Nintendo is in an interesting position whereby they are actually selling emulators as a product to this day. Which gives them more of a leg to stand on in these sorts of efforts, regardless of whether or not I personally agree.
Sorry?
Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8k emulator-related DMCA takedowns
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#12Nintendo is in an interesting position whereby they are actually selling emulators as a product to this day. Which gives them more of a leg to stand on in these sorts of efforts, regardless of whether or not I personally agree.
I would say the opposite, it gives them less of a leg to stand since they cannot say that there's never any justification for emulation anymore like they said in the past.
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#13Nintendo is in an interesting position whereby they are actually selling emulators as a product to this day. Which gives them more of a leg to stand on in these sorts of efforts, regardless of whether or not I personally agree.
I would say the opposite, it gives them less of a leg to stand since they cannot say that there's never any justification for emulation anymore like they said in the past.
Usually the justification for emulation is "the company doesn't sell this product anymore, it's abandonware"
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#14Re: Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8k emulator-related DMCA takedowns
#15I thought this was going to be all Nintendo emulators, thankfully it is only yuzu (switch emulator) related.
They're DMCA'ing code they have no right to DMCA - it was released under a permissive OSS license. Sure they own the copyright but they also gave everyone a license to distribute it.
Adhering to these fraudulent DMCA requests endangers all of OSS.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would say the opposite, it gives them less of a leg to stand since they cannot say that there's never any justification for emulation anymore like they said in the past.
Usually the justification for emulation is "the company doesn't sell this product anymore, it's abandonware"
Emulation’s legal whether or not some of the software on a platform is abandonware (which doesn’t justify anything legally, anyway)
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#17Re: Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8k emulator-related DMCA takedowns
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would say the opposite, it gives them less of a leg to stand since they cannot say that there's never any justification for emulation anymore like they said in the past.
Usually the justification for emulation is "the company doesn't sell this product anymore, it's abandonware"
Nintendo historically took a harder stance than that basically saying that emulation destroys the player experience and even copying your own games isn't legal.
Seems like emulation is only fine if they make money out of it.
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#19Re: Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8k emulator-related DMCA takedowns
#20I thought this was going to be all Nintendo emulators, thankfully it is only yuzu (switch emulator) related.
They're DMCA'ing code they have no right to DMCA - it was released under a permissive OSS license. Sure they own the copyright but they also gave everyone a license to distribute it. Adhering to these fraudulent DMCA requests endangers all of OSS.
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