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Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’ (www.theverge.com)
submitted 5 months ago by flork@lemy.lol to c/emulation@lemmy.ml
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[-] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 28 points 5 months ago

This shit angers me so much. I know 10 years or less Nintendo will probably use the emulator to ship a remake a breath of the wild or some shit the same way the use current emulators to charge for their older games

[-] flork@lemy.lol 19 points 5 months ago

It's ridiculous. Yuzu is open source too so it's not like they can stop someone from forking it tomorrow anyway.

[-] Poggervania@kbin.social 17 points 5 months ago

So how long until Nintendo sues Nintendo for using a pirated version of Super Mario Bros on the Wii U Virtual Console emulator?

[-] WalrusByte@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

If Nintendo can prove that Yuzu is “primarily designed” to give people access to official Nintendo Switch games and has no other real use, Yuzu would indeed be in trouble.

What if people just started making games for the Yuzu engine?

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

Nintendo doesn’t deserve your time or money. Yes, that ruins my nostalgia & childhood too.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 points 5 months ago

If this succeeds, won’t it set a precedent making emulation of proprietary platforms in general illegal?

[-] flork@lemy.lol 3 points 5 months ago

It probably won't make it to court because the devs cant afford it. Nintendo knows this which is what makes their actions basically bullying. They wouldn't risk losing in court when they can bully projects into shutting down.

[-] Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

Perhaps but unless there's something different about Yuzu I don't understand, it would have to go against established precedent in the US. For example, I assume Yuzu isn't providing the BIOS so how could it be breaking the law? Reverse engineering (clean room) has always been legal because there's no copyright infringement of the software and thus how else would Nintendo be protected? Meta-copyright? A patent?

I think this is just them trying to screw Yuzu by making them not even attempt a fight in court. Will it stop it now? No. But perhaps Nintendo has a method that would stop Yuzu currently and is trying to kill them before they implement it.

[-] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

They are arguing that the sticking point is that it subverts the copyright protection measures.

But it still relies on users providing their own keys so that doesn't make much sense either.

[-] Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah I know but that's like blaming a copying machine for facilitating trade secrets because it copies the cipher text printed on paper. It doesn't decipher it. Someone still has to have the cipher key(s) but they're still blaming the copying machine.

[-] SigHunter@feddit.de 3 points 5 months ago

Well, now I won't buy a switch oled. Unsympathetic company

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