Imagine not knowing the law or thinking that it doesn't apply to you. There's a reason why emulation has been around for so long but Yuzu got shut down pretty damn quickly.

[–] catsup@lemmy.one 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Proprietary encryption key

What if the key was in a book? It would have to be protected by free-speech, which makes it uncensorable.

What if the key contents were used as hex values to make a flag? Would you censor a flag too?

No such thing as "proprietary encryption keys" exist.

[–] celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What if your hypothetical was real? Then you'd really have a strong argument!

[–] far_university190@feddit.org 2 points 12 hours ago

look up 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

not hypothetical, real flag

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The key wasn't used in a book or in the hex values for a flag. That's like saying the formula for Coke can't be proprietary because it could be put in a book.

Software can absolutely be proprietary, and that key is part of the software.

[–] kralk@lemm.ee 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And ryujinx?

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 11 points 2 days ago

Well the dev closed it without any public c&d...

Maybe the thousands of copyrighted images of amiibos hosted on https://amiibo.ryujinx.org/ ?

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I disagree. Sure, companies have a moral right to recoup their R&D costs on a console, but I fully reject the Divine Right of Shareholders. As long as the emulators aren't sold for profit and no one is hurt, a multibillion dollar company like Nintendo has zero moral ground to tell us that we cannot emulate consoles that we have bought to play games that we also bought.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 6 points 2 days ago

The emulator they shut down was being sold for a profit. They haven't gone after Dolphin, which is free.