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Nintendo is going after the developers of the open source switch emulator Yuzu (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Seriously what is this? Nintendo argues that by instructing users how to extract the prod.keys from their own switch the yuzu developers are essencially infringing on the DMCA.

So what? Now you can't even freely use your own property anymore because it goes against the design intentions of some big company that just want's to milk their users?

Nintendo goes directly after this argument in its lawsuit, arguing that buying a Switch game only means you "have Nintendo's authorization to play that single copy on an unmodified Nintendo Switch console."

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I fucking hate Nintendo buytI do like to pirate their games.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I fear regardless of the merits of the case, that Nintendo will just batter Yuzu with lawyers until they win.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

they will never win, it's an open source code, anyone can fork an re-distribute It, they can't realistically lawsuit tens of thousands of people, some of which sre totally incognito

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I wasn't suggesting the code would lose, I was suggesting the company would lose.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

So now in addition to "right to repair" we now need a "right to break" so companies can disappear off the planet if they try this shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

they (nintendo) could sell me their games any day, I'm waiting to give them my hard earned money. just gonna sit over here with my sustainable linux non e-waste silicon and look at my nice pile of money now, don't mind me 🥰

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Well that program is downloaded now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

wants* to milk their users

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

yes :)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

Maybe instead of going after a way to make switch games more accessible to people outside of your ecosystem, you should expand your ecosystem to include them.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Where do we donate for legal fees?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Patreon?

[+] [email protected] -18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's futile. You are no match against a multi national corporation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

GAMESTOP

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Give up, you are no match against the universe, time, gravity and other powers. Just end it. Why even bother continuing.

Could you stop with your nihilism?

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago

But he is right though. If Nintendo really wants it gone they'll just pull a sony-bleem. As long as there is no real regulation for this stuff, there is not much you can do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

a) Your license footer is really cool! I will start including it as well.

b) Aren't quotes a bit problematic, as you include them in your work? This one is probably fine, as you (quite artistically) paraphrased it but direct quotes would be a problem, right?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

a) 💖

b) I'm not entirely sure how quotes should work. I imagine that if you quote such licensed text immediately after, it's quite obvious who you're quoting. But if you quote it on some blog somewhere out in the interwebs, proper attribution must be given.
Newspapers do have to attribute whatever they quote (and if they're respectable, they will) because they're trying to earn money with it, but beyond that... no idea. I'm not a lawyer.
Good question though

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

IMO the license footer is a bit sovereign-citizen-y, and likely unenforceable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

You sure you don't want to keep your comments GPLv2-only?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think the Creative Commons would fail to apply to the source material, but using the source material should be fair use in almost every context on Lemmy.

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