MOTHER 2 (Earthbound) on Japanese Virtual Console March 20th

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Am I really being lectured about copyright law by the guy selling NES and SNES reproduction cartridges on his web site?

Yup, point?

I don't think this makes him the perfect person to ask about copyright laws:

"I know there are mixed feelings about reproduction carts, and if it's not your thing, then I hope you won't hold our decision to offer such things against us."

Of course you're assuming that my quoted comment has ANYTHING to do with the legality regarding repro carts.

How a person personally feels about a law and how they abide by it are two different things. I have to assume that if his business is made around what is basically custom bootlegging and he's getting away with it, either he knows something we don't or the law just hasn't caught up with him yet.

You see this all the time working small conventions, a big portion of any given dealers room is going to be people who printed out or otherwise burned their stock in their living rooms and you're basically paying for the pretty packing.

And in this case, the time and effort that goes into building the carts, designing labels/packaging, building packaging, etc.