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Fam here's the thing.
Do you know
why they go after the distributors? It's not because distributing ROMS is exponentially more illegal than owning illegal ROMS. Distribution makes it worse, yes, but you're right, they've got legal grounds to clap anyone with pirated games in irons if they really want to.
So why don't they?
Cause court is ****ing
expensive.
If you pirated a copy of Super Mario Odyssey right this second and somehow Nintendo would've gotten every last cent of the purchase price of a real physical copy that you now haven't bought (we'll get into the talk about how the pie's
actually split another day) they'd be out, on average, $60.
Their lawyer will charge them more than that for a
pee break.
Fact is, you ain't worth it fam. And that's actually great news! You ain't going to jail for that kinda **** ever, because it'd cost more to file the lawsuit than they actually lost. They just write that **** off at the end of the year.
The distributors are only worth it because by hitting them, Ninty
also hits everyone who would've gotten anything from them, meaning the effect is large enough to justify the cost of what
still usually amounts to a cease and desist letter.