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Dumping games isn't illegal. Honestly them making it almost impossible should be illegal.
dunping games is drm breaking, and depends on which country you live in on whether its legal or not.
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.