On the contrary I'd say it has a lot to do with respect since Jim himself kept bringing that up as one of his points. In fact its at the pivotal moment when we know for sure he isn't being completely tongue-in-cheek that he is advocating for piracy of Nintendo's games. The very last part of the video (13:36) he saids "I simply do not respect Nintendo enough to non-sarcastically get the point across, that I do not condone that sort of thing (piracy)...because I don't respect them. They don't respect my rights I don't see why I should respect their rights...ever."Lightspeaker said:I do have to pick at one thing from the OP:
No its not. But equally that is absolutely not what Nintendo is doing. Its got absolutely nothing to do with mere respect and absolutely everything to do with Nintendo quite literally stealing a cut of his work. Jim's job involves producing these videos, writing articles, etc. It is how he makes his income. Some of those videos he does not monetise because he views the income from patreon as covering it. That is up to him. Regardless of whether those videos are monetised or not, however, Nintendo has absolutely no rights whatsoever to them and Jim's use of clips in those videos are covered under fair use laws.Story said:It's okay to steal because a company does not respect you?
TL;DR: Its got absolutely nothing to do with 'respect' and absolutely everything to do with theft of his work by ignoring fair use practices. Jim is pointing out the hypocrisy of them flagrantly stealing other people's work whilst getting angry about others stealing theirs.
So yeah, I'd like to know were I misinterpreted him somehow because I have a lot of respect for Jim but not if he is going to be this petty.
And also, and I can't stress this enough: Jim and other content creators are being abused by Nintendo protections of their IPs but Jim's general audience is not. He is justifying everyone who listens to pirate all of Nintendo's games not just him or those directly effected like him or just games that are out of print or whatever.
I also want to make it clear that this isn't about Nintendo this type of logic can be applied to every single company, every law, every single person ect. And in my opinion at least its destructive.