![]() ![]() ![]() And while that key has been in the Dolphin code base since 2009, "no one has really cared," the team writes. The Dolphin Team notes that the Wii Common Key has been freely shared across the Internet since its initial discovery and publication in 2008. ![]() "We don't think that this incident should change anyone's view of either company." A legal defenseĭespite the disappointing result for the Steam release, the Dolphin team is adamant that "we do not believe that Dolphin is in any legal danger." That's despite the emulator's inclusion of the Wii Common Key, which could run afoul of the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions (as we discussed with some lawyers when the story first broke). "As for Nintendo, this incident just continues their existing stance towards emulation," the post continues. But given Nintendo's long-held stance on emulation, we find Valve's requirement for us to get approval from Nintendo for a Steam release to be impossible. Instead, Valve reached out to Nintendo to ask about the planned Dolphin release, at which point a Nintendo lawyer cited the DMCA in asking Valve to take down the page.Īt that point, the Dolphin team says, Valve "told us that we had to come to an agreement with Nintendo in order to release on Steam. The Dolphin team also takes pains to note that this decision was not the result of an official DMCA notice sent by Nintendo. "In the end, Valve is the one running the Steam storefront, and they have the right to allow or disallow anything they want on said storefront for any reason." "Valve ultimately runs the store and can set any condition they wish for software to appear on it," the team wrote in a blog post on Thursday. This week, after consulting with a lawyer, the team says it has decided to abandon its Steam distribution plans altogether. Further Reading The solid legal theory behind Nintendo’s new emulator takedown effortA few months ago, the developers behind the Wii/GameCube emulator Dolphin said they were indefinitely postponing a planned Steam release, after Steam-maker Valve received a request from Nintendo to take down the emulator's "coming soon" page. ![]()
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