• pipe01@programming.dev
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    13 hours ago

    What I don’t get is why emulator devs don’t develop completely anonymously, you can’t shut them down if you don’t know who they are

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      12 hours ago

      Okay but they still need to distribute it if they want others to use it. And you don’t reach a lot of people through sneakernet alone. Nintendo will just shut down every place the software gets distributed. Then no legitimate site wants to touch that with a ten yard stick.

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        7 hours ago

        Torrent on an anon vps or .onion and tech savvy users spread it to the clearnet. I think that’s how drm crackers do it.

      • Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        9 hours ago

        Online handles are still a thing. Most of these devs aren’t known by their legal names in the gaming space at large anyway.