TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 22 days agoThe official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassingwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassingwww.pcgamer.comTheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 22 days agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squarepearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·21 days agoEmulation is perfectly legal if you own the game.
minus-squarepriapus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-221 days agoAnd yet Nintendo files bogus copyright claims against emulators.
minus-squarepearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·21 days agoThey’re not bogus. The emulator that shut down were selling a product using a proprietary encryption key owned by Nintendo. That’s why Dolphin still exists.
minus-squarecatsup@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·20 days ago Proprietary encryption key What if the key was in a book? It would have to be protected by free-speech, which makes it uncensorable. What if the key contents were used as hex values to make a flag? Would you censor a flag too? No such thing as “proprietary encryption keys” exist.
Emulation is perfectly legal if you own the game.
And yet Nintendo files bogus copyright claims against emulators.
They’re not bogus. The emulator that shut down were selling a product using a proprietary encryption key owned by Nintendo.
That’s why Dolphin still exists.
What if the key was in a book? It would have to be protected by free-speech, which makes it uncensorable.
What if the key contents were used as hex values to make a flag? Would you censor a flag too?
No such thing as “proprietary encryption keys” exist.