TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 month agoThe official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassingwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-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 · 1 month agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squarepearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoEmulation is perfectly legal if you own the game.
minus-squarepriapus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoAnd yet Nintendo files bogus copyright claims against emulators.
minus-squarepearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 month 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-up1·1 month 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.
minus-squareMoonrise2473@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoWell the dev closed it without any public c&d… Maybe the thousands of copyrighted images of amiibos hosted on https://amiibo.ryujinx.org/ ?
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.
And ryujinx?
Well the dev closed it without any public c&d…
Maybe the thousands of copyrighted images of amiibos hosted on https://amiibo.ryujinx.org/ ?