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Things like this and companies like Nintendo must be stopped, it's both morally and legally correct to emulate when people actually owns the machine and cartrid
by _imnothere 3y ago
Things like this and companies like Nintendo must be stopped, it's both morally and legally correct to emulate when people actually owns the machine and cartridges.
- aurareturn 3y agoDisagreed. I'm guessing that 99.99% of Switch emulator users do not own the cartridges. They're stealing, which is not only morally wrong, but legally wrong. Nintendo has the right to protect their IP and they have the right to make money. Furthermore, I disagree in general that it's morally and legally correct to emulate something you purchased.
- wiz21c 3y agoThat is, Yuzu in itself doesn't do anything. You need Nintendo's IP to run Yuzu, so Nintendo should blame those who steal their IP. Now, the real question is: did Yuzu's creator have illegal access to Nintendo's IP to write Yuzu ?
- hengistbury 3y agoRegardless of the moral question, digital piracy is not really "stealing"
- loup-vaillant 3y agoIndeed it isn't: digital goods are non-rival, and as such fundamentally un-steal-able. Property as we usually understand it simply doesn't apply to them. There's still copyright infringement, but "unlawful breach of a state-granted monopoly" doesn't sound nearly as bad as stealing. You wouldn't steal a car, would you?
- fartsucker69 3y agowhat's morally problematic about emulating something you already own?
- cubefox 3y agoWhat's morally unproblematic about emulating something you don't already own?
- catlifeonmars 3y agoIt may be morally wrong, but that is somewhat orthogonal to whether it is legally wrong (e.g. illegal).
- esskay 3y agoBy this logic we need to block Kodi, Plex, hell computers as someone might use them to download something instead of buying it.
- rbits 3y ago> Furthermore, I disagree in general that it's morally and legally correct to emulate something you purchased. Can you elaborate? I see no reason why that wouldn't be the case.
- Moldoteck 3y agopiracy is not stealing. the potential profit that they could have had is just potential, not actual, so you don't steal money. You also do not steal the game since the game is still owned by nintendo/others. Please don't accuse users of doing something they don't do. Also, this lawsuit is not against users, it's against an emulator creator, they didn't still nor pirate the nintendo content (it can be debatable if they had access to proprietary nintendo code and the emulator was written based on that code, but if not we can for sure say that they do not infringe nintendo's copyright)
- NlightNFotis 3y agoPiracy *is* stealing. Sure, you may not have taken away money from Nintendo’s bank account by coercion/force/whatever, but the company and its employees have partaken into an effort to produce something of obvious value to you, for which they are asking for compensation for you to be able to enjoy, and you’re choosing to skirt this understanding so that you can enjoy their work without compensating them for it. Yeah, you didn’t steal money - you stole their work. Understand that you’re not entitled to other people’s work, regardless of what they’re asking for it. If you don’t enjoy their stipulations for it, like the hardware they limit their software to run, you’re free to not transact, not steal the work.
- bdhcuidbebe 3y agoNo, piracy is piracy, thats why we use that specific word.
- aurareturn 3y agoPirates steal. That’s why they call them pirates.
- ambichook 3y agoyarrr pirates stole. clicky clacky pirates pirate
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- parski 3y agoYou're full of shit.