Comment on Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to Ryujinx forks

• 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.

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  • 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.

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• Noite_Etion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yep. why? do you understand the only reason people get an emulator is to pirate roms?

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    • 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.

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    • 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.

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    • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To play games they own on other systems?

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      • SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You honestly believe people download emulators to play games they own already? That means they have the console still… Sooooo… Oh no you’re right. People buy tears of the kingdom and then buy a $1200 PC to run it instead of a switch. My bad. You’re totally right. Emulation is in no way linked to liracy whatsoever. Even I haven’t pirated 3 million games from all systems. In fact I purchased ALL of my games super legally just so I could emulate them 🫠

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    • 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.

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      • SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s vastly different. No one is buying a Nintendo game and then downloading ryujinx to play it since you don’t download Nintendo games on your PC.

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