Pretty useless sale, you can only get it if "available nearby". So I guess if you don't have a local Best Buy you're SOL for this entire week of sales.
@dushness: The time limit was under the expectation that innovation was necessary to move culture, society and technology forward. I don't have a problem with copyright when it's reasonable.
No doubt you've noticed that the biggest money makers are almost exclusively basically ancient franchises, like with the Marvel movies in theaters that are still leaning on the same characters who were mostly created around or before WW2, and a lot of the stories are from that timeframe or the 80's or 90's.
Nintendo are just excessively litigious, that's why so many people online don't even touch their content, they're known to issue copyright strikes or just take the revenue from reviews of their games for merely having gameplay footage without audio.
But I'm sure you're just being cynical in that reply and only interested in backing corporate interests.
@dushness: Copyright law used to be dramatically shorter in duration to encourage content creation and to reduce cultural stagnation. Originally it was 14 years with the option to renew for another 14 years once if the author was still alive, so, it would've been completely harmless AND legal at that point.
It's only as long as it is now on account of Disney spending literally billions to prevent themselves losing their Copyright on Mickey Mouse like they did Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
It's very plausible that media is in such a rut now because of that change to copyright law. It's only been anywhere near as lengthy as it is now since the 70's and it's pretty easy to argue that that's roughly when cultural stagnation started in the western world in earnest.
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