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.

  • Capt. Wolf
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    853 months ago

    Also, what the fuck is with Japanese law, criminalising modding?

    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.

    • @woelkchen@lemmy.world
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      703 months ago

      My best guess would be that they’re trying to get ahead of the recompiler scene before it catches a bigger foothold.

      If AI-generating images from copyrighted training material is legal, then generating source code from copyrighted binary code is as well.

    • @Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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      123 months ago

      It’s probably not about that but rather to destroy the secondary market of modchips and save-file editors in Japan.

    • @grue@lemmy.world
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      23 months ago

      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!

    • @AndrewZabar@lemmy.world
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      23 months ago

      Nonetheless, the best thing would be to let those kinds of fans do what they do, because it is free advertising. But no, they’d rather be right than pragmatic, so they shoot themselves in the foot. Meanwhile, if they’re so worried that these guys have that kind of serious reach and influence - aren’t those the people they shouldn’t piss on??