Imagine not knowing the law or thinking that it doesn’t apply to you. There’s a reason why emulation has been around for so long but Yuzu got shut down pretty damn quickly.
The key wasn’t used in a book or in the hex values for a flag. That’s like saying the formula for Coke can’t be proprietary because it could be put in a book.
Software can absolutely be proprietary, and that key is part of the software.
I disagree. Sure, companies have a moral right to recoup their R&D costs on a console, but I fully reject the Divine Right of Shareholders. As long as the emulators aren’t sold for profit and no one is hurt, a multibillion dollar company like Nintendo has zero moral ground to tell us that we cannot emulate consoles that we have bought to play games that we also bought.
And yet Nintendo files bogus copyright claims against emulators.
They’re not bogus. The emulator that shut down were selling a product using a proprietary encryption key owned by Nintendo.
That’s why Dolphin still exists.
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Imagine not knowing the law or thinking that it doesn’t apply to you. There’s a reason why emulation has been around for so long but Yuzu got shut down pretty damn quickly.
What if the key was in a book? It would have to be protected by free-speech, which makes it uncensorable.
What if the key contents were used as hex values to make a flag? Would you censor a flag too?
No such thing as “proprietary encryption keys” exist.
What if your hypothetical was real? Then you’d really have a strong argument!
look up 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
not hypothetical, real flag
The key wasn’t used in a book or in the hex values for a flag. That’s like saying the formula for Coke can’t be proprietary because it could be put in a book.
Software can absolutely be proprietary, and that key is part of the software.
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And ryujinx?
Well the dev closed it without any public c&d…
Maybe the thousands of copyrighted images of amiibos hosted on https://amiibo.ryujinx.org/ ?
I disagree. Sure, companies have a moral right to recoup their R&D costs on a console, but I fully reject the Divine Right of Shareholders. As long as the emulators aren’t sold for profit and no one is hurt, a multibillion dollar company like Nintendo has zero moral ground to tell us that we cannot emulate consoles that we have bought to play games that we also bought.
The emulator they shut down was being sold for a profit. They haven’t gone after Dolphin, which is free.