Bilb!

The low resolution screenshot they include in that article is hilarious. It’s impossible to tell what I’m looking at.

I suppose it’s true decrypting the files is not so much “circumventing” the encryption as it is… decrypting it, but I think for the purpose of the DMCA it’s the process of “circumventing” Nintendo’s attempt to keep unauthorized people from playing these games that it’s referencing. Encrypting those files is a part of their DRM scheme, so they say undoing it without their authorization violates the law. That’s my understanding of their claim, anyway, and part of the basis for their previous DMCA takedown notices to github. I don’t think this specific claim has ever been tested in court.

Yeah, empty shelves in a store like this are generally hard to find!

In the 90s, camcorders were a relative novelty and nobody had any reason to be anxious about being filmed because there was no way to easily share video with millions of strange people maliciously for clout. If you were caught doing something funny, you might appear on TV after signing a release. (e.g. America’s Funniest Home Videos) Sharing video on the internet was a practical technical impossibility, and people had mostly private lives. You’re right it’s not really the glasses, it’s the internet and social media. I wouldn’t be surprised if the first person POV provided by glasses makes content like that more compelling, though, and thus more common.

People covertly filmed for malicious reasons even back then of course, but it was not generally made available to the masses.

If I have a point, it’s that I don’t think this is evidence that we’re more fucked up now than we were then, just that technology has enabled new kinds of abuse that were inconceivable back then.

I don’t think taking money for making an emulator is the problem per se, and it’s unlikely it had anything to do with why Nintendo took action against them. It’s… everything else you mention. The brazen, unquestionable, open piracy, and the publicity of being able to play a game that hadn’t even been released as you say. And the DMCA in the US makes switch emulation itself a more viable legal target, because in this form it circumvents Nintendo’s encryption like the article you link points out. You can sell an NES emulator, no problem.

Sure, but unless there’s a surplus of supply they’ll sell their full capacity without doing that. I hope there is, though, or at least that demand for RAM chips will go down soon.

I’m not sure what would stop them from charging whatever they can, which will be a lot.

More competitors should create more downward pressure on what memory manufacturers can charge, but even with new entrants there still aren’t that many.

People on Mastodon have been like that forever, though. I just thought it was a tendency that came from that culture.

It’s funny, since posting that comment I’ve tested the game controller thing again and it now works just fine.

JavaScript and rendering performance as well as USB hardware access if you’re doing something like playing a browser based emulator. Pretty niche, but it’s a usecase that is much more poorly served by Firefox.