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The Switch Will NEVER be the Same: Nintendo Switch Dumper Review (youtu.be)

submitted 10 months ago by realitista to c/nintendo

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[–] GlitterInfection 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I am mixed on what you're saying.

As everyone is saying, it doesn't matter if the primary purpose of this is piracy, because this enables legal behavior through the same process as the piracy. You cannot say that this is illegal because it is not piracy until you take the output of this and do something else with it.

But also it sucks that we have to discuss these things with false pretense to avoid Youtube content bans and stuff like that.

But that is the reality of the world we live in, and Nintendo DOES suck and IS an evil company when it comes to consumers rights.

For the record, I do not pirate anything presently. At a certain point in my life I decided that I could go without things or buy them. But I don't judge for people making the opposite choice.

[–] MufinMcFlufin 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I feel like devices like this aren't really under a false pretense though. Most people who would pirate games like this probably wouldn't buy a third party device so they can copy a friend's cartridge so they can emulate it, they'd more likely just download it and skip the middle man.

The only real way I see it being used primarily for piracy is in areas where Internet activity is heavily monitored/restricted, or broadband isn't available/accessible. Otherwise a 1 month subscription to a VPN and a few gigabyte of Internet usage is far cheaper and easier to a pirate.

[–] GlitterInfection 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Selling bootleg copies would still count as piracy, as would returning the game after copying it. But your point point makes sense. This device's main focus is probably not those cases.

But emulators are a thing that we usually stress the legal use-cases when the majority use-case is piracy. So it's kind of an area where pretense is required, and the earlier video reviewing the cartridge and this one reviewing the copying device both go out of their way to make it clear that they aren't talking about the piracy use-case and that they still think their video will be taken down.