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isityettime • yesterday at 11:59 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

> > Nintendo has no legal entitlement for their business plan to work financially.

> Their lawyers will craft it. See ya!

The EFF actually coined a term for this in its analyses of the impact of the DMCA: "Felony Contempt of Business Model". Of course, when they wrote those words they expected the very phrase to constitute a kind of reductio ad absurdum.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/felony-contempt-busine...

Obviously privileging arbitrary business models over others isn't one of the legitimate purposes of the law. So what makes you think there's a public interest in supporting Nintendo's business model beyond what existing laws, which do not prohibit emulation or even the sale of compatible consoles, already do?