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CladInShadows on 02 May 2017
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SvennoJ said:
CladInShadows said:

I feel I can make the argument with a little more weight behind it because I'm not actually getting something I didn't pay for. If all I'm doing is giving the impression that piracy is 0.0001% more prominent than it is, then I can sleep at night with that on my conscience.

I think your analogy is placing a much greater weight on my action than is the reality of downloading an ISO. IF there is a download counter (and I'm having a hard time finding any that are visible to the public), then I'm raising it by 1 when there's thousands or 10s of thousands or even 100s of thousands of downloads already occurring. The "damage" you talk about is already done. And it's indirect damage. It's a singular count on a site that is really only going to be accessed by people that are already familiar with (and are considering) piracy. My 1 download isn't doing anything. You can make it into something larger than it is and try and spin it a different way, but it isn't harming the industry.

True.

But I'm not placing greater weight on your action, just saying that the weight is equal to anyone else donwloading an ISO. Every single one is minor and insignificant on its own. Just semantiscs. Nothing to lose sleep over :)


Actually that bittorrent with the counter I ran into was from a Reddit, now taking a closer look at it I'm amazed at the hypocrisy. Apparently Cemu has DRM build in and you only get access to Botw if you're a patron. Which can be circumvented by running it off-line which reduces the speed the emulator runs at. I'm not making this shit up:

Hi, when I try to launch the emulator, it appears for a millisecond then it disappears. Now it just doesn't launch at all. What can I do? EDIT: Just fixed my problem. version 1.7.3d downloaded from this subreddit didn't work as it requires a serial number given to the patrons of the patreon page.

Is it running for you now? If so what processes did you do?

Ah, I had to download the official public version from the website unfortunately.

Quick way to get around the DRM built into CEMU--disable your internet while you're booting it up so it can't dial home, BUT be aware when you do that, CEMU runs in 'slow' mode. It dipped MK8 to around 35-40fps, when I can run it at 60FPS otherwise. I'm on a 4670k @ 4.4GHz, GTX 1080, 16GB RAM.

I have the same problem. Your 1.7.3d version does not work. <> must have got cemu 1.7.3d to run by getting it from the patreon page. 1.7.2 is what's available to non-patreon users and it doesn't run BotW or support the type of update you need to use if you have a .wud for the game.

What a bunch of hypocrits.

Yeah, I get what you're saying. I'll just point out again that I'm not actually downloading anything I didn't pay for.  So while I am just one extra number like everyone else, my action has considerably less impact due to the purchase aspect alone (assuming others didn't buy the game like I did).  But anyways, I know what I'm doing is illegal. But I also know what I'm doing is ethically sound, as far as my ethics are concerned. So I'm fine with it. I don't need to do it much anymore anyways unless I have an issue ripping my discs.

That CEMU thing reminds me of a couple of the early NES and SNES emulators, where the free version didn't have sound, while the paid version did.  That was quickly done away with, though, once the big names like Nesticle and SNES9X hit the market.  Technically, they're just offering "perks" to their patrons, but it still smells fishy. I would hope that these features don't remain forever behind a pay wall, but who knows?  My interest in Wii U emulation is pretty much null at this point since my PC isn't quite up to snuff.