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Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games (www.retronews.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Kain1@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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Nintendo has been actively taking down YouTube videos that feature its games being emulated or modded, which has sparked significant discussion and concern within the gaming community.

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 66 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

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