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CTOnews.com June 1, the dolphin simulator was recently removed from Steam, and the development team also announced that it would not return. However, according to foreign media Gamesradar reports, this decision is not Nintendo's own request, but V's own decision.

Previously, the dolphin simulator development team released warning letters, but according to PC Gamer's consultation with lawyers, this is not a DMCA (Millennium Digital copyright Act) deletion ban, but only a warning, meaning that "if a dolphin simulator is released on Steam, it will violate DMCA."

Delroth, a former dolphin simulator developer, shared his views accordingly. As far as he knows, the V Society took the initiative to contact Nintendo to ask if it was appropriate to launch a dolphin simulator on Steam. Nintendo gave a negative answer and said it would violate DMCA because dolphin simulators can use "unauthorized keys and crack ROM before or at run time."

The V Society decided to remove the dolphin simulator on its own and forwarded the response to the dolphin simulator's development team. Due to carelessness in handling the email, delroth, who has left the development team, also received this email.

The point, he said, is that Nintendo didn't take the initiative to take action against the dolphin simulator or its developers. Nintendo just responded to questions from the V Society. In fact, Nintendo has never taken any action against the dolphin simulator before. Although Nintendo has always been adamant about pirated software and simulated old games, it usually does not take action against simulators, but instead issues warnings or sues against websites or people who provide pirated ROM.

It is worth noting that Nintendo seems to have ignored the existence of popular Switch simulators, and even before the release of Legend of Zelda: tears of the Kingdom, many players had already used these simulators to play the game first.

In addition, delroth said, this incident shows that few people are aware of the vagueness of US copyright law, and no one knows whether the console simulator may actually infringe the DMCA anti-circumvention clause. Lawyers, courts, simulator developers, Nintendo, no one can give a clear answer. "but everyone who cares about this knows that it is still and has been running in a gray area."

CTOnews.com has previously reported that a Nintendo spokesman said, "Nintendo is committed to protecting the hard work and creativity of video game engineers and developers." The simulator illegally bypassed Nintendo's protections and ran illegally copied games. Using illegal simulators or illegally copied games can damage development and eventually stifle innovation. Nintendo respects the intellectual property rights of other companies and expects them to do the same. "

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