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johnnyanmac10/01/20242 repliesview on HN

> You can't just say "SOME PEOPLE ARE USING THIS FOR PIRACY SO NOBODY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO USE THIS LEGALLY"

That is in fact how many court cases are resolved.

>The legal uses as well as the plausible fair uses need to be evaluated before you can say "nope, this has gotta go".

what "fair uses" do we really have to stand on? "I can play Nintendo games better on my PC"? Are you a university or organization trying to preserve software?

At the end of the day, video games as a whole are not a societal need. So it becomes hard to make some argument against having IP owners not clamp down on entertainment intended to make money.


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roywiggins10/01/2024

The LoC can issue exemptions, sort of, but it has to be renewed every three years, and they don't actually apply to circumvention devices themselves, only to users.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/victory-users-libraria...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/new-dmca-ss1201-exempt...

BobaFloutist10/02/2024

>what "fair uses" do we really have to stand on? "I can play Nintendo games better on my PC"? Are you a university or organization trying to preserve software?

"I own it and I want to" is more than enough.