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After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 17 hours ago by fne8w2ah to c/technology
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[–] DacoTaco 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Piracy protection is things like encryption, firmware checks, pairing systems, unique game identifiers per instance of game, unique console id's, ... Basically any system put in place to make, or identify, a game/console to be genuine or make sure a genuine game running on genuine hardware and nothing else.
These are all systems the switch had btw.
Switch emulation bypassed or faked all of those, which counts as piracy protection circumvention.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Where is this defined?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

At least in the DMCA I believe