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

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Why is "Nintendo of America Inc." in a different font?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Probably because it's a template and somebody copied and pasted without remembering to paste as plaintext

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Never give Nintendo money.

[–] [email protected] 166 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Since they're back at it again I have to jump onto my alt and re-share the fact that I totally backed up Yuzu's source code, their progress reports, their Github issues pages + pull requests, and all the latest available binaries right before it got taken off of Github. No illicit materials in my archive (ROMS/Firmwares/Keys). Freely available as a torrent.

https://lemmy.ml/post/12810167

Otherwise I wish the best of luck to the nascent Suyu project.

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[+] [email protected] -40 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How dare they want their copyrighted material not stolen

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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"....

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 17 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.

[+] [email protected] -22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Make a yuzu.su and host that shit in Russia.

Cs.rin.ru probably has builds on it anyways.

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Nintendo brass = scumbags. Trash corpo who hates its customers except for milking their money.

It is morally good to pirate all Nintendo products, crack all their hardware, and disparage all their advertising.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 7 months ago

ugh FUCK OFF Nintendo

[–] [email protected] 52 points 7 months ago

The fuck sticks at Nintendo would love to take everything Nintendo related down for "copyright" if they could on the Internet archive.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago

I think everyone should post Yuzu links on Twitter. The place doesn't have much moderation so it's perfect.

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