| ▲ | stasomatic 6 hours ago | |
An emulator is a piece of software and can't make assumptions. I'm not sure who you're referring to doing the assuming in your Ok, fellow pedant! By dumping and decrypting the ROM, one is breaking the license agreement. And these ROMs slip into the wild. You've read the EULA? It's DRM circumvention. You don't need to like it. No skin off of my nose, but this isn't a John Deer right to repair situation. 1. License Grant/Restrictions; Third-Party Content. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, Nintendo grants you a non-exclusive, revocable license to use the Software solely on the Console for your personal, non-commercial use. For clarity, the Software is licensed, not sold, to you, and you may not make use of the Software except as expressly authorized by this Agreement. Without limitation, you agree that you may not ( a) publish, copy, modify, reverse engineer, lease, rent, decompile, disassemble, distribute, offer for sale, or create derivative works of any portion of the *Software;* NA EULA, perhaps different in your country - https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/legal/a_id/6858... Nintendo has no legal entitlement for their business plan to work financially. Their lawyers will craft it. See ya! | ||
| ▲ | isityettime 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
> > Nintendo has no legal entitlement for their business plan to work financially. > Their lawyers will craft it. See ya! The EFF actually coined a term for this in its analyses of the impact of the DMCA: "Felony Contempt of Business Model". Of course, when they wrote those words they expected the very phrase to constitute a kind of reductio ad absurdum. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/felony-contempt-busine... Obviously privileging arbitrary business models over others isn't one of the legitimate purposes of the law. So what makes you think there's a public interest in supporting Nintendo's business model beyond what existing laws, which do not prohibit emulation or even the sale of compatible consoles, already do? | ||
| ▲ | mcphage an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> Their lawyers will craft it. See ya! If lawyers could have, they would have. | ||