Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu

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Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu - Lemmy.World

Nintendo’s full case filing [https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/519627952648880128/1212141332412235787/1.pdf?ex=65f0c196&is=65de4c96&hm=b91e24f1c26e4fb3599891133c9058059e3df12ebeba2b79fd4c5ea7c12bba5e&] _____ https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1762576284817768457/ [https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1762576284817768457/] “NEW: Nintendo is suing the creators of popular Switch emulator Yuzu, saying their tech illegally circumvents Nintendo’s software encryption and facilitates piracy. Seeks damages for alleged violations and a shutdown of the emulator. Notes 1 million copies of Tears of the Kingdom downloaded prior to game’s release; says Yuzu’s Patreon support doubled during that time. Basically arguing that that is proof that Yuzu’s business model helps piracy flourish.”

Booo! Nintendo sucks! This was decided 30 years ago. Emulation is not illegal.
It’s good we are all clear, nintendo isn’t arguing that. They are arguing a case about copyright infringement and being in violation of the dmca

It is not illegal to make copies of games you own and play them on an emulator. That is what was decided by the courts. Nintendo is trying to make that illegal.

They’re using the DMCA to say that because Yuzu lets someone circumvent their encryption (which is illegal, but shouldn’t be), that’s the same as Yuzu circumventing their encryption.

That’s basically like saying VLC should be illegal because it has the capability of copying a DVD.

I love YUZU and it’s wonderful…

…but if they didn’t have a Patreon they’d have a better stance

You are being downvoted but reminder to everyone that the public Yuzu is way behind on updates and compatibility, they sell access the the most recent version via their patreon. Something that Ryujinx does not do, it purely is a donation and nothing more.

You can download and view the latest Yuzu source code for free and do practically whatever you want with it (GPLv3), including building and running it.

What paying via Patreon provides you is access to early access builds of the software. You’re paying for the convenience of them compiling the latest version of the software for you.

You can even get all the latest EA builds as .exe files on the Yuzu PineappleEA GitHub!
You can get all the latest Yuzu EA builds for free on their GitHub