nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 8 months agoTears Of The Kingdom Was Pirated 1 Million Times, Nintendo Claims In Lawsuitkotaku.comexternal-linkmessage-square152fedilinkarrow-up1228arrow-down19
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minus-squareGlitterInfection@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·8 months agoPirated, or downloaded a back up of a game they bought a physical copy of? All the people I know who emulated it also bought it in this case, because emulation was objectively a better experience for the game. I bought it and played in on the switch, myself, but if I ever did another playthrough I’d want to higher res of emulation.
minus-squareOmega@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·8 months agoThat’s technically legal right? Kinda like ripping a CD?
minus-square520@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up8·8 months agoRipping the game from your own system/cartridge is legal, downloading an identical copy from the internet is not.
minus-square520@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 months agohttps://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-digital.html
minus-squareKecessa@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·edit-28 months agoPirated in this case as they’re talking about the leak that happened before it was released, so no one owned a copy of it at that point.
Pirated, or downloaded a back up of a game they bought a physical copy of?
All the people I know who emulated it also bought it in this case, because emulation was objectively a better experience for the game.
I bought it and played in on the switch, myself, but if I ever did another playthrough I’d want to higher res of emulation.
That’s technically legal right? Kinda like ripping a CD?
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
Pirated in this case as they’re talking about the leak that happened before it was released, so no one owned a copy of it at that point.