Okay but they still need to distribute it if they want others to use it. And you don’t reach a lot of people through sneakernet alone. Nintendo will just shut down every place the software gets distributed. Then no legitimate site wants to touch that with a ten yard stick.
I wouldn’t be so hopeless. If this is the only available choice - they’d find a way or will ask their more savvy friends. Like, here even a couple years ago it was unthinkable that every second person would learn to circumvent censorship - yet here we are. Sometimes life forces you to.
Okay but they still need to distribute it if they want others to use it. And you don’t reach a lot of people through sneakernet alone. Nintendo will just shut down every place the software gets distributed. Then no legitimate site wants to touch that with a ten yard stick.
Selfhosted git on .onion or .i2p.
What percentage of the gamers that you know would just be able to find and download an emulator from a git repo hosted on .onion or .i2p?
For me, that’s just me. None of my gamer buddies would put in that effort, they’d just buy a product or play a game from steam.
I think we’re still a long way from privacy focused protocols being mainstream in the way the web has become in the last 15 years.
I wouldn’t be so hopeless. If this is the only available choice - they’d find a way or will ask their more savvy friends. Like, here even a couple years ago it was unthinkable that every second person would learn to circumvent censorship - yet here we are. Sometimes life forces you to.
Torrent on an anon vps or .onion and tech savvy users spread it to the clearnet. I think that’s how drm crackers do it.