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Nintendo Wipes Out 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago* by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] danielfm123@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If emulators are not illegal, why Microsoft take them down? This should be illegal, the same way information was censored in COVID times.

I hate big tech.

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

It's not because they're emulators, it's because they're including Nintendo's cryptographic keys.

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 3 weeks ago*

Where? Where are they? Point to the file. Oh wait you can't because they're not there.

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