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Re: Smash Comp The Big House Cancelled After Cease And Desist From Nintendo

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This C&D is so incredibly touchy, it's unreal. You cannot deny that, at a baseline, Nintendo has every right to C&D this event, but also at the same time you'd think that if they would do it for a tournament they would do it for Project Slippi itself, correct? Well, from my understanding of emulators and the law it seems that since Slippi is just a frontend and modification for Dolphin, Slippi itself is, in a way, protected by the law since there have been multiple court cases in the past involving emulators where the court sided with the emulator authors and not the console manufacturer (it's exactly the reason why Yuzu hasn't been shut down despite it being an emulator for a commercially relevant console).

What I'm trying to get at is that since Slippi development has a very low chance at being shutdown due to previous court precedent, The Big House Online being shuttered due to the usage of Slippi could very possibly have been something that Nintendo doesn't have the right to do. They're also basically saying that the C&D was sent to Juggleguy and the rest of the TOs due to the requirement of having to pirate a Melee ISO in order to enter, but as many people know, at least in the US, it isn't piracy if the copy that you're using was copied from your own physical copy of the game that you own, so how can Nintendo prove that every single entrant pirated Melee in order to use Slippi? The answer is of course they can't, but Nintendo has had a history of believing that all digital copies of their physical games are illegal, so this is them holding firm in that belief, whether it is right or wrong in the definition of the law they obviously don't care.

Another obvious inconsistency about all of this that you would know if you follow competitive Melee is that there is a Melee netplay tournament happening right now from today until Sunday, run by a production company called Beyond the Summit, called Smash Summit 10 Online. Again, if Nintendo would C&D Big House why the heck would they not C&D Summit? I think the answer lies in the fact that all Big House events held since Smash Wii U came out (that's the fifth Big House held in 2015) have been sponsored by / partnered with Nintendo, while Beyond the Summit has never directly been involved with Nintendo for an event (they did provide the stream for Big House 9 last year for example but did not organize the event). Nintendo probably feels that since Big House has represented Nintendo in the past that people would assume that Nintendo supports Slippi, which they obviously would never do. It is stupid that they're basically allowing one tournament to run while shutting another, but from my understanding that's probably why they went after Big House and not Summit.

whew that was a lot of typing for a game i personally don't like playing but love to spectate, i hope this all makes sense (tbf it is close to 2am where I'm from so my apologies if this doesn't lol)

@Crockin and I don't care for people who hate other people just because they like a particular video game a lot, just let people like what they like man

Re: Pokémon GO Is Allegedly Abusing Its Android Storage Read Permissions To Combat Rooting

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I had to stop playing GO for about a year and a half because I had rooted my phone so that I could delete system apps and move apps to an SD card (my phone had like 8GB of storage and Android takes up half of that). I've since gotten a new phone with more storage so I've been able to play the game again more recently. Considering all the hacking that was going on at the time I could understand why they started to ban rooted phones, but going this far is not okay.