Quote Originally Posted by Aussie2B View Post
Yeah, I definitely don't think fan translators should be getting compensated either, since what they're doing is illegal too. I just think, at a bare minimum, repro sellers should be asking fan translators if they mind their work being used in the repros, and if they say "we don't want anybody profiting off our work" (which I think more fan translators than not would say), then the repro sellers should respect that. Because, let's be real, nobody would be buying repros of untranslated text-heavy games. The repro sellers are making money on those kinds of games purely because a fan translation exists.
I think it's ridiculous repro sellers are even repro-ing stuff like Goonies 1. It's like a $5 (or it was last I was paying attention) import with little or no Japanese text but people feed the repro sellers because they just HAVE to have it on an *NES* cart.