

Look, Bobby, I can get behind this but I don’t go my drug dealer when I’m feeling sick.
The Universe’s greatest distributor of Spice. Cult of the Shrike member.
Old .world account: https://lemmy.world/u/SpiceDealer. Do not interact with that account. Leaving it up only for archival/backup purposes.
Look, Bobby, I can get behind this but I don’t go my drug dealer when I’m feeling sick.
Emulators. Are. Legal.
This was settled with the Sony/Bleem debacle. Bleem only provided the software by which one could emulate PSX games but never the ISO files themselves. Those files could only be provided by the end user regardless of how they obtained them. Sony, of course, couldn’t give less of a shit and sued them anyways. Judges, however, took Bleem’s side on the basis that no copyright infringement had been committed on their behalf. Although Bleem would ultimately win ever lawsuit brought against them, the sheer size of the legal costs led to their closure which makes you wonder if that was Sony’s endgame the whole time.
Here’s a video by Nerrel about the legality of emulation. It’s from 2020 but it is still relevant.
Finally, an OS worthy of my “alternatively sourced” content library!
R.I.P Hellraiser. May you rock out in the afterlife with Dio, Lemmy, Cliff and all the others we have lost. Forgive us for though you said ‘No More Tears’ we shed this loss. Rest easy.