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Yuzu developers agreed to pay $2.4 million in damages to Nintendo to settle their lawsuit (storage.courtlistener.com)

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

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Everyone in the emulation scene can breathe a sigh of relief.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Will Citra be affected?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Already gone.

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

Yes.

[+] [email protected] -11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Honestly the majority of people using Yuzu were pirating software. Nintendo knows it. Yuzu knows it. This is why they settled out of court. Downvote away, but we all know it's the truth. Good on Nintendo for putting a stop to it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But it has a legal use case that only the small percentage of users use it for, so it has to be legal to profit off of it!

This was always going to be the outcome once they monitized it. The reason dolphin is left alone is because it's FOSS.

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

What did they expect? You're running a high profile emulator even used publicly by massive streamers on a current gen system. On top of that Nintendo is the Disney of video games rabidly attacking anything unofficially using their IPs. The shocked Pikachu face by Yuzu pirates is hilarious. Sony would have done the exact same thing had a high profile PS5 emulator sprung into existence.

Y'all are fucking pirating. The simplest answer is always the correct one when it comes to people. This isn't a complex issue. Like it or not it made sense for Nintendo to shut it down.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

This makes me sad.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago

FOSS emulator developers need to learn that since the DMCA was passed, the state is hostile to them. It isn't fair and it doesn't matter that the Sony v Bleep lawsuit set precedence that emulators are legal because the DMCA is so vague that a judge can rule can rule it is impossible to legally emulate copy protected games. Developers need to start exclusively contributing and maintaining their projects through a pseudonym with no ties to their real identity or move to countries where shit like this doesn't happen.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 8 months ago

Fuck Nintendo. Get those repos duplicated.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Honest question: Where the hell are they gonna come up with 2.4 mil?

I have no clue how Yuzu as an organization is funded.

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

Nowhere? They will be bankrupt and shutdown the LLC. Whatever their LLC accounts has will go to Nintendo, and any other asset the same. But I doubt they had pretty much anything, maybe the latest Patreon payment and maybe some extra money to pay websites and maybe any office or similar if they rented anything.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I believe they take subscriptions for early release builds of the emulator.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I appreciate the straightforward answer, thanks!

But uh... fuck. This fucking sucks, Yuzu is basically dead now, they have to disband and take down their code.

If Yuzu lives it will only be pirate copies floating around, further development will... basically have to go underground more like game crackers, as this very settlement establishes that Nintendo will sue you into oblivion if you publicly work on this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it's pretty disappointing. I keep hearing people say it'll get forked and people will continue the work. All I can say is "lol."

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

It has apparently been rehosted as 'Nuzu' on github... but I wouldn't be surprised if that or any similar instance just gets taken down once it gets reasonably popular.

MSFT sure as shit doesnt want to get sued by Nintendo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh, you'll always be able to find a copy if you're willing to look for it. I will be very surprised if we see meaningful development again.

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

Yeah thats the main problem, significant development is likely to be crushed.

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