Comment on A new NES emulator was briefly available on the Apple App Store
QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I mean, the most that Nintendo would do is send a cease and desist…
I doubt they would go straight to filing court documents. The cease and desist is meant to save time and costs for them and even then they still haven’t officially filed anything in court.
But I understand not even wanting to get on the radar of a big corporation like that.
youngGoku@lemmy.world 9 months ago
IIRC Nintendo is notorious for pressing charges against copyright infringements.
cbarrick@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Right. But there is no copyright infringement in an NES emulator, as long as no copyrighted games are distributed.
Emulation itself is not copyright infringement.
The recent issue with the Switch emulator was that they were distributing encryption keys along with the emulator. I don’t think that was a copyright issue (encryption keys are not expression, therefore not copyrightable) but probably a CFAA issue.
None of that applies to the NES.
Bandicoot_Academic@lemmy.one 9 months ago
Yuzu didn’t distribute keys. You had to obtain them yourself. The problems were that:
Note that I don’t actually know for sure. This is just what I saw online.
catloaf@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Using leaked source code or binary firmware blobs are other common reasons emulators can violate copyright. I don’t know if this emulator did any of those.
Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
I highly doubt it. The NES has been completely reverse engineered for decades, there really isn’t any reason to use proprietary code for an emulator for it.
kadu@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The NES is the most basic possible architecture you could imagine. There’s no source code to be leaked here, there’s nothing you would even call a BIOS.