After shutting down several popular emulators over the years, Nintendo's top IP lawyer just admitted that emulators are legal.
  • saigot@lemmy.caEnglish
    454·
    vor 23 Stunden

    sounds great, until you read literally the next sentence:

    They run afoul of the law when they bypass encryption, recreate copyrighted programs, or point users to pirated material.

    aka you can emulate stuff, just not for anything remotely modern.

    • Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      8·
      vor 15 Stunden

      Ryujinx did none of that, which is why instead of taking it down, Nintendo just paid off the main developer to take it down.

      Yuzu generated keys programatically, which was the issue, and Nintendo took that down directly.

      So according to Nintendo’s actions, they think Ryujinx was perfectly legal.

    • Supervivens@lemmy.worldEnglish
      241·
      vor 22 Stunden

      How does it bypassing encryption suddenly make it illegal??? That’s like saying you legally own this lockbox and can take it home however if you open it using anything but our official key you are breaking the law.

    • Lucy :3@feddit.orgEnglish
      171·
      vor 21 Stunden

      Just because I’m legally not allowed to does not in the slightest mean that I can’t.