Like "It's the HOMEBREW channel. Not to be used for playing copyrighted software."? I mean, I appreciate that they want to play fair with other open source projects and developers, but isn't the entire emulation community essentially "built on lies and copyright infringement"?

[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Any pirate with a decent bone in their body will respect FLOSS license requirements, as they're mostly there to weaponize the copyright system against proprietary software devs.

That's fundamentally different to how corporations use copyright law. When you fuck over free software you're fucking over the people who're fighting fire with fire.

Lastly, many emulator/homebrew devs specifically rip their own ROMs and dont get involved in illegal distribution of ROMs to keep their projects legal. Lot easier to stick on a resume that way.

[–] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 0 points 1 month ago

Don't get me wrong, I think we're mostly in agreement. Though I'm not sure how big a portion of pirating is done by the self-respecting sort.

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