Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games

lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Also, what the fuck is with Japanese law, criminalising modding?

  My best guess would be that they’re trying to get ahead of the recompiler scene before it catches a bigger foothold. But also, that lumps in the entire rom hacking and fan translation community, which I’m sure they view as perpetuating the piracy of their games.

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My best guess would be that they’re trying to get ahead of the recompiler scene before it catches a bigger foothold.

    If AI-generating images from copyrighted training material is legal, then generating source code from copyrighted binary code is as well.

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    • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s only true if you’re a large corporation doing it.

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  • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s probably not about that but rather to destroy the secondary market of modchips and save-file editors in Japan.

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  • AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nonetheless, the best thing would be to let those kinds of fans do what they do, because it is free advertising. But no, they’d rather be right than pragmatic, so they shoot themselves in the foot. Meanwhile, if they’re so worried that these guys have that kind of serious reach and influence - aren’t those the people they shouldn’t piss on??

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t care what bullshit justification they try to come up with for it; the bottom line is that it violates computer owners’ property rights.

    It is absolutely unconscionable, ass-backwards, Bizarro-world bullshit to privilege temporary fake Imaginary Property (IP) over and above actual property!

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• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Typical Japanese bullshittery. I watch sumo, and even when there was no official way to watch outside Japan the sumo association would get youtube accounts showing matches taken down. Tons of industries are still run by technological dinosaurs.

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  • Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Japan was already living in the 2000’s back in the 80’s. The problem is that 40 years later, they’re still living and thinking in the exact same way.

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    • papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “Japan has had the best 2000s tech since the 80s” I think is the succinct phrase you were looking for

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      • Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s not just about the tech, it’s about their mindset. They’re stuck in that era mentally.

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• johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I mean, if the decision were made today, I guarantee our current supreme court in the US would not have given us fair use.

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  • mPony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    the current U.S. Supreme Court wouldn’t give you democracy, even though the American military has killed tens of thousands of people around the world in its name.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Could I at least get a barrel of oil? No need to beat around the bush, I’ll take what I can get.

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• x4740N@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You sure is Nintendo of Japan and not Nintendo of america that’s doing it because the american office would use american jurisdiction

  Also, what the fuck is with Japanese law, criminalising modding?

  You state that this is Japanese law but what is clearly happeing here is nintendo abusing laws, please correct that statement of yours because your unfairly criticising the Japanese government for the actions of nintendo

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  • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It is the result of Japanese law. Further info here (in English) and here (in Japanese).

    As such, yes, the Japanese government is also to blame. Plus any other government playing along with this crap, be it from USA or Brazil or whatever.

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• Kalysta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I would assume a company such as sony or nintendo lobbied for that law.

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