Comment by musicale

> We kept playing a cat and mouse game with the manufacturer to keep the platform open, only to see our efforts primarily used by people who just wanted to steal other people’s work, and very loudly felt entitled to it

#2 is the cause of #1.

Running commercial games for free has always been the killer application for jailbreaks/custom firmware for game systems. And game system emulators, for that matter.

It's sort of a perfect storm of gaming enthusiasts (particularly those with more free time than money) who want to run commercial games for free vs. companies like Nintendo who have an affinity for (overly) vigorous copyright and trademark enforcement, with jailbreak/custom firmware and emulator developers caught in the crossfire.