alessandro to PC GamingEnglish · 10 hours agoAfter shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legalwww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1158arrow-down13cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
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minus-squaresaigotlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37arrow-down3·10 hours agosounds great, until you read literally the next sentence: They run afoul of the law when they bypass encryption, recreate copyrighted programs, or point users to pirated material. aka you can emulate stuff, just not for anything remotely modern.
minus-squareRefurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 hour agoRyujinx did none of that, which is why instead of taking it down, Nintendo just paid off the main developer to take it down. Yuzu generated keys programatically, which was the issue, and Nintendo took that down directly. So according to Nintendo’s actions, they think Ryujinx was perfectly legal.
minus-squareLucy :3@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·8 hours agoJust because I’m legally not allowed to does not in the slightest mean that I can’t.
minus-squareSupervivens@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·9 hours agoHow does it bypassing encryption suddenly make it illegal??? That’s like saying you legally own this lockbox and can take it home however if you open it using anything but our official key you are breaking the law.
minus-squareSteve@communick.newslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down3·edit-29 hours agoDMCA says bypassing encryption at all, to copy something, is illegal.
minus-squarePunnyName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·9 hours agoOr distributing the emulation.
sounds great, until you read literally the next sentence:
aka you can emulate stuff, just not for anything remotely modern.
Ryujinx did none of that, which is why instead of taking it down, Nintendo just paid off the main developer to take it down.
Yuzu generated keys programatically, which was the issue, and Nintendo took that down directly.
So according to Nintendo’s actions, they think Ryujinx was perfectly legal.
Just because I’m legally not allowed to does not in the slightest mean that I can’t.
How does it bypassing encryption suddenly make it illegal??? That’s like saying you legally own this lockbox and can take it home however if you open it using anything but our official key you are breaking the law.
DMCA says bypassing encryption at all, to copy something, is illegal.
DMCA needs to be repealed.
09 F9
Or distributing the emulation.