It’s actually kind of funny that emulators, which explicitly violate copyright law in the US as a circumvention measure prohibited by the DMCA as well as infringing for any rom created after the 1920s (ie. all of them) which have not been placed into the public domain, are perfectly fine here because that doesn’t “feel” like piracy since the games are not generating revenue.

Anyway, you’re almost certainly looking for [email protected] instead of this community. I didn’t even know that community existed until yesterday with the kerfuffle over lemmy.world defederating from dbzer0.com. Streisand effect-ish in a way. Best of luck, and keep a keen eye out for the EIC.

It’s actually kind of funny that emulators, which explicitly violate copyright law in the US as a circumvention measure prohibited by the DMCA

Except this is false. Emulation is legal per the DMCA, and this was settled decades ago

Although I agree with you for the most part, as far as I understand it, there seems to be different layers to this.

Emulators are legal if they’re built from ground up, but if they use any code from the actual system, it’s illegal. For example, I think Dolphin tried to get on Steam, but they were disallowed because they used a “leaked copy of the Wii Common Code”.

Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. The piracy talk recently have been kind of interesting, because a couple of the emulator communities I’m involved in require proof of dump for any help such as Yuzu’s Discord.