Re:Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from ...
by roywiggins on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @05:26PM
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The LoC can issue exemptions, sort of, but it has to be renewed every three years, and they don't actually apply to circumvention devices themselves, only to users.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/victory-users-libraria...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/new-dmca-ss1201-exempt...
Re:Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from ...
by BobaFloutist on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @09:20PM
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>what "fair uses" do we really have to stand on? "I can play Nintendo games better on my PC"? Are you a university or organization trying to preserve software?
"I own it and I want to" is more than enough.
That is in fact how many court cases are resolved.
>The legal uses as well as the plausible fair uses need to be evaluated before you can say "nope, this has gotta go".
what "fair uses" do we really have to stand on? "I can play Nintendo games better on my PC"? Are you a university or organization trying to preserve software?
At the end of the day, video games as a whole are not a societal need. So it becomes hard to make some argument against having IP owners not clamp down on entertainment intended to make money.