VGEsoterica
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Nintendo, being Nintendo...is that family friendly company on the exterior that inside seems to be a vicious and angry untrained dog ready to pounce and bite whenever it feels threatened...even if the threat isn't really there. But that doesn't mean they can't do some weird stuff that could end up having some bad effects down the line.
Dolphin MAYBE flew too close to the sun distributing keys and should have instead pointed to a file that users supplied with said keys, as if you own the hardware those keys are "inside" and you do have legal use to use them on non-target hardware per previous court cases. The DMCA entry they cite seems to both ALLOW and disallow what Dolphin did...which is not good when it comes to the law...giant chunks of ambiguity.
But its mostly Nintendo's stands that emulation stifles creativity and "allows for illegal use". Just because something COULD be used for nefarious purposes doesn't mean the legal use of emulation by end users should also be threatened. So it really doesn't seem to be about keys in their statement but the whole concept of legal emulation in the first place.
Nintendo gets a court case in a cherry picked jurisdiction with friendly judges who's last experience with technology was in the 60's....could be bad.
But its an interesting look at what Nintendo is up to these days
Dolphin MAYBE flew too close to the sun distributing keys and should have instead pointed to a file that users supplied with said keys, as if you own the hardware those keys are "inside" and you do have legal use to use them on non-target hardware per previous court cases. The DMCA entry they cite seems to both ALLOW and disallow what Dolphin did...which is not good when it comes to the law...giant chunks of ambiguity.
But its mostly Nintendo's stands that emulation stifles creativity and "allows for illegal use". Just because something COULD be used for nefarious purposes doesn't mean the legal use of emulation by end users should also be threatened. So it really doesn't seem to be about keys in their statement but the whole concept of legal emulation in the first place.
Nintendo gets a court case in a cherry picked jurisdiction with friendly judges who's last experience with technology was in the 60's....could be bad.
But its an interesting look at what Nintendo is up to these days