We want to keep bringing you titles like Persona 5. We appreciate the awareness generated by the emulation community for Persona 5 and know that it is a fantastic example of how much people are loving our game. And while we don’t have anything to announce today, we are listening! For now, the best way to experience Persona 5 is on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3. We understand that many Persona fans would love to see a PC version. We don’t want their first experiences to be framerate drops, or crashes, or other issues that can crop up in emulation that we have not personally overseen. We believe that our fans best experience our titles (like Persona 5) on the actual platforms for which they are developed. We settled upon this action for two reasons: 'You might have heard earlier today that we issued a DMCA takedown notice involving emulation developer group RPCS3 and their Patreon page. Today, Atlus confirmed the story with the following statement, titled 'ATLUS and Emulation:' While not swayed by this argument, Patreon discussed the issue with the RPCS3 team, who scrubbed any mention of Persona 5 from Patreon and their website. Atlus alleged that, in order to make Persona 5 work on the emulator, Atlus' digital rights management (DRM) just be circumvented, and that the page describes how to dump a disc into a file readable by the emulator. Patreon denied the initial request from Atlus, based on Atlus not making a cogent argument for how their copyright was being infringed upon by the PlayStation 3 emulator, and specifically that Patreon page. The DMCA takedown has been massively criticized in recent years as easily abusable and unnecessarily heavy-handed.

In a modern era and a modern context, DMCA takedowns are a strong and commonly used tool for copyright holders to remove videos that infringe on their copyrights, or that they simply do not like, as was the case of Firewatch developer Campo Santo taking down videos made by youtuber Pewdiepie after he streamed himself uttering a racial slur. Patreon declined their request.ĭMCA stands for Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a 1992 copyright law that dramatically extended the rights and reach of copyright holders. The RPG publisher declared that the project was infringing on their copyrights by making Persona 5 playable on the PC, which they do not believe should be allowed, according to the RPCS3 team. The RPCS3 team explained that, on September 23rd, they received a DMCA takedown notice for the project's Patreon from Atlus. To be clear, this did not necessarily limit itself to any mention of playing Persona 5 without purchasing, but rather all information on it in any way interacting with the emulator. This included any mention of getting the game to run, tweaks to have it run better, or anything that implied Persona 5 could be played anywhere other than its commercially released copies on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 hardware. Last night, the team working on the C++ emulator designed to let people play PlayStation 3 games on PC scrubbed all mentions of Persona 5 from their site and forums.

Said, no further action is planned at the moment.'Ītlus have decided to declare war on a PlayStation 3 emulator, the open-source RPCS3, over its ability to play Persona 5.

Persona 5, including methods of circumvention, that we took issue with. 'It isn’t the emulator itself we object to, it is the use of UPDATE: We reached out to Atlus' senior PR manager Jacob Nahin for comment on the story.

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