After shutting down several popular emulators over the years, Nintendo's top IP lawyer just admitted that emulators are legal.
  • saigot@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    sounds great, until you read literally the next sentence:

    They run afoul of the law when they bypass encryption, recreate copyrighted programs, or point users to pirated material.

    aka you can emulate stuff, just not for anything remotely modern.

    • Supervivens@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      2 months ago

      How does it bypassing encryption suddenly make it illegal??? That’s like saying you legally own this lockbox and can take it home however if you open it using anything but our official key you are breaking the law.