Am I mistaken or wasn't the actual issue with ROMs as opposed to emulators?
Much to their frustration 😆.
I think what they are getting them on is not the fact that they are emulators but that those emulators break the encryption on Switch games....and that is not legal (I think there is a precedent).
I think some emulators have been taken down because they basically suggested you use Nintendo's own encryptions keys, which were illegally obtained.
@osan0: The upshot is there was a longstanding debate on whether emulators were legal or not, and now a Nintendo Lawyer has said that emulators are completely legal.
It sounds like we have a definitive answer from a definitive source!
It's a good thing for them too, because Nintendo distributes emulators, and they wouldn't want to be doing anything illegal.
There can always be a separate discussion about encryption. If it was illegal to break encryption then it would basically be illegal to solve cryptograms, or recover your files, and that seems silly. Anyway lawyers can argue about that in court. The important thing is now we can all accept that emulators are legal.
Breaking an encryption is generally considered to be illegal.
ex. https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/illegal-to-break-encryption-the-european-court-of-human-rights-rules
Correct, all the emulators that have gotten shut down have done something illegal that's not the emulation of hardware itself
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