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The Switch Will NEVER be the Same: Nintendo Switch Dumper Review (youtu.be)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Then you punish the actual criminals, not everyone.

There are plenty of us who prefer the steam deck over the switch. You can pull the encryption keys from your own console and the roms from your own games and play them there. There are numerous tutorials to do so.

People use knives to stab people. Should we ban all knives?

You're being hyperbolic and narrow-minded.

Backing up a game is legal. End of story. There's plenty of legal precedent there already. So you're literally arguing that the law is not the law because of your emotional feelings.

You want to change that? Change the law. Stop being a jackass on social here tho spouting bad takes when you just don't agree.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

People use knives to stab people. Should we ban all knives?

Actually in plenty countries, plenty types of knives are not legal to carry because their primary purpose (of the type) is in attacking people, which is never a valid reason to have it as a result.

Much like how with the US exception, most industrialized nations don't allow free ownership of most guns.

So if anything, that's a bad argument to make as there's a lot of precedent suggesting banning such dumping devices entirely might be warranted. I wouldn't support that, but the argument you try to use as a defense exactly supports a ban.
Mind you, the ban would be on buying/owning/importing such a device, not in the actual dumping. As in, you are legally allowed to dump your games, only you cannot acquire the device to do so as it has been shown to be primarily meant to be used for illegal purposes (usually this would mean there are privosion so that for scientific/research purposes you can acquire them).

An example would be the R4 import/purchase ban in a few countries.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

So, only knives that have no legitimate purpose other than to cause harm are banned? A switch blade is banned while a filet knife is not. Both knives are equally capable of being tools for murder, but the filet knife can be used in hunting, fishing, and cooking. All legitimate uses. While the switchblade isn’t really feasible in any scenario outside of a fight.

It’s not the presence of illegitimate uses that gives rise to the ban. It’s the absence of legitimate uses.