Nintendo's Legal Hitlist Grows
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Nintendo's Legal Hitlist Grows
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#2The main subject of the article seems to have come to an amicable agreement with Nintendo, but for all of the “copyright infringement enabling tools” that do get forcibly taken down, the way to avoid that just seems so obvious to me. The emulators, or DRM bypassing tools, or whatever, all seem to get tripped up by the marketing. Releasing emulators or DRM cracks is protected speech and not a copyright violation, but releasing the same tool and saying “this is a tool for enabling copyright violation, here’s how you use it to commit copyright violations” just makes you a party to the subsequent copyright violations that it might be used for. I’m paraphrasing, but that’s basically how a lot of them get taken down. Just releasing your tools without all the legally dubious explanation seems to be such an obvious risk avoidance strategy.
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#3[dupe]
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41711709
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#4The main subject of the article seems to have come to an amicable agreement with Nintendo, but for all of the “copyright infringement enabling tools” that do get forcibly taken down, the way to avoid that just seems so obvious to me. The emulators, or DRM bypassing tools, or whatever, all seem to get tripped up by the marketing. Releasing emulators or DRM cracks is protected speech and not a copyright violation, but…
Did he though? What if the kind offer he got was along the lines of "please delete all of your stuff tomorrow and we won't destroy your life? Thanks".
It doesn't say what the agreement was, but I can tell you from experience that the prospect of being legally steamrolled is not pleasant.
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#5Related:
Nintendo isn't just attacking emulators [video]
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#6The article implies that the emulator project lead may have received some sort of monetary compensation from Nintendo as part of the agreement. It would be interesting to verify that, because it feels like something quite new if they tried that tactic and it worked.
The article also implies that emulator projects are legal, but given that modern systems likely use encryption as part of their privacy prevention process, I'm not so sure about that anymore (see the DeCSS fiasco).
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#7The article implies that the emulator project lead may have received some sort of monetary compensation from Nintendo as part of the agreement. It would be interesting to verify that, because it feels like something quite new if they tried that tactic and it worked. The article also implies that emulator projects are legal, but given that modern systems likely use encryption as part of their privacy prevention proces…
"privacy prevention process"
that's one of those typos that's also correct.
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#8Is www.NintendoHitlist.com not already a website that lists every lawsuit Nintendo has files with a dedicated section to threatened to sue company's?
Cuz that would be as good as that website that tracks every project google killed
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#9The main subject of the article seems to have come to an amicable agreement with Nintendo, but for all of the “copyright infringement enabling tools” that do get forcibly taken down, the way to avoid that just seems so obvious to me. The emulators, or DRM bypassing tools, or whatever, all seem to get tripped up by the marketing. Releasing emulators or DRM cracks is protected speech and not a copyright violation, but…
Do not forget that the Switch ROMs have encryption on them, and Ryujinx seemed to have some way of decoding them.
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#10The main subject of the article seems to have come to an amicable agreement with Nintendo, but for all of the “copyright infringement enabling tools” that do get forcibly taken down, the way to avoid that just seems so obvious to me. The emulators, or DRM bypassing tools, or whatever, all seem to get tripped up by the marketing. Releasing emulators or DRM cracks is protected speech and not a copyright violation, but…
or simply going dark and releasing updates along with a public key to verify authenticity of the author making the contributions as a torrent and not on any governed site that can receive take down notices.