Nintendo Takes Down Emulators and Firmware in Massive GitHub DMCA Sweep (ign.com)

39 pointsby CharlesWan hour ago7 comments

eska 14 minutes ago

In the long term, the only way for them to fight this is streaming video games. But even then AI can be used to recreate gameplay from video material..

glimshe 21 minutes ago

I thought I had the right to use circumvention procedures to back up my own games. If I own game and run it on an emulator with a firmware extracted from my device, what law am I breaking?

ndiddy 11 minutes ago

As far as I understand it, the way it works is that section 1201 of the DMCA has two parts. One part prohibits breaking DRM, and one part prohibits trafficking in devices or software intended to circumvent DRM. The part that prohibits breaking DRM has tons of exceptions so previously legal behavior doesn't become illegal just because something has a digital lock. However, the part that prohibits trafficking in circumvention devices has none of these exceptions. That's the part that Nintendo uses to go after emulators.

FLeXMurphy 22 minutes ago

Should use that leak of GitHub source code from some years back to fire up an `.ru`-based clone at this point. These people are clowns.