• pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online
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    1 day ago

    They’re not bogus. The emulator that shut down were selling a product using a proprietary encryption key owned by Nintendo.

    That’s why Dolphin still exists.

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      2 hours ago

      Proprietary encryption key

      What if the key was in a book? It would have to be protected by free-speech, which makes it uncensorable.

      What if the key contents were used as hex values to make a flag? Would you censor a flag too?

      No such thing as “proprietary encryption keys” exist.

    • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
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      17 hours ago

      I disagree. Sure, companies have a moral right to recoup their R&D costs on a console, but I fully reject the Divine Right of Shareholders. As long as the emulators aren’t sold for profit and no one is hurt, a multibillion dollar company like Nintendo has zero moral ground to tell us that we cannot emulate consoles that we have bought to play games that we also bought.