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Back in the early Retromags days of old they didn't have a cut-off date and as I recall the Nintendo Power's were scanned and available but in pretty shoddy quality. Then they decided to put a cut-off date in and the issues got removed that violated the date rule. Subsequently they removed the crappy quality raw scanned versions and the rest is history. The current versions are way better anyway I think. I aren't all that interested in USA game mags so I haven't looked at them all that much so I may be wrong re quality of the currently hosted mags but I don't think so.

I didn't look at every single issue. But every issue I DID look at had a Retromags splash page at the end, so I'm pretty sure the bulk of them came from us. And the point is, NONE of our scans should have been uploaded there. Whether they were taken from a torrent is irrelevant. A Retromags scan is a Retromags scan. That's why the splash pages are there. There's no point splitting hairs about the details - the fact is that a site with a $10 million per year budget uploaded a bunch of Nintendo Powers (remember, they were uploaded by an Internet Archive employee, not some random user), which is going to look bad to a company like Nintendo which is notoriously protective of its IP, especially if there's money involved. The negative attention they received could have blown back on us as well (and indeed, our NP collection had to be removed from our site for a while as a cautionary measure and remains hidden from unregistered visitors to this day because of the mess the Internet Archive caused.) I don't think their actions are worth defending in the slightest.