Nintendo is going after Steam

Nintendo has sent Steam AKA Valve a DMCA Takedown for Dolphin Emulator
oh hello there.

[eoingeorge]

nintendo trying to go 10 minutes without taking legal action on anything:

[jmtradbr]

The problem goes a little deeper because Dolphin messed up putting keys on the emulator. So they need to remove it to make legal again.

[bradenmorgan]

Nintendo trying to go 5 seconds without destroying an entire orphanage because there's a kid named Luigi:

[KingJRool.]

As soon as I heard dolphin was coming to steam, I knew this would happen

[GameMaker_]

Remember when Nintendo tried to prevent Blockbuster from allowing people to rent videogames in the U.S because it was illegal in Japan?

Nintendo tried everything they could short of taking legal action, but Blockbuster still ultimately was able to collect the NES cartridges and allow people to rent them.

[bluethefoxmusic]

Nintendo not to start a lawsuit challenge IMPOSSIBLE

[memegod]

Nintendo would've probably copyright struck the Mario movie, if they didn't remember at the last second that they helped work on it

[ThatArab]

I can’t anymore bro this is hilarious seeing what Nintendo would do for 30 year old games being pirated even though dolphins has nothing to do with pirating

[Bro]

it should be noted that its now being reported that Nintendo most likely did not file a DMCA but rather Valve contacted Nintendo regarding Dolphin on Steam and Nintendo threw a fit about it
there's also reports regarding Wii encryption keys being present in the Dolphin emulator source code which while not 100% illegal is in a very iffy grey area

[mr.sand]

Someone needs to teach Nintendo the difference between emulators and piracy.

[Madmaxgaming]

Don't expect this to last long. What nintendo is doing is illegal.

[ghosta]

How has Nintendo not been investigated for potentially illegal law practices yet? I swear, they have the Yakuza for a legal team.

[AmberCommentsThings]

I am convinced that Nintendo solely believes they'd go bankrupt if they tried to not be one of the worst companies in gaming for 5 seconds...

[inkayy]

Nintendos legal team must be really bored

[XperimentorEES]

If any gaming company would fight nintendo it'd probably be valve, they also have a massive fanbase funding them till the cows come home as well as vested interest in game preservation. While I'd like to see it happen, it'd probably be like godzilla vs king kong situation, no matter who wins the landscape will be ruined. However I absolutely bet it's a scare tactic to see if they can bully a major competitor into keeping their monopoly.

[Szuremn]

Me: *wears Mario costume*
Nintendo: do you like Mario?
Me: yes
Nintendo: do you like getting sued?

[mrshowell]

After Pizza Tower , of course Nintendo wants a piece of that pizza pie.

[LegendTheInkling]

[Duke Nukem beginning theme plays]
If piracy is illegal?
[Theme continues]
Then how come the FBI hasn’t Waco’ed me?
[Sick guitar riff]

[redey]

I think people seem to misunderstand what’s going on here. The Dolphin team (should be) fully within their right to put Dolphin on Steam, as far as I know.

Unfortunately for them, they pushed code onto the Steam release that had decryption keys which I believe are included in the Wii’s BIOS, which would 100% fall under IP if that’s the case. That’s why other emulators such as PCSX2 ask you for a legally obtained BIOS file and will fail to function if you don’t provide it. Who knows why a Dolphin developer thought it’d be a good idea to go around that, and why it hasn’t been fixed at this point as it was mentioned on the GitHub repository in 2020, as seen in Modern Vintage Gamer’s video.

[MediaDroid]

Nintendo VS Steam. The battle of the century