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[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why don't people sue gun manufacturers every time somebody is murdered?

Because gun makers lobbied congress to make it specifically illegal to do so. Even though unscrupulous practices by said gun lobby is responsible for probably hundreds of thousands of needless deaths.

Or vehicle manufacturers each time an accident happens?

They get sued for accidents caused by defects quite often.

Why don't they sue PC manufacturers for producing the hardware that led to the emulator?

This one is perfectly analogous to the Nintendo tomfoolery, though.

Suing Yuzu for piracy seems incredibly fucking stupid and nonsensical, but I'm sure the Neanderthals in the courtroom will side with Nintendo.

Happened with Mega and countless torrent sites so yeah, you're probably right 😮‍💨

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why don't they sue PC manufacturers for producing the hardware that led to the emulator?

This one is perfectly analogous to the Nintendo tomfoolery, though.

Not really. PCs aren't purpose build to run emulators, these emulators just happen to also work on them.

Emulators on the other hand are purpose build to circumvent anti piracy measures (which is illegal even for your own use), even if piracy may not be their primary intention.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Emulators on the other hand are purpose build to circumvent anti piracy measures

No, emulators are purpose built to allow you to play a game on another platform. That's literally what they're for.

Whether the game is legally purchased, pirated, shareware or abandonware is completely irrelevant to the purpose and function of an emulator.

Personally I have used emulators to play old Commodore 64/Amiga games from my childhood, ditto DOS games and one of the old Pokémon games to see what the fuss was about.

None of those games were available for purchase anywhere aka it was all abandonware and not piracy. I do my piracy with torrents of games meant for the PC like most people.

Btw, as someone pointed out elsewhere on this post, there's another good reason to use an emulator even for games available to purchase for the intended system: expensive peripherals that break and can't be fixed. Unlike some vastly superior ones made for playing on the PC.