? I have to wonder what Nintendo thinks of me for having imported a Japanese Wii, 3DS, and even consoles like the Super Famicom, surely not good. Despite the fact I'm giving them money.'
It's like they want me to be bitter. It's like they want me, as an American, to fetishize European and Asian versions of games. Because as a product of this, that's what they feel like to me, some kind of esoteric, high quality forbidden treasure. Something special that doesn't belong in my hands and I should treat like mana from the heavens. This is helped to exist because of region locking, I don't get near as excited over a localized game than some import game in a foreign language. This isn't just Asiaphilia, because of things like this, I'd treat a German copy of Oblivion with much more value than an English version. Imported things are just precious, precious to me. And region codes don't help. At all.
Sorry, you can blame me of being an import fetishizing weirdo now. I just had to get this off my chest. I hate the feeling like I'm doing no better than pirating each time I import a game or movie or something.
Anyone else feel as frustrated as me about region codes? This is also a great time to rant about issues related to Project Rainfall, and that Nintendo has the sheer idiocy within them to not only ignore Project Rainfall, but to region lock their handheld, the Nintendo 3DS. What the fudge, Nintendo? What. The. Fudge. First Mother 3, then Project Rainfall, now this. Now I'm going to have to buy two versions of the 3DS to play all the games even half legally.
