Check what your rights are yourself, specific to your situation. We can’t give you any legal advice all we can say is that you should never accept blanket statements about the legality of emulation. So the very act of “ripping” a copy of a game can land you in hot water. In other places, it’s illegal to circumvent copy-protection measures on media such as video games. Modifying your console to play these backups or using emulation to play them on a PC may also be legal in such places. In some places, it’s legal to make backups of video games that you have purchased.
Different countries and territories have different laws around the legality of emulation. Nintendo thinks they are above the law to spread this "misinformation" as they call it.First, you must make sure that you know the legal rules around emulation wherever you live. The European law clearly states that you are allowed to have copies of games you legally own. 24 hours, it is illegal to download and play a Nintendo ROM from the Internet.Īnd that is what I criticized harshly in a previous post. Therefore, whether you have an authentic game or not, or whether you have possession of a Nintendo ROM for a limited amount of time, i.e. The backup/archival copy exception is a very narrow limitation relating to a copy being made by the rightful owner of an authentic game to ensure he or she has one in the event of damage or destruction of the authentic. It is not a "second copy" rule and is often mistakenly cited for the proposition that if you have one lawful copy of a copyrighted work, you are entitled to have a second copy of the copyrighted work even if that second copy is an infringing copy. There is a good deal of misinformation on the Internet regarding the backup/archival copy exception. If you own a physical copy of Breath of the Wild it could be reasonably argued that making a "backup" copy for personal use is your legal right as an owner of the product.Ĭan I Download a Nintendo ROM from the Internet if I Already Own the Authentic Game? No but it is still illegal to play a copyrighted rom. Would I be a dirty rotten scroundrel for playing the emu?
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