Comment on Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to Ryujinx forks
heavydust@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoYou have no issue with a company trying to prevent people doing something legal? Is it only for emulation? Stopping emulation is the illegal part.
Comment on Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to Ryujinx forks
heavydust@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoYou have no issue with a company trying to prevent people doing something legal? Is it only for emulation? Stopping emulation is the illegal part.
SolidShake@lemmy.world 2 months ago
how is pirating games legal?
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Emulation isn’t piracy and you’re allowed to back up physical games you own. That’s legally your right.
CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Technically, you’re allowed to make copies for personal use unless doing so requires bypassing DRM, encryption, or some other lockout mechanism.
Emulation is still not piracy and neither is making a personal backup, but if making that backup requires anything more than a standard disc drive or a cart reader then it is a DMCA violation.
Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
SolidShake@lemmy.world 2 months ago
yep. why? do you understand the only reason people get an emulator is to pirate roms?
Mistic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Emulation itself doesn’t constitute piracy.
Now, it does facilitate it because all you need is a ROM from any source.
But saying emulators should be prosecuted would be the same as arguing that Steam’s Proton should be banned because you can launch pirated games through it.
heavydust@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
If that’s the limit of your knowledge, I can help you. Read more on the subject maybe.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
To play games they own on other systems?
P1nkman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So if I want to run some of my old games from before 2000, I need to run a Windows 98 or XP computer, because you think emulators should be illegal? I’m not going to install windows 98 on an actual computer, I emulate it so I can run the games I legally own.