• BruisedMoose@piefed.social
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    1 month ago

    Like “It’s the HOMEBREW channel. Not to be used for playing copyrighted software.”? I mean, I appreciate that they want to play fair with other open source projects and developers, but isn’t the entire emulation community essentially “built on lies and copyright infringement”?

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      1 month ago

      Having user supply some copyrighted software that they should own (like BIOS or decryption keys) is entirely different from an emulator or a homebrew project taking and integrating copyrighted code. They’re lucky Nintendo didn’t sue them into oblivion like that modchip guy because they really could.

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      1 month ago

      but isn’t the entire emulation community essentially “built on lies and copyright infringement”?

      No way, it’s totally for “archival purposes”.

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        1 month ago

        No it’s for testing the limits of the hardware you legally own. E.g. installing Linux and or a Fileserver on it.