nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 years agoTears Of The Kingdom Was Pirated 1 Million Times, Nintendo Claims In Lawsuitkotaku.comexternal-linkmessage-square156fedilinkarrow-up1230arrow-down19
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minus-squareOmega@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·2 years agoThat’s technically legal right? Kinda like ripping a CD?
minus-squaremeteokr@community.adiquaints.moelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 years agoIANAL, depending on your jurisdiction, downloading someone else’s backup of something can be illegal. Backing up your own physical copy and using that is very often legal.
minus-squareRightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 years agoUsually its the uploading or distributing thats the illegal part.
minus-square520@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 years agoRipping the game from your own system/cartridge is legal, downloading an identical copy from the internet is not.
minus-square520@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agohttps://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-digital.html
That’s technically legal right? Kinda like ripping a CD?
IANAL, depending on your jurisdiction, downloading someone else’s backup of something can be illegal. Backing up your own physical copy and using that is very often legal.
Usually its the uploading or distributing thats the illegal part.
Ripping the game from your own system/cartridge is legal, downloading an identical copy from the internet is not.
Source?
The DMCA.
https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-digital.html