• devtimi@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    212·
    11 months ago

    Tutorials on how to use and install the legal side of emulators are allowed, it’s when you encroach on copyright that things become a problem. Piracy is not allowed.

    Do not post links to sources of copyrighted materials.

    Pictures of your Deck running software never published to PC are questionable. My biggest problem with /r/steamdeck is how it made me feel like I joined a bad faith community by buying the device.

    There are a handful of moderators and we discuss as a group before we take action. I am not the only voice, so you may opt to wait for others to comment.

    • Diurnambule@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
      2·
      11 months ago

      Thanks for the reply.

      I didn’t link to anything, maybe it is because I mentioned two repackers.

      I explained how to combine tools included in the deck (more precisely in package manager ) to be able to get pirated games.

      But I guess that was to close of the border.

  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
    13·
    11 months ago

    I think it’s important for posters to see from the side of mods. I’m not a mod here and speaking out of my butt so please take everything with a grain of salt.

    I am a big advocate of hacking and doing slightly non-acceptable things out of curiosity.

    But I’m also not interested in dealing with legal threats or being pulled into weird scenarios all because one person has a strong opinion about right & wrong.

    When I face that issue, I instead encourage the poster/author to instead create a separate Convo somewhere else that is outside of the responsibility of the mod team. Like, I support your actions but I’m not going to stress over it. Because at the end of the day, I’m just trying to provide a space for the majority and have fun with the convos.

  • Overzeetop@sopuli.xyz
    56·
    11 months ago

    It’s actually kind of funny that emulators, which explicitly violate copyright law in the US as a circumvention measure prohibited by the DMCA as well as infringing for any rom created after the 1920s (ie. all of them) which have not been placed into the public domain, are perfectly fine here because that doesn’t “feel” like piracy since the games are not generating revenue.

    Anyway, you’re almost certainly looking for [email protected] instead of this community. I didn’t even know that community existed until yesterday with the kerfuffle over lemmy.world defederating from dbzer0.com. Streisand effect-ish in a way. Best of luck, and keep a keen eye out for the EIC.

      • Overzeetop@sopuli.xyz
        35·
        11 months ago

        It does seem fairly empty at the moment. TBH, I don’t have enough time to play the games I’ve paid for (or gotten from Epic), but it’s interesting that it’s out there.

        edit: there is about twice the unfederated content on the dbzer0 server compared to what is here on Sopuli (as of this morning) if that matters.