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Nintendo Makes It Clear that Piracy Is the Only Way to Preserve Video Game History

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By shutting down the Wii Store Channel and not letting users download old games, Nintendo is once again showing that in the modern digital era, you don't actually own the things you buy.

Site iconMotherboard — Jan 29, 2019 at 11:51 AM

This isn’t a new problem, but the Wii Shop closure shines perhaps the brightest light yet on how anti-preservation many digital storefronts are.

Tags: Shared Link, TOPIC: Consumer Experience, TOPIC: Preservation

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