Consoles live and die by their exclusives. Xbox hasn’t had the draw that Sony and Nintendo have.
Gamepass is still a good deal, but I wouldn’t buy a console for it.
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The Bleem case is a separate issue from creating a backup copy protected by DRM
You should check out Beehaw. It’s built on the Lemmy platform but the owners and mods are very much trying to build what you describe.
The law is all about those technicalities.
I don’t agree with any of that noise around the DMCA for the record. I feel like we effectively lost our right to archival copies.
On a PC, what you said about copying the DRM along with the data is largely true. It is possible sometimes to copy the DRM and reproduce the image with the DRM intact. It also might not be depending upon the copy protection mechanism. Commercial video DVDs used to employ tricks with the storage sector that made it almost impossible to properly copy by a standard computer disc drive. You could get around this with additional program like AnyDVD, but that was only available for sale outside the USA because of the fact that it allowed you to bypass DRM.
And like you said, the content can be encrypted. Decrypting it is, IIRC, considered bypassing DRM - at least in the USA.
Again, I don’t agree that this is how things should be, but the legality of emulation is complicated depending upon what we’re talking about emulating.
Which is why I ignore their constant pleas for money. They can be objective, but I’m tired of news organizations sanewashing this shit.
I would be interested in that case if you find it. I spend a lot of time thinking about emulation and the surrounding stuff.
The emulation itself is legal, assuming you’re not using any copyrighted code, BIOS, etc. to make work.
The backup copy of your game that you need can be made legally as well, but in the USA, if the source contains a form of DRM, then you cannot legally make a copy.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
In the USA, it is illegal to make a backup copy of any of your media when the original contains any form of DRM.
On any media where DRM wasn’t used, you’re okay to create a backup copy.
The law is different everywhere though.
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