Comment on Nintendo sues a streamer for streaming ten games before their release
fern@lemmy.autism.place 1 month agokeep in mind that it’s people like him who make corporations condemn the technology instead of the users of the technology
Hard disagree. Corporations get to make their own rules, and this person is a scapegoat. They’ve been attacking emulators for a long time.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 month ago
While it’s true that they’ve been attacking emulators for a long time, they haven’t been able to do too much about them because of Sony v Bleem.
Modern emulators exist in a legal gray area, though, and might be violating the DMCA. The more of these assholes that pop up and get sued, the higher the likelihood that one of them refuses to settle, gets steamrolled by Nintendo, and gives them and every other console manufacturer the legal precedent that emulators are piracy/DRM-circumvention tools.
KingRandomGuy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sony v Connectix is the actual case that set the precedent for emulation, not Bleem. The Bleem case decided whether or not the use of screenshots of copyrighted games to advertise their emulator was legal. I believe it just deferred to the Connectix case for the legality of the emulator.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Thanks for the correction. I sometimes get those two mixed up in my memory, and it’s a really stupid problem that I need to fix.