- Sun Nov 09, 2014 2:36 pm
#40185
Much as I love the idea of the Super Mario vinyl (one is on the way here), it does remind me of the whole Akira thing.
On a forum where a decent percentage of participants - and a huge proportion of boards and threads - are record labels who spend a lot of time and money sourcing their personal holy grails for them to share with the rest of us, it must be a bit of a sod for someone else to come along and just bootleg it instead.
Nintendo licence their product to nobody. They haven't done for decades and they probably never will again. They certainly won't licence out their star franchise to a company in Germany with a crap "does this look Japanese enough?" name to release a few hundred copies. Like Akira, this will trickle out expensively for a while through reputable stores who seem happy enough to release pirated material at premium prices while others who will have been scratching at the doors of companies for years to try to get favourite material to officially release will decide there's no point in doing so and will either give up or join the pirates.
A very double-edged sword, and one that I've already admitted to dancing on the "a thing for me" edge. Maybe this sort of thing will wake up companies (especially Far-Eastern ones with desirable soundtrack rights and who made so much money from videogame and film soundtracks CDs in the 80s and 90s) to start seeking out legit labels before they just get yoinked anyway
On a forum where a decent percentage of participants - and a huge proportion of boards and threads - are record labels who spend a lot of time and money sourcing their personal holy grails for them to share with the rest of us, it must be a bit of a sod for someone else to come along and just bootleg it instead.
Nintendo licence their product to nobody. They haven't done for decades and they probably never will again. They certainly won't licence out their star franchise to a company in Germany with a crap "does this look Japanese enough?" name to release a few hundred copies. Like Akira, this will trickle out expensively for a while through reputable stores who seem happy enough to release pirated material at premium prices while others who will have been scratching at the doors of companies for years to try to get favourite material to officially release will decide there's no point in doing so and will either give up or join the pirates.
A very double-edged sword, and one that I've already admitted to dancing on the "a thing for me" edge. Maybe this sort of thing will wake up companies (especially Far-Eastern ones with desirable soundtrack rights and who made so much money from videogame and film soundtracks CDs in the 80s and 90s) to start seeking out legit labels before they just get yoinked anyway
