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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Fuck Nintendo. Going after emulators then trying to resell 20 year old games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

When have Nintendo actually gone after emulators? ROM distributors, sure, but all the emulators are still widely available.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Valve's legal department contacted Nintendo to inquire about the announced release of Dolphin Emulator on Steam. In reply to this, a lawyer representing Nintendo of America requested Valve prevent Dolphin from releasing on the Steam store, citing the DMCA as justification. Valve then forwarded us the statement from Nintendo's lawyers, and told us that we had to come to an agreement with Nintendo in order to release on Steam. Considering the strong legal wording at the start of the document and the citation of DMCA law, we took the letter very seriously.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ooh I wondered what the actual story behind that was, it was all speculation at the time. Is that a statement from Dolphin themselves?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Oh wow, I can't believe I missed this! (Link for anyone else who also missed Dolphin's response

I'm now annoyed that I heard huge amounts of baseless speculation at the time but then nothing about this well-presented conclusion of the whole issue. I'd say that technically Nintendo still aren't 'going after emulation' as they know they don't have any legal leg to stand on, so that stern letter is all they can really do!

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