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Encryption keys are not an expression, they are more like technological utility. I don’t think they are copyrighted. The DMCA could apply because of the anti-ci
by tinus_hn 3y ago
Encryption keys are not an expression, they are more like technological utility. I don’t think they are copyrighted. The DMCA could apply because of the anti-circumvention rules but that’s also kind of doubtful because emulation is fair use.
Nevertheless making an emulator for a current console so easily available so anyone can pirate games on release day is unfair to Nintendo and it should surprise no one that they would act.
- Mindwipe 3y agoFair use is irrelevant to the anti-circumvention provisions (at least unless the Library of Congress explicitly sets out an exception, and they have not for emulation), and the statement that encryption is fair use is significantly more ambiguous than people hope it is (for a start neither of the relevant cases were heard in a high enough court to establish a significant precedent).