sirsquidNintendo goes after Switch emulator yuzu in new lawsuit
YaBoyMaxUgh, not this again. I’m very adamantly against piracy and I’ve personally dumped every one of my Switch ROMs from games I physically own, but these kinds of stunts make me want to pirate Nintendo games purely out of spite. Hopefully this gets thrown out or otherwise resolved quickly. The issue of clean room emulators has been tested before and found to be fair use and to my knowledge there’s no legal precedent for Nintendo’s claims.
im very adamantly against piracy
I think most pirates make bullshit excuses like “preservation” (which they are not doing) but why are you against it writ large?
ampersandrewThe 3DS and Wii U digital stores were just decommissioned, and preservation is a bullshit excuse?
Preservation is noble. Most pirates aren’t doing preservation. They have a hard drive full of stuff they want to play for free. That’s a far cry from following 3-2-1 protocol, let alone real archive standards.
If you’re downloading stuff because you want to play for free - which can be because of a lack of access (financial or otherwise) or a myriad of other reasons (perhaps it’s a milestone work but you don’t want to support a piece of shit dev) - then just be honest.
Why?
Because it undermines the actual practice of archiving, which I explained in the part of my comment you left out.
which I explained in the part of my comment you left out.
Pardon me. Here is the part you left out:
It cheapens the endeavor
You’ll forgive me if I can’t seem to scrape enough detail about your argument out of that.
Piracy fully supports the endeavor of archiving. The motivations of pirates has nothing at all to do with it. Archiving springs from piracy, it is a consequence of piracy. And the corporations you are de-facto acting as defense counsel for here have proven over and over again it means less than nothing to them.
But I’m making assumptions about your argument, because apparently you think “cheapens the endeavor” is a real mic drop.
Piracy fully supports the endeavor of archiving.
It supports it about as much rightwing fuckbois shouting “FREE SPEECH” every time they get in trouble fully supports the first amendment.