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Nintendo is suing the developers of Switch emulator Yuzu (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is pretty disastrous, the things Nintendo is suing over are things that apply to pretty much all emulators, it would be a very dangerous precedent to set if Nintendo were to win this one

And even if they don't win, it's still very shit that they're even able to use lawsuits as a scare tactic, that they can ruin people's lives even without needing to win

Also, daily reminder that "piracy equals lost sales" is nothing but corporate propaganda, often it's the opposite actually:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/pirates-more-likely-to-pay-for-legal-content-choice-survey/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/evkmz7/study-again-shows-pirates-tend-to-be-the-biggest-buyers-of-legal-content

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Fortunately it's an open source project so even if Nintendo kills the little Yuzu company, the code lives on. It would definitely hurt continued development by the current team, but development could certainly continue, hosted on a server in some country that doesn't give a shit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Ryujinx will still exist, and is much more stable in my experience.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Not really sure who would continue developing it though, it would have to be someone who already knows enough to do so but isn't currently contributing, because the current developers almost certainly wouldn't risk continuing to do so if they lose