Suppose I’m playing an 80’s RPG on real legal hardware and I’m tired of grinding for XP. I use a cart reader to dump the save file, write a save file I downloaded from the web and finish the game. I don’t even have to access any copyrighted data to do this!
Unless you think data that amounts to
{ "rtc": 1713006754, "savestates": [ { "name": " Red", "xp": 1760, "pokemon": [ { "species": 115, "name": "Fluff", "hp": 24 }, { "species": 92, "name": "Bonk", "hp": 11 } ] } ] } ` (abriged example in JSON-y format) is copyright-protected, that is.
frezik@midwest.social 7 months ago
Even if we agree with copyright law as is, that’s hardly a valid analogy. Save files alone are not a complete game.