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[StreetsofBeige]

Luckily I have a pretty extensive background in IP / Copyright law and have taught it at the college level, putting me at a big advantage when I appealed the removal as incorrect. I managed to have the video reinstated in four hours and received an apology email shortly thereafter.

But I was still irritated as companies DONT want you to emulate, even if (in the United States) its a perfectly legal activity so long as you follow X/Y/Z rules. Companies are forcing content offline that shows allowable use of emulation / games...because they think if you don't know how to do it...you will just fork over more $$$ to them for the right to play what you already own.

Just curious what are the general X/Y/Z rules allowing emulation?

 

[beatdowniidx]

Feels ridiculous to even have to make a video like this...but sometimes it has to get done!

Last Saturday I had a PSP on Steam Deck tutorial removed for four hours as it was claimed as "harmful-illegal" / "teaching hacking and obtaining stolen credentials"...which could not be FURTHER from the truth.

Luckily I have a pretty extensive background in IP / Copyright law and have taught it at the college level, putting me at a big advantage when I appealed the removal as incorrect. I managed to have the video reinstated in four hours and received an apology email shortly thereafter.

But I was still irritated as companies DONT want you to emulate, even if (in the United States) its a perfectly legal activity so long as you follow X/Y/Z rules. Companies are forcing content offline that shows allowable use of emulation / games...because they think if you don't know how to do it...you will just fork over more $$$ to them for the right to play what you already own.

So...know your rights! Especially if you make tutorials teaching people how to use these amazing emulators. It's important we don't just all roll over

Curious GAF...who here does these kinds of tutorials? and have you ever been hit with a takedown? If so...dm me. I am curious

And if anyone ever needs help with this lmk. Happy to help!

Appreciate what you do btw keep up the great job

 

[Fabieter]

Just curious what are the general X/Y/Z rules allowing emulation?

Ripping your own games, bios is a must. There are emulator which use their own bios tho like dolphin.

 

[VGEsoterica]

Just curious what are the general X/Y/Z rules allowing emulation?

Owning the game you have a dump for. Obtaining the bios yourself. Am I saying this is what people do? No

But when I teach people how to set up emulators I never touch the “where to obtain” portion. I tell you what you need, show you where to place the file, etc etc.

And that’s fine but if I said “go here to get X bios”…then I am on the wrong side of the rules

 

[Guilty_AI]

Owning the game you have a dump for.

BTW, what if you download a dump from the internet for a game you own? Where does that fall?

 

[Kokoloko85]

Don't worry, the industry is bigger than ever. Your stocks are safe.

Yep, piracy helps developers..

 

[Guilty_AI]

Yep, piracy helps developers..

it might sometimes actually

 

[Kokoloko85]

ill happily buy a copy of Pikmin on the Switch Eshop if nintendo would put it up. otherwise people will just resort to other methods to get the games they want

I agree, I have a few gamecube games still. The older or rare expensive games I understand. New games though not so much

 

[Kiya's Guard]

 

[Krathoon]

The company that did Night Trap, Double Switch, and Corpse Killer did great remasters of those games.

 

[Doczu]

The company that did Night Trap, Double Switch, and Corpse Killer did great remasters of those games.

You'd have to pay me to play them. I wouldn't even want to emulate fmv games

it might sometimes actually

The developer of Darkwood released his own torrent on piratebay. Said that people would pirate his game anyway so he provided a clean copy with no malware attached. Game did so good it released on consoles.

Minecraft is another one. Notch was fine with people downloading it. It's not all black and white.

 

[Fuz]

it might sometimes actually

It does, there are studies.

 

[Guilty_AI]

It does, there are studies.

i know one study, but are there more?

 

[coffinbirth]

You don’t need to worry…it’s already happening

http://[URL]https://blog.archive.or...lawsuit-defending-controlled-digital-lending/

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That is for CURRENTLY published ebooks, haha. It would be weird if those publishers DIDN'T do that.
The Internet Archives stance on this is utterly bizarre as they claim themselves to be a "library" while seemingly not understanding how libraries work.

