PlasticExistence
@PlasticExistence@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft's real problem was never PlayStation 1 week ago:
Consoles live and die by their exclusives. Xbox hasn’t had the draw that Sony and Nintendo have.
Gamepass is still a good deal, but I wouldn’t buy a console for it.
- Comment on Dimetrodon't call it a dinosaur. 1 week ago:
Your think I’m fucking around here!? Mark it zero!
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 1 week ago:
You’re okay by me!
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 1 week ago:
The Bleem case is a separate issue from creating a backup copy protected by DRM
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 2 weeks ago:
The law is all about those technicalities.
I don’t agree with any of that noise around the DMCA for the record. I feel like we effectively lost our right to archival copies.
On a PC, what you said about copying the DRM along with the data is largely true. It is possible sometimes to copy the DRM and reproduce the image with the DRM intact. It also might not be depending upon the copy protection mechanism. Commercial video DVDs used to employ tricks with the storage sector that made it almost impossible to properly copy by a standard computer disc drive. You could get around this with additional program like AnyDVD, but that was only available for sale outside the USA because of the fact that it allowed you to bypass DRM.
And like you said, the content can be encrypted. Decrypting it is, IIRC, considered bypassing DRM - at least in the USA.
Again, I don’t agree that this is how things should be, but the legality of emulation is complicated depending upon what we’re talking about emulating.
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 2 weeks ago:
I would be interested in that case if you find it. I spend a lot of time thinking about emulation and the surrounding stuff.
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 2 weeks ago:
The emulation itself is legal, assuming you’re not using any copyrighted code, BIOS, etc. to make work.
The backup copy of your game that you need can be made legally as well, but in the USA, if the source contains a form of DRM, then you cannot legally make a copy.
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 2 weeks ago:
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
In the USA, it is illegal to make a backup copy of any of your media when the original contains any form of DRM.
On any media where DRM wasn’t used, you’re okay to create a backup copy.
The law is different everywhere though.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
There’s no meaningful difference in the eyes of the law
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
You’re suggesting he kidnaps a minor?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Exceptionally bad advice
- Comment on I "found" this brick today on my walk home. I'ma keep it. Maybe put googlie eyes on it. Name it Brichard. 4 weeks ago:
I do not, but I’ve built fireplaces from brick. I can appreciate them more than your average person
- Comment on I "found" this brick today on my walk home. I'ma keep it. Maybe put googlie eyes on it. Name it Brichard. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on I "found" this brick today on my walk home. I'ma keep it. Maybe put googlie eyes on it. Name it Brichard. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 5 weeks ago:
You want all this from someone you say is highly suicidal. You understand that you would be setting yourself up for failure, don’t you?
If she’s not in a good place, then your relationship will suffer. You need to be realistic here.
- Comment on His name is Carcin and he loves toes 🤗 1 month ago:
He was delicious
- Comment on you are now witnessing the peak of online discourse 1 month ago:
Terrence and Philip?
- Comment on Doom the dark ages... 1 month ago:
Same reason I still haven’t played Black Myth Wukong
- Comment on Awooo 1 month ago:
He was delicious
- Comment on Rate my setup 1 month ago:
Pretty good, but needs more bean varieties
- Comment on godosaur 1 month ago:
Yoshi!!
- Comment on I only ordered one because it's "realistic" 2 months ago:
#SixSeasonsAndAMovie
- Comment on I only ordered one because it's "realistic" 2 months ago:
When did Dildopolis open a second location!?
- Comment on I only ordered one because it's "realistic" 2 months ago:
Did the seller promise discreet packaging or discrete packaging?
- Comment on Can I sue my apartment management company? 2 months ago:
Do your math again. 4/3 to 5/31 is less than 60 days.
But also you’ll want to go through the rental agreement and your local laws to see if they can force this on you. You may just default to a month-to-month, but you may not.
- Comment on Clothes company cannot "cancel" an order that hasn't shipped, must ship it and do a return. 2 months ago:
Thank you. It’s been three months, and although it hasn’t gotten much easier yet, I’ve been thinking about adopting another rescue. My last dog saved my life in multiple ways.
- Comment on Clothes company cannot "cancel" an order that hasn't shipped, must ship it and do a return. 2 months ago:
I’m sorry, friend. I lost my beloved dog on New Year’s unexpectedly. It’s the worst.
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 2 months ago:
And have it’s teeth whitened
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 2 months ago:
“A way out west there was this fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin’ parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that’s a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, like-wise. But then again, maybe that’s why I found the place s’durned innarestin’.”
- Comment on The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct Will Be 60 Minutes Long, Nintendo Confirms 2 months ago:
Exactly what I was thinking.
I wonder if there’s any chance Nintendo will remaster the other two Metroid Prime games before 4 launches
