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Nintendo submit Yuzu DMCA request to Internet Archive (reddthat.com)

submitted 7 months ago by ardi60@reddthat.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] Cassa 46 points 7 months ago

there is nothing in Yuzu that Nintendo has copyright to. Emulators are also precedentially legal.

so yes, how dare they want "their" copyrighted material not "stolen"....

[-] azulavoir@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Isn't it the decryption keys? and also the fact that they used an unreleased leak of tears of the kingdom to playtest paywalled compatibility?

[-] Nawor3565 16 points 7 months ago

They don't actually provide decryption keys, the user has to either extract them from their own Switch or find them elsewhere online. However, it could be argued by Nintendo that using an unreleased game ROM for testing proves that the devs themselves were guilty of piracy, and were therefore somehow condoning the use of their emulator for piracy.

Either way, we won't know how well Nintendo's arguments would have held up in court, because the devs settled rather than fight it out.

[-] PatFussy@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

If it's not illegal then why did yuzu get shut down? Maybe you can represent yuzu against Nintendo, it'd be a slam dunk.

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 20 points 7 months ago

ask bleem who actually beat Sony in court but went bankrupt. its not about the legality, its about the wallet.

[-] Nawor3565 14 points 7 months ago

It was a settlement. The devs decided, for reasons that are not public, that it would be easier to just pay Nintendo some money and take down the emulator than to fight them in court. It's very possible (even likely) that they figured it would be more expensive to fight Nintendo's lawyers than to just pay a fixed amount up front.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

That's quite often the case with thee issues - it's simply a finance game by the player with the deep pockets - they can afford to effectively bankrupt a smaller player who may have done nothing wrong.