 

[cartman414]

In the end I think warez did more bad than good for me, everytime I modded my system I actually stopped playing games lol. I had fun when I bought PSX games, I couldn't get every single one of them. Then I got persuaded into modding, played a few and cast it aside and started to buy and enjoy games again.

With emulation it was sort of the same, the odd unreleased game was fun, but I would get 300 SNES games and play about 6. I don't see the point besides some novelty like games released only in arcades or unreleased games. During the 360 gen everyone around me stopped modding their system, they wanted to play online without risk of being banned.

With movies its sort of the same. I never used torrents anymore since I have HBO, Showtime, Disney+ et al. Its just a hassle. I think if its readily available, lots of consumers will settle.

That is, until the stuff is taken down (see: much of the DC/WB animated library).

 

[VGEsoterica]

That is for CURRENTLY published ebooks, haha. It would be weird if those publishers DIDN'T do that.
The Internet Archives stance on this is utterly bizarre as they claim themselves to be a "library" while seemingly not understanding how libraries work.

I just mean them being shut down, not gaming related but it could stop them existing

 

[Krathoon]

Imagine if the F.B.I got involved.

 

[TLZ]

Luckily I have a pretty extensive background in IP / Copyright law and have taught it at the college level

That's very cool.

 

[VGEsoterica]

That's very cool.

It has its moments lol

 

[Nihilum]

What a world we would live in if Nintendo / Sony / Microsoft et al. decided to embrace emulation and have an online shop for their older ROMs. You could call it Good Old Roms. Sigh, it will never happen.

 

[GreatnessRD]

So basically, you told YouTube to suck yo dick and they complied.

Big Boss energy mah boi.

 

[VGEsoterica]

So basically, you told YouTube to suck yo dick and they complied.

Big Boss energy mah boi.

in a professional manner of speaking...kinda

 

[GreatnessRD]

in a professional manner of speaking...kinda

No need to be modest. They tried to strong arm you and you told them to hold your pocket!

 

[hlm666]

Luckily I have a pretty extensive background in IP / Copyright law and have taught it at the college level, putting me at a big advantage

What advice/tips would you give to none legal eagles that get hit with copyright strikes on youtube? I know it's probably somewhat unique between different situations but anything you can think of people should do at a general level?

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Did I hear Heimdall_Xtreme ?

I think I heard Heimdall_Xtreme !

I see it with my big eyes

you could get a Vita instead enjoy all the best PSP games + gravity rush

But support Kat!

Gravity Rush is a value Gold game.

 

[VGEsoterica]

What advice/tips would you give to none legal eagles that get hit with copyright strikes on youtube? I know it's probably somewhat unique between different situations but anything you can think of people should do at a general level?

Simple; no links to content, dont tell anyone where to get said content. Teach them HOW to set the emulator up and what files are needed...and leave it at that

 

[coffinbirth]

I just mean them being shut down, not gaming related but it could stop them existing

Well, they are a nonprofit that also has US government affiliations. They officially house large NASA archives, for instance. Anything's possible, but surely this will lead to -at the very least- better moderation of user uploaded content. Would be crazy if this got them shut down.

This case in particular crossed my radar because a company I do freelance work for is a Random house subsidiary and countless ebooks have been repeatedly uploaded to IA, for years on end now. These are all titles that do not fall under the DAISY umbrella, and IA knows this. They have basically been treated like a torrent site getting constant DMCA 's for quite some time, and much like those instances, they eventually lead to lawsuits. What's wild to me is that IA takes a stance of "information should be freely available" seemingly without regard for legality here. They seem to do a fairly good job of keeping newer video games off of there, and yet books are free game, apparently. Not sure about other media as I've not really looked for anything else there.

Anyways, sorry to ask a potentially dumb question here...but what "companies" or just company, were responsible for your video to get pulled? I didn't hear you mention it in the video, so apologies if I missed it.