• Biskii@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 hours ago

    Alright. Let me make sure I understand. Since Nintendo protects its IP, it isn’t allowed to use its own IP?

    Like, fuck Nintendo, but that doesn’t even make sense

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      2 hours ago

      yes it is. what they’re doing is shitty, not illegal.

      "Hey don’t use emulators to play our games we’re gonna sue you.

      … and then just take that emulator software you made and sell it in our official devices. but still fuck you."

      not illegal. just giant assholes with no sense of self-awareness.

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        2 hours ago

        They’ve never sued anyone for playing an emulated game. They have (most likely wrongly) threatened emulator developers over circumventing copyright and encryption. I don’t like it anymore than anybody else, but are we actually mad at a company for preserving their games? You can hate them for what they are doing to others while still being ok with their own emulation