TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 21 days agoThe official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassingwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-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 · 21 days agomessage-square7fedilink
minus-squareyoumaynotknow@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·21 days agoLMAO. Fuck Nintendo and the “do as I say not as I do” BS.
minus-squarepearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·21 days agoEmulation is perfectly legal if you own the game.
minus-squarepriapus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-220 days agoAnd yet Nintendo files bogus copyright claims against emulators.
minus-squarepearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·20 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.
LMAO. Fuck Nintendo and the “do as I say not as I do” BS.
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.