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Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games (www.retronews.com)
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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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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't see any way you could argue a video game isn't computer software. It literally just is.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nintendo could try make up something like "it's not computer software since the Switch is a console, not a computer" or something like that. Not a great argument, but they have good lawyers and could probably convince a court that it's true.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But the game is running on a computer with the emulator which still strongly lends to it being software

[–] helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

I think I somewhat recall during the peak Wii U disaster era, during shareholder meetings Nintendo would call the games for the system "Software". So, that'd definitely backfire on them I'm sure