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Re:Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from ... by altruios on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @03:07PM (#41712833)
Not just a mp3 file. any media you have purchased can be format shifted by you for archive/personal purposes. regardless of DRM/copy protections. What is illegal is redistribution (thus the copyright).

Again: ianal. But this is kind of a fundamental right. If you own something, it's yours to do with privately as you wish. If you don't own the copyright, then you can't redistribute.

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Re:Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from ... by zerocrates on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @03:39PM (#41713216)
The DMCA makes breaking DRM illegal, even when done for fair use purposes, if it doesn't fall into a small number of tightly-defined exceptions. And they can go after tools that enable people to do this, as well (think of DeCSS for example).
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