not sure if anyone is going to see at this point but I digress.
even if this case did not directly set a precedent against emulation the mere risk of a repeat of this case with the same outcome is not exactly encouraging to the prospect of someone forking the projects at issue and restarting development.
Whatever happened to the concept of receiving a legal-order, having your lawyers scrutinize it and complying afterwards? None of these high-stakes data handoffs coordinated over insecure email.
> If the supply of compatible flashcarts ever dries up, it will definitely get harder, though hopefully there will be more software exploits discovered by then.
another area of research is many flashcarts are actually obfuscation around FPGA and integrated flash perhaps if there was more interest a design could be produced in the spirit of open-hardware sans Nintendo property.
> Dolphin emulates old hardware, that is not produced anymore. They also don't seem that worried about NDS and 3DS emulation and jailbreaking for that matter.
dolphin was able to boot and play some wii games relatively in the middle of commercial sale [2009-2010] so not a rule either.
> But we are also taking about tools that are used for piracy >90% of the time.
guessing guns manufactures should be liable given the mass shootings in certain trigger-happy places.
> I think the emulator developers really do need to consider actually doing something to combat piracy in the long-term,
surprised that nintendo has not attempted to get dolphin shutdown, with all past attempts of negotiation between third-party developers and big companies [e.g nintendo] have gotten nowhere what do you suggest?
they have hired some homebrew developers in past under some reasonable terms [e.g nda that expires after given time] but guessing well informed actions got overrun by corporate protectionist bullshit.
For 'Linux ISOs' some of the decline was bandwidth getting cheaper for mirror hosts, meaning that in place of P2P seeders there are now well-connected mirrors that are not 'bandwidth handicapped' in comparison to the past
even if this case did not directly set a precedent against emulation the mere risk of a repeat of this case with the same outcome is not exactly encouraging to the prospect of someone forking the projects at issue and restarting development.