> They justify the obvious copyright violation by only letting you play games they have physical copies of, and not letting more people play concurrently than they have cartridges. This... doesn't really avoid the copyright issues, but they do it anyway.
We found this service before creating Start9, and considered using the same thing. We talked to a lawyer before, who advised us not to do it, and fallbacked on letting people upload games that they are able to according to their local regulation (usually, games they dumped themselves), and forbidding them to lend their accounts to their friends.
It's 100% legal, but unfortunately it's still hard for some users to understand why this limitation exists. What I would love to do would be to have kind of a deal with game publishers, but as a single man currently working on the project, I don't the time to contact these studios (especially since most of them have closed since the games have been released, or are under Nintendo's copybag, which won't be ever available to third-parties such as ourselves).
We found this service before creating Start9, and considered using the same thing. We talked to a lawyer before, who advised us not to do it, and fallbacked on letting people upload games that they are able to according to their local regulation (usually, games they dumped themselves), and forbidding them to lend their accounts to their friends.
It's 100% legal, but unfortunately it's still hard for some users to understand why this limitation exists. What I would love to do would be to have kind of a deal with game publishers, but as a single man currently working on the project, I don't the time to contact these studios (especially since most of them have closed since the games have been released, or are under Nintendo's copybag, which won't be ever available to third-parties such as ourselves).