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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN FEBRUARY 2025?
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 19:40:03 -0000 (UTC)
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 14:38 this Thursday (GMT):
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:20:05 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>
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>
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>>It doesn't help that companies are trying to end emulation, though.
>
> More precisely, they're trying to end emulation they don't control.
> Because pretty much all the major players nowadays rely on emulation
> for their old line-up. 
>
> But regardless of what they (mostly Nintendo) want, emulation is not
> going anywhere. It's been tested repeatedly in court, and so long as
> no copyrighted code is used in the emulator, then they've no legal leg
> to stop its distribution. And emulator developers have gotten VERY
> good about clean-room recreations of hardware functions. Or at least,
> they're gotten really good at dividing their code from any necessary
> copyrighted code (e.g., the BIOS) that the user has to provide
> themselves.
>
> As for the games themselves, well, they've perfect right to police the
> distribution of those... although the cat is waaaaay out of the bag
> for most of those at this point, so it seems comically pointless for
> them to keep chasing it. But I can't fault them their attempts.
>
> (well, usually. Some games are impossible to buy and keeping those out
> of public use for decades seems almost malicious... but a lot of the
> better known stuff still has value (as in, people will pay to play
> them if the games are available) so their shutting down the torrents
> (or however kids distribute the games nowadays) doesn't bother me to
> much.


Hopefully, it stays that way, especially with the spotty coverage and
subscription services.
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