Atlus tries, fails to take down Patreon for PS3 emulator via DMCA. Could Persona 5 be heading to PC?

[DonFerrari]

zero129 said:

Captain_Yuri said:

The most interesting thing is this:

"The company appears to have been only partially successful; in a statement posted today on Reddit, a representative of the RPCS3 dev team claims that on Saturday Patreon (but not the dev team) received notice that Atlus had filed a DMCA takedown against the RPCS3 Patreon page."

"Notably, Patreon reportedly pushed back, stating that they believed the emulation group's work fell under fair use and that the emulator itself did not infringe on any of Atlus' copyrights."

So the DMCA did not even reach the Dev teams but instead, Altus tried to go above them and try to get Patreon to take down the RPCS3 Patreon thing instead. But the website decided to push back on Altus instead of just complying with the DMCA. The dev team did end up removing any Persona 5 related content however but apart from that, it is interesting how the site was even defending emulation and ended up being successful.

Yeah Atlus has pretty much done no damage at all as fans will show the game running on PC using RPCS3 just like how it is Cemu (I believe this is why Nintendo wasnt able to go after Cemu in the same way since the fans do the marketing for Exzap).

Plus like one of the RPCS3 devs said in the statement "Whatever happened, we ask everyone to be nice. RPCS3 as a project and the Patreon itself are safe. And whatever people may wish, there's no way to stop any playable game from being executed on the emulator. Blacklisting the game? RPCS3 is open-source, any attempt would easily be reversed. Attempting to take down the project? At the time of this post, this and many other games were already playable to their full extent, and again, RPCS3 is and will always be an open-source project."

The whole project is open source.

It's funny that the way they put basically they are telling that piracy on it is open as well.