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No RetroArch on Amazon App Store (also, please help us let Amazon know they should moderate their store)
🕑 Added 2017-08-11 17:11:15 +0000 UTC Read the tweet here -http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sq3qu7
Guys, we really need your support here.
If you could retweet this -
https://twitter.com/libretro/status/895685422134681600
we could be one big step towards putting a serious dent into this ongoing issue, which is doing nothing but harming the emulation scene and just increasingly tainting emulators in general. We need to start doing some self policing here if we don't want the games industry to be on a heads-on collision course with the emulation scene in the future.
Already articles like this are being made -
http://metro.co.uk/2017/08/05/the-truth-about-video-game-emulators-readers-feature-6830016/
And while that guy obviously talks out of his ass at various points during that 'reader feature' (and he is a reader so obviously he is not really speaking from any position of authority and doesn't seem to give any indication he knows much about the subject), you can see where this is all going really. The time for looking the other way and letting this all continue unabated is over, and the best chance we have at seriously stopping this blatant illegality is by getting big online storefronts (like Amazon) to start taking a much harsher stance on this.
Above all, if nothing else, Amazon should stop selling these boxes with '300/400+ SNES/PC Engine/GBA games'. It just needs to stop. They want to sit on their high horse and pretend they care about putting a stop to 'facilitating and profiting from piracy', yet they let shady entrepreneurs sell this obvious garbage while clearly looking the other way for years.
UPDATE:
We just received an update from Amazon on this.
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sq3rll?new_post=true
We find this to be a deliberate slap in the face considering how we are pretty much one of the few whom have never tried to facilitate piracy, we have never tried to openly monetize it, we have tried to do things fairly by the book.
Our app isn't even an emulator, it's a frontend to an API we made ourselves called the Libretro API. It literally exists for the purpose of running Libretro cores, a lot of which happen to be emulators. But in no way do you blame a tool for what you can do with it. A tool is a tool, it can be used for bad, it can be used for good.
We even decided to look the other way while Amazon still ALLOWS millions and millions of 'RetroArch ripoff' boxes to be sold on their own store. And then WE get it thrown in our face that we are 'illegal' and 'facilitating piracy' and they have the gall to sit on their high horse while dozens of unscrupulous entrepreneurs are making money off us right now with piracy boxes? It's absolutey shameful, gutting and disheartening.
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the_randomizer89
Amazon can suck itself sideways
