As you read that entire letter, don’t you just smell that rotten stench of copyright overreach, in that Nintendo literally obsesses itself completely these days on the sheer worry of trying to stop ALL video game piracy as if it were the one and only sole thing it operates upon apparently at all — such of which includes their own little claim/talking point that ‘piracy’ continues to ‘result in lost sales, lost jobs, lost taxes for local, state and national governments, as well as the loss of incentives to create and innovate’... really, what’s their damned deal, huh!?
The reason why I say this quite unapologetically is because I most honestly think they just plain need to fucking stop screwing themselves and especially the customers around with that pathetically stupid ‘if we do not magically destroy all piracy at once, we’re totally fucked’ excuse and really, REALLY start embracing its countless millions of video game fans (including us!!) and open up rather more wholeheartedly in order to help better focus on increasing real-time sales without all the fuss about piracy taking away from them all the time indeed. In other words, Nintendo really needs to improve their own business model all the way to the current cutting-edge times of today instead of that old, dinosaur 20th century (1900-2000) thinking. This is 2013, part of our current, more modern new 21st century... and you know what we say about business models these days... either evolve successfully or perish horribly; there is no in-between. It is that simple. 
(I say this with my full-on heart ever-especially, because our own vitally all-important video/arcade game history, heritage, and significance over the many past decades right up to the present day and more, through emulation as one example, *truly* helps and inspires us all to seriously seek out our wondrous curiosities by leading us into seeking out and actually buying the original, OFFICIAL legal copies of the games that we enjoy, or as backups of the games we already own — including the ultra-rare stuff like Naxat Soft’s Recca on Famicom, too!! I am not sure how I am phrasing this, folks, but I am sure you will get the idea.
!! )And after Nintendo’s own way of forcefully binding us all up through the region-locking on their 3DS handheld system line since it was first released last year, and also after the way the company implanted the ever-crippled, worthless DRM (or so-called ‘Digital Rights Management’) on their current Wii-U console system line (which you can read all about in this TechDirt article right here, by the way!), and furthermore after their full support of SOPA last year, you can see where this is all going... yet another big-time fail for Nintendo, only this time it will completely backfire on them in their attempt to give the U.S. Government/USTR even greater powers around the world in taking over the internet where video games and emulation are concerned. They catastrophically blew it this time with their latest attempt now, I heavily predict.
By the way, in case any of you are wondering what that Special 301 list is about, you can read more info about it in this other TechDirt article right here, especially in order to find out why that report that the USTR puts out every year becomes more of a catastrophic joke indeed when it comes to copyright enforcement, being the draconian maximalists that they are to begin with along with those Hollywood lobbyists they support, too.
With all of that, please speak your thoughts on this latest new issue that is well-fitting for this “Off-Topic” category of our Shmups forumboard. Thanks so much for your input in advance.
