• TJA!@sh.itjust.works
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    3 hours ago

    They are banning emulators but are then using them themselves. They are banning roms but are then using those same roms themselves.

    Sounds like hypocrisy to me

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      3 hours ago

      Alright. Let me make sure I understand. Since Nintendo protects its IP, it isn’t allowed to use its own IP?

      Like, fuck Nintendo, but that doesn’t even make sense

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        2 hours ago

        yes it is. what they’re doing is shitty, not illegal.

        "Hey don’t use emulators to play our games we’re gonna sue you.

        … and then just take that emulator software you made and sell it in our official devices. but still fuck you."

        not illegal. just giant assholes with no sense of self-awareness.

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          2 hours ago

          They’ve never sued anyone for playing an emulated game. They have (most likely wrongly) threatened emulator developers over circumventing copyright and encryption. I don’t like it anymore than anybody else, but are we actually mad at a company for preserving their games? You can hate them for what they are doing to others while still being ok with their own emulation