Obviously any "swimming pool" should be manually checked, because there will be false positives no matter what.
Then again, this is France, and they might be incompetent enough to automate the whole thing.
Your NES game analogy is completely wrong. There is no licensing agreement for physical games, which is something I've had to beat into people's heads repeatedly.
Although this is a significantly different situation from the Big House/Slippi incident, it still comes down to the fact the game is being streamed for profit.
Nintendo has the right to shut down streams. They do not have the right to shut down the tournament altogether, although with the way the tourney scene works nowadays, unstreamed tournaments are nearly unheard of.
The Zelda series has an interesting history with hacked saves. The first major Wii exploit was distributed in the form of a Zelda: Twilight Princess save file.
EarthBound's soundtrack is a sampling nightmare, which was allegedly the reason the game took so long to be rereleased. (I say "allegedly" because Nintendo has denied this.)
Slippi is not a mod for the game; it's a mod for the emulator, which was legally reverse-engineered. This means Slippi does not include any of Nintendo's IP.
Nintendo knows this, which is why their legal threat was against The Big House (for the monetized Twitch stream) rather than the developers of Slippi.
Today is September 3, 2022. Did your registration expire today?
The DLC is just a sidenote in all this. The reason people were upset is that the games themselves would become unplayable.
Obviously any "swimming pool" should be manually checked, because there will be false positives no matter what. Then again, this is France, and they might be incompetent enough to automate the whole thing.
The big problem here is that it's protected under fair use; the law shouldn't be under copyright at all.
Legislators need to be held accountable for knowingly attempting to pass unconstitutional laws.
Mooooooooo.
Elizabeth Warren went off the deep end a long time ago. I'd say she's committing political suicide, but... Democrat in Massachusetts...
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Your NES game analogy is completely wrong. There is no licensing agreement for physical games, which is something I've had to beat into people's heads repeatedly.
Although this is a significantly different situation from the Big House/Slippi incident, it still comes down to the fact the game is being streamed for profit.
Nintendo has the right to shut down streams. They do not have the right to shut down the tournament altogether, although with the way the tourney scene works nowadays, unstreamed tournaments are nearly unheard of.
The Zelda series has an interesting history with hacked saves. The first major Wii exploit was distributed in the form of a Zelda: Twilight Princess save file.
EarthBound's soundtrack is a sampling nightmare, which was allegedly the reason the game took so long to be rereleased. (I say "allegedly" because Nintendo has denied this.)
Of course, the most obvious reason not to hotlink images is that you might end up Goatse'd.
All the other claims are basically throwing stuff out and seeing if it works, but the DMCA agent claim is huge.
Typo: "This week in 20011"
These days, are there any crowded theaters to yell "fire" in?
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It appears you dropped this
Emotes have come back under discussion recently because of the PogChamp incident; this seems like the perfect time to bring up this case study.
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EU law is irrelevant here; none of the relevant parties are European.
Slippi the Red Herring
Slippi is not a mod for the game; it's a mod for the emulator, which was legally reverse-engineered. This means Slippi does not include any of Nintendo's IP.
Nintendo knows this, which is why their legal threat was against The Big House (for the monetized Twitch stream) rather than the developers of Slippi.
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Just the one part.