Because they want to keep it till the very last moment just in case they can make money with a remake or something, even if it crumbles to dust and gets lost forever. What I really want to ask is why does the law enable this?
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animist@lemmy.one 1 year ago
No idea why those who own the IP don’t just either open source them or release them into the public domain
TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 1 year ago
Unaware7013@kbin.social 1 year ago
Because copyright makes rights holders lots of money, money they use to bribe politicians to keep extending copyright.
realcaseyrollins 1 year ago
Well, because they don't gain anything by that.
What surprises me is that they don't make their own official emulators and sell those tho
MattTheProgrammer@kbin.social 1 year ago
Because licensing is complicated and likely they are not the sole owners of all technology involved in doing so and there's no perceived benefit for them to do that unless they feel like they can make money on it somehow.
Flaky_Fish69@kbin.social 1 year ago
I mean selling emulators or something is a way to make money.
I'd buy a gameboy repo in a heart beat. Or, maybe something with an SD card/chip that ran the roms; and if it came from nintendo, chances are pretty solid it'd acutally work 90% of the time.