No chipping consoles (bypassing the onboard anti-piracy a console has to allow it to play pirate content) - this seems unrelated to emulators tbh.
No linking to pirate content. Obviously.
No including the operating system that runs on the console in the emulator. Software on the emulator has to be completely its own thing.
Assuming emulator devs avoid these things, they might be left alone (but probably not). The fact that some older emulators have survived without their creators ever being served legal notices makes me think that there actually is a specific tightrope you can walk to avoid legal attacks by Nintendo though.
This just sounds like emulator Devs will do what they’ve already done for the BIOS, which isn’t all that different. it’s just going to make the initial setup more annoying.
I think the DMCA has a broad provision against bypassing anti-piracy that applies to software, the argument against the Switch emulators was that they could do this even though they didn’t come with the necessary .keys file.
So, tl;dr:
No chipping consoles (bypassing the onboard anti-piracy a console has to allow it to play pirate content) - this seems unrelated to emulators tbh.
No linking to pirate content. Obviously.
No including the operating system that runs on the console in the emulator. Software on the emulator has to be completely its own thing.
Assuming emulator devs avoid these things, they might be left alone (but probably not). The fact that some older emulators have survived without their creators ever being served legal notices makes me think that there actually is a specific tightrope you can walk to avoid legal attacks by Nintendo though.
This just sounds like emulator Devs will do what they’ve already done for the BIOS, which isn’t all that different. it’s just going to make the initial setup more annoying.
Yeah exactly.
I think the DMCA has a broad provision against bypassing anti-piracy that applies to software, the argument against the Switch emulators was that they could do this even though they didn’t come with the necessary .keys file.