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The DMCA basically exists to support Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft's anti-consumer and anti-competitive business models. Jailbreaking is "legal" for anything that isn
by bogwog 3y ago
The DMCA basically exists to support Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft's anti-consumer and anti-competitive business models. Jailbreaking is "legal" for anything that isn't a game console, under the logic that users don't have a good reason to do it besides piracy.
Which is of course complete fucking bullshit, especially since it means that an alternative store can never exist without being violating the DMCA.
I hope that the push towards an alternate app store on iOS also brings more attention to this issue.
(btw, idk if anything I just mentioned above is relevant to the Dolphin situation)
- jeroenhd 3y ago> Which is of course complete fucking bullshit, especially since it means that an alternative store can never exist without being violating the DMCA. I doubt it'll happen, but it would be pretty funny for someone in the EU to try to apply the Digital Markets Act on Nintendo to force them to open the Switch to alternative app stores as revenge for all of these anti-emulation cases. Instead of losing no money at all on people playing 15 year old games, they'd be forced to compete with alternative stores or leave a lucrative market entirely (which would mean everyone would just emulate their crap). For that to happen, they'll need to sell 12 million more Switches inside the EU, stay a gatekeeper for three years, and after that they'll have to piss off some rich person pretty badly, but I can see it happen.
- anticensor 3y agoYou forgot Elsevier and Apple.