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Emulators per se are not illegal. Most likely.
If emulators in general were illegal, Nintendo would be in trouble too and would be obliged to remove the emulated games it sells on the Virtual Console.
It does not.
I 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.
How is an emulator different from things like libdvdcss? (videolan lib used to break DVD protection). Or is libdvdcss still illegal in the US? Because I feel it's the same, in both cases I want to be able to play things (movies or games) I legally acquired.
I wonder if there’s a “git over BitTorrent”. Having a cryptographically signed (by authors, not by GitHub) and fully open source git hosting network would be a boom for FOSS security in general.
Nintendo could have hired few of the yuzu devs and launched its own gamepass style service for PC and allow people to play games via emulation. People aren't using switch emulators only to pirate but because they actually perform better than the original console the games were developed for due to hardware limitations.
I pirate. And if I can't pirate, I won't play.
How is an emulator different from things like libdvdcss? (videolan lib used to break DVD protection). Or is libdvdcss still illegal in the US? Because I feel it's the same, in both cases I want to be able to play things (movies or games) I legally acquired.
Your use of libdvdcss is almost certainly illegal under US law though, as absurd and ridiculous as that is.
Yes, because Microsoft has the other side where they take everyone's code and then repurpose it as a "coding aid as a service" kind of thing (copilot) without attribution or even permission in the first place.
I wonder if there’s a “git over BitTorrent”. Having a cryptographically signed (by authors, not by GitHub) and fully open source git hosting network would be a boom for FOSS security in general.
Or we can simply have a git hoster which is not in the US and as such is not impacted by DCMA