I don’t understand why you are downvoted, we might not like it, but it’s true. Circumventing drm is not legal.
The DMCA states: No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
And defines circumventing as: (A) to “circumvent a technological measure” means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner; and
(B) a technological measure “effectively controls access to a work” if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.
Which means that it doesn’t even need to be good drm, a rot13 ‘encryption’ is good enough.
Violations of the DMCA can be criminal and can result in prison time.
Dumping a game cart or digital download on switch cannot be done without circumventing drm, and is therefore, unequivocally illegal, unfortunately.
some people vote by emotion which I don’t mind downvotes by any means, as long as theyre aware that thats kinda what reality is. Im pro dumping and extremely pro emulation, but im not gonna sit here and say that circumventing drm is legal in every country in the world.
There is no way to access the dump without circumventing the switch itself’s encryption, as you need to do it on a modified switch and as far as I know the exemptions provided for DMCA are for scenarios where it’s effectively impossible or extremely difficult to use the software in a non infringing way, (other exemptions are generally quite specific) which could be argued for out of circulation consoles and games, but would not stand for an in production generally available console and it’s games.
I’ve never heard of exemptions for format shifting exemption for circumventing copy protection. I’ve heard it argued in the case of things like ripping a CD that has no copy protection in place though.
You aren’t “circumventing the switches encryption” whatever that means. You’re putting it in debug mode. Not to mention it being illegal to softmod your own hardware is insane.
And the same format shifting exemption applies to blueray which does have DRM.
I don’t understand why you are downvoted, we might not like it, but it’s true. Circumventing drm is not legal.
The DMCA states: No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
And defines circumventing as: (A) to “circumvent a technological measure” means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner; and
(B) a technological measure “effectively controls access to a work” if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.
Which means that it doesn’t even need to be good drm, a rot13 ‘encryption’ is good enough.
Violations of the DMCA can be criminal and can result in prison time.
Dumping a game cart or digital download on switch cannot be done without circumventing drm, and is therefore, unequivocally illegal, unfortunately.
some people vote by emotion which I don’t mind downvotes by any means, as long as theyre aware that thats kinda what reality is. Im pro dumping and extremely pro emulation, but im not gonna sit here and say that circumventing drm is legal in every country in the world.
It is legal to circumvent DRM in certain cases. Format shifting is one such case.
also iirc it doesnt cirvumvent the drm. it dumps the whole cart, including the drm itself.
There is no way to access the dump without circumventing the switch itself’s encryption, as you need to do it on a modified switch and as far as I know the exemptions provided for DMCA are for scenarios where it’s effectively impossible or extremely difficult to use the software in a non infringing way, (other exemptions are generally quite specific) which could be argued for out of circulation consoles and games, but would not stand for an in production generally available console and it’s games.
I’ve never heard of exemptions for format shifting exemption for circumventing copy protection. I’ve heard it argued in the case of things like ripping a CD that has no copy protection in place though.
You aren’t “circumventing the switches encryption” whatever that means. You’re putting it in debug mode. Not to mention it being illegal to softmod your own hardware is insane.
And the same format shifting exemption applies to blueray which does have DRM.