How is that Nvidia can ban reverse engineering and for example Nintendo can't. I'm sure they would love to just say in EULA that sorry but reverse engineering Switch is prohibited therefore every emulator is illegal

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 months ago

Nintendo firing all its lawyers atm because no one suggested this yet

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Well, maybe they can't. This clause would probably not hold up in a lot of countries/courts. OTOH it would in others. It might take years of litigation to figure out.

So, if you want to work on this kind of thing, better consult a lawyer first. It will have a chilling effect and that's something.

US situation: https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/reverse-engineering-faq