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  • There are plenty of scams that involve convincing someone to make an uncharacteristically large withdraw or transfer at a bank.

    If a confused looking person shows up to the bank, wanting to withdraw several thousand dollars, there’s a good chance they’re being scammed, and convinced to mail the cash. Having a policy of asking questions in situations like this can save people from losing huge sums of money.

    If you try to buy thousands of dollars of gift cards you’ll be questioned similarly.

    Unless they are maliciously questioning all cash withdrawals, this is a fine policy. They specify over £2000, which is pretty standard.




  • Voting is a popularity contest. Any unpopular opinion community that uses voting to drive the sorting will run into this issue. Genuinely unpopular opinions will be unpopular and thus downvoted, genuinely popular opinions will be downvoted from being clearly unsuited for the community. The opinions that get votes are the ones that many people agree with but think are unpopular. You won’t get unpopular opinions, only popular opinions that people think are a bit spicy.

    This is the cursed problem of unpopular opinion threads on lemmy or reddit. It is unsolvable.

    The fact that the moderators are moderating in a way that maintains the community as it is, is not the main problem as far as I see.






  • Hildegarde@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    4 months ago

    They were making $30k a month from their patreon. That’s enough money to afford a lawyer, and plenty of incentive to defend themselves in court if they genuine believed they weren’t doing anything illegal.

    Their patreon had custom builds of the emulator specifically tailored to run leaked games before release. In their own patreon, yuzu’s developers admitted to having copies of nintendo’s games at a time they could not be legally purchased. They also admitted to profiting from those illegally obtained ROMs for an amount that patreon shares publicly. That is the sort of slam-dunk evidence that would make nintendo’s lawyers salivate.

    This isn’t an unclear situation. Yuzu was legally in the wrong. If this went to trial they would almost assuredly lose even more. If yuzu was doing more piracy there’s no way to hide it during discovery.




  • Hildegarde@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    And yet the project still is up.

    Dolphin has a defense. There is a reverse engineering exemption to the DMCA that Dolphin is likely protected by. Dolphin’s use of the keys might be entirely legal. If this went to court there’s a reasonable chance Dolphin could win. It wouldn’t be a clear-cut case at best.

    The other thing protecting Dolphin is the fact Dolphin does not make money. They do not solicit donations publicly. Nintendo doesn’t have easily citable patreon numbers to add to the damages, nor would Dolphin have the means to pay nintendo even if they won.

    Taking Dolphin to court is a bad idea for nintendo. All risk, no reward. Keeps Dolphin safe unless one of those things changes, like putting it on steam.


  • Hildegarde@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    Ryujinx, Dolphin, Mupen64, Cemu, Visual Boy Advance, BizHawk, RetroArch, Snes9x, Mesen, and others are emulators of Nintendo consoles that have not been taken down by Nintendo.

    There are some important rules to follow if you want to make an emulator. Yuzu made some big mistakes. It’s legal to build an emulator. It’s not legal to profit from encouraging from piracy, or circumventing DRM which is what Yuzu did.