@nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 1 year agoTears Of The Kingdom Was Pirated 1 Million Times, Nintendo Claims In Lawsuitkotaku.comexternal-linkmessage-square156fedilinkarrow-up1226
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minus-squareOmegalinkfedilinkEnglish7•1 year agoThat’s technically legal right? Kinda like ripping a CD?
minus-square@meteokr@community.adiquaints.moelinkfedilinkEnglish16•1 year agoIANAL, depending on your jurisdiction, downloading someone else’s backup of something can be illegal. Backing up your own physical copy and using that is very often legal.
minus-square@RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish9•1 year agoUsually its the uploading or distributing thats the illegal part.
minus-square520linkfedilink8•1 year agoRipping the game from your own system/cartridge is legal, downloading an identical copy from the internet is not.
That’s technically legal right? Kinda like ripping a CD?
IANAL, depending on your jurisdiction, downloading someone else’s backup of something can be illegal. Backing up your own physical copy and using that is very often legal.
Usually its the uploading or distributing thats the illegal part.
Ripping the game from your own system/cartridge is legal, downloading an identical copy from the internet is not.
Source?
The DMCA.
https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-digital.html