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Nintendo is trying to shut down almost all Switch Emulators, including Eden, Citron, Kenji-NX, and MeloNx (www.dsogaming.com)
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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 46 points 6 days ago (14 children)

Nintendo succeeded in killing Yuzu because they had decryption keys which Nintendo could argue is breaking their copy protection, which is why they settled for 2.4 million dollars in sales damages because they knew they wouldn't be able to win in court.

All of these forks have since removed the key and require the user to supply it (legally from your own console).

So in theory they should be protected under US law since emulation and reverse engineering is completely legal.

However

Nintendo also has infinite money to throw at the problem, and FOSS devs are usually not willing to deal with insane amount of personal liability because of a hobby, which is how they killed Ryujinx.

So you better hold onto your guts if you plan to fight Nintendo.

Or move to i2p so they can't disable you lol.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Emulation isn't protected.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

That was the use of emulators in advertising to show performance differences.

It does not protect emulation as the company went bankrupt before that could be decided.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Granted I’m not deep diving into sources, but

a decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals which ruled that the copying of a copyrighted BIOS software during the development of an emulator software does not constitute copyright infringement, but is covered by fair use. The court also ruled that Sony's PlayStation trademark had not been tarnished by Connectix Corp.'s sale of its emulator software, the Virtual Game Station.

Unless I’m illiterate, isn’t that stating that even the sale of an emulator is protected?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Someone corrected me, different case than the one people usually source.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

No that's was the second lawsuit, Sony v Bleem!, which was a different emulator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleem!

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