• CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Seriously wtf is up Nintendo’s ass lately. They’ve always been litigious but the last few years have been pretty extreme.

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        6 months ago

        The fact that DMCA requests don’t have to be signed with an asymmetric key that lets you validate the company that sent it was actually behind the request is some of the dumbest shit.

        We’ve known how to use certs online forever. Certainly well before the DMCA. Why the fuck wasn’t that a provision?

        Oh right because our politicians are tech illiterate apes.

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        6 months ago

        Or overcompensation since they acted on emulators and found out there’s more to this? Someone’s started another useless crusade.

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          I fear they’re not going to stop here either. Soon we’ll read news about Minecraft mods and other fan content as well. Backup everything.

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          The emulator is more likely that the Switch 2 was supposed to be released this year and ended up getting pushed to next year. This means they have to support the Switch fully for another year and it’s a harder sell when it’s easy for customers to make a choice between:

          • A Switch and 3ish games

          Or

          • A Steam Deck that can play all the Switch games for free

          When these are both the same price. The fact that instructions were easy to find and follow didn’t help.

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      They’re like Japanese Disney. They’re nothing without their IP and they know it.

      They also know that the only reason they have DK as a character is because Universal dropped the ball in protecting their IP. If they let Garry’s Mod casually have a “Mario” character in it, it dilutes their ability to legally go after some other studio who straight up makes an unofficial Mario game.

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      It started after Satoru Iwata’s death in 2015. He was a notorious true gamer/engineer before CEO and his vision was always long-term. The two who have replaced him since have decidedly chosen the short-term route for fast profit vs long term consumer binding.

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      6 months ago

      I wonder if there being an R4 style cart released recently for the switch has lit a fire under their arses

      Maybe they expanded their legal department recently