Most of you will say that the succesor to eMule is BitTorrent as it is the most widely used P2P network today, but there are some things that BitTorrent lacks and eMule provides. The most notorious for me are the following:...
tbh it's not really necessary today because there are so many ways to share files. Additionally, the distributed network has major disadvantages:
No meaningful reputation. If you download software from a file-sharing service you're taking a huge risk.
Ease of use. It's a pain in the ass to new users, which means it doesn't thrive the way it needs to.
And the advantages aren't what they once were. There's so many sites nowadays and it's so easy to set one up that being resistant to takedowns isn't worth the trade-off.
As the article mentions, they're releasing the Switch successor soon. I suspect the real reason for this push is to try and scare people off from developing an emulator for that one, at least during the lifetime of the console - it's a bit late to try and kill Switch emulation given that nearly fully-functional emulators already exist.
I mean, the alternative is Ryujinx, which Nintendo has for some reason ignored for now.
(Ryujinx's devs are much more cautious about things like banning any references to piracy in their discord and avoiding anything that could look like getting money in exchange for access, both of which may have given them less legal exposure.)
Gog-games has returned; if you missed it, they went private for a while, then announced they were coming back in a week. They seem to have come back early.
One thing that leaps out at me about this ruling is that courts understand the internet a lot better nowadays. A decade or so ago Sony would have probably gotten away with the argument that Cox profited from the users' piracy; nowadays judges themselves use the internet and are going to go "lolno, they probably would have been...
They could have easily crammed the Steam Deck full of stuff to make it hard to use for piracy - locking down everything, making it usable only to play games you legitimately own, force you to go through who knows what hoops in order to play games on it. That's what Nintendo or Apple or most other companies do....
Where is the true succesor to eMule?
Most of you will say that the succesor to eMule is BitTorrent as it is the most widely used P2P network today, but there are some things that BitTorrent lacks and eMule provides. The most notorious for me are the following:...
Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8,000 emulator-related DMCA takedowns ( www.engadget.com )
WTF - Rest in peace... I hope no one has to pay any legal fees. Wish you all the best!
Gog-games is back.
Gog-games has returned; if you missed it, they went private for a while, then announced they were coming back in a week. They seem to have come back early.
Court blocks $1 billion copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users’ piracy ( arstechnica.com )
One thing that leaps out at me about this ruling is that courts understand the internet a lot better nowadays. A decade or so ago Sony would have probably gotten away with the argument that Cox profited from the users' piracy; nowadays judges themselves use the internet and are going to go "lolno, they probably would have been...
I feel like the Steam Deck is the best proof of Gabe Newell's quote that "piracy is a service issue."
They could have easily crammed the Steam Deck full of stuff to make it hard to use for piracy - locking down everything, making it usable only to play games you legitimately own, force you to go through who knows what hoops in order to play games on it. That's what Nintendo or Apple or most other companies do....