- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
Nintendo has been actively taking down YouTube videos that feature its games being emulated or modded, which has sparked significant discussion and concern within the gaming community.
My best guess would be that they’re trying to get ahead of the recompiler scene before it catches a bigger foothold. But also, that lumps in the entire rom hacking and fan translation community, which I’m sure they view as perpetuating the piracy of their games.
I don’t care what bullshit justification they try to come up with for it; the bottom line is that it violates computer owners’ property rights.
It is absolutely unconscionable, ass-backwards, Bizarro-world bullshit to privilege temporary fake Imaginary Property (IP) over and above actual property!
If AI-generating images from copyrighted training material is legal, then generating source code from copyrighted binary code is as well.
It’s probably not about that but rather to destroy the secondary market of modchips and save-file editors in Japan.