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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is what Nintendo wants people to think. They want you to think hacking your own hardware is synonymous with copyright infringement. And it's categorically not. Just like collecting knives isn't synonymous with committing murder.

I agree that Yuzu was toeing a fine line when they should have instead steered far clear of it and only supported playback of homebrew apps without encryption, but that's not to say they did anything ethically wrong. Backing up your own files shouldn't be a right we lose just because of criminals walking around "wink wink, nudge nudging" each other. Punish the murderers, not the knife sellers.