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I_Marquosius t1_je27pmg wrote

I can understand Nintendo not being a fan of this, especially considering an emulator may have no way to discern between a legally purchased copy and an illegally pirated copy. I'm also guessing there are no laws in place of third party software providing an emulation service?

There are good things to take from this: the publicity of the decent games catalogue, discovering new games, or even being able to play games not accessible elsewhere.

Maybe Nintendo might find it better to use the emulator to identify what games from the GameCube era were popular and use that to either issue some re-releases on their modern platforms, or develop new games using feedback.

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DarthMill t1_je43g37 wrote

There is no legal issues with this. Your computer doesn’t discern pirated software form non either. The law views it as the private company’s responsibility to enforce their copyright and gives them tools such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

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I_Marquosius t1_je44cj5 wrote

That's what I thought. Especially concerning older games, there's nothing that would have been put in place to separate the original from other copies, so Nintendo cannot even prove what the emulated game is based on.

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