alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 days agoAfter shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legalwww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1236arrow-down16cross-posted to: games@sh.itjust.workstechnology@lemmy.worldgames@lemmy.worldgaming@beehaw.orgfrance@lemmit.onlinetechnology@lemmit.online
arrow-up1230arrow-down1external-linkAfter shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legalwww.androidauthority.comalessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square30fedilinkcross-posted to: games@sh.itjust.workstechnology@lemmy.worldgames@lemmy.worldgaming@beehaw.orgfrance@lemmit.onlinetechnology@lemmit.online
minus-squaresaigot@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44arrow-down4·2 days 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-squareSupervivens@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down1·2 days 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-up21arrow-down3·edit-22 days agoDMCA says bypassing encryption at all, to copy something, is illegal.
minus-squareRefurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-22 days 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-up18arrow-down1·2 days agoJust because I’m legally not allowed to does not in the slightest mean that I can’t.
minus-squarePunnyName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·2 days agoOr distributing the emulation.
sounds great, until you read literally the next sentence:
aka you can emulate stuff, just not for anything remotely modern.
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
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.
Or distributing the emulation.