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After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 67 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

The top IP lawyer at Nintendo agreed that emulators are technically legal at a panel for intellectual property rights.

They run afoul of the law when they bypass encryption, recreate copyrighted programs, or point users to pirated material.

[–] nul9o9@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is it possible to emulate without bypassing encryption?

[–] wccrawford@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

In theory, it's possible for games that don't use encryption. None of which are official Switch games.

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