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 - Why is Dolphin shipping with the Common Key instead of asking users to provide it? → Who knows! This decision was made around 15 years ago. It's easy to say with hindsight "why do you do things differently", but back then this was a fairly new situation. I wouldn't be surprised if soon we get contributors to the project that were born after this decision was made :) 3 comments
- Is Dolphin at risk? → I don't think the project is more at risk than in the last 15 years (pretty sure I'm jinxing it). It took Valve literally poking NoA legal for this takedown to happen. For all the shit people are giving Nintendo, I think they've been generally good to their emulation communities. Hopefully this continues! And (probably) final update in this thread: PC Gamer have updated their article after talking to an IP lawyer: > "I would characterize this NOT as a DMCA take down notice and instead as a warning shot that the software, Dolphin, if released on Steam would (in Nintendo’s view) violate the DMCA," says attorney Kellen Voyer of Voyer Law, which specializes in intellectual property and technology law. Looks like at least one lawyer shares my analysis :-) |
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- Why not change that and not ship the Common Key?
→ Maybe the current devs will. Personally, I don't think it's useful or likely to change anything. Anti-circumvention is about providing a technical mean to bypass copy protection. If you think Dolphin violates this, the common key isn't the problem, the whole "decrypting Wii discs" feature is the problem.