Apparently Nintendo has had its legal department quite busy after the leak of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the new game of the franchise installment and that is being played on PC emulators, since long before its release. Release this May 12.
And as reported by GBAtemp, the company has taken steps to withdraw a major project linked to the preservation of video games, by sending legal documents, such as cease and desist letters, in order to stop the development and distribution of Lockpick. This system allows users to extract unique keys from legally purchased Switch games, and use them as ROMs to be emulated on PC.
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It should be noted that the emulation of console games such as Nintendo’s is legal as long as you use your own games. However, despite the fact that the team behind Lockpick does not distribute ROMs, Nintendo argues that the methods it uses to extract the keys infringe its intellectual property rights, since circumventing its copy protection systems violates the Digital Millennium Copyright. United States Act.
So because of all this, the developers of Lockpick have put aside the development of this software because of this legal mess with Nintendo, which has had the side effect that the creators of Skyline, a Switch emulator for Android, also announced that They will stop this project to avoid problems with the company. Information that has been delivered on their site, where they indicate: “It is with great sadness that we bring you this news. Nintendo has recently issued a copyright complaint against Lockpick RCM that will likely take effect on Monday, Lockpick is a critical part of legally transferring Switch keys. They claim that it circumvents their copy protection (TPMs) and therefore violates their copyrights.”
“We are in a position where we are potentially infringing your copyright by continuing to develop our project, Skyline, by dumping keys from our own Switches,” the Skyline developers said.
A new blow for the emulation of Nintendo on PC, which, as we indicated, is not illegal if you do it with roms of your own copies, for which you paid and that you play on a computer, for example, to have better graphic quality and more frames. per second, which is a legal loophole that apparently continues to bother the industry giant too much, since it continues to legally attack this method.
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