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After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal
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this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2025
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You don’t admit that something legal is legal. You’re the asshole that says "OK, maybe you’re right." I’m fed up with their crap, I’ll emulate everything from now on.
They set the stage that they never said otherwise, but circumventing piracy protections is somehow illegal…
Now the question arises, what counts as piracy protection? Is a nag enough? Can you be criminalised in clicking away a nag you dis not read?
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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.
Where is this defined?
At least in the DMCA I believe