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After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 7 months ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 39 points 7 months ago (4 children)

sounds 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.

[–] Supervivens@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Steve@communick.news 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

DMCA says bypassing encryption at all, to copy something, is illegal.

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago

DMCA needs to be repealed.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

Because the law says it is, so it's illegal.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io -3 points 7 months ago

09 F9

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 18 points 7 months ago

Just because I'm legally not allowed to does not in the slightest mean that I can't.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sure and then paying the dev not to develope it is also legal. Who wouldn't take it see that free program you are spending time on we well pay you not to do that.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago

Yes, but that doesn't set a legal precident for future emulator development.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

Or distributing the emulation.