Comment by squigz
2 years ago
These are the same devs who thought profiting tens of thousands off this project was a smart idea, right?
2 years ago
These are the same devs who thought profiting tens of thousands off this project was a smart idea, right?
The profit has nothing to do with it. Bleem! was profit driven by design, for example. (Bleem! is also irrelevant being decided before the DMCA provisions came into effect.)
Is it a smart idea? No; but a profitable emulator should be just as legal as an unprofitable one. But where it involves breaking digital locks, as Nintendo may successfully demonstrate, the DMCA makes both illegal.
I think the bigger issue is that they were using a leaked copy of TOTK to develop their emulator and the Yuzu developers didn’t want that to come up in discovery so they settled
I would say the risk of Nintendo - or, really, any company - caring about an emulator goes up with the amount of money the devs are making from it.
In this case, insult was further compounded because of a prerelease leak of a Legend of Zelda title _and_ charging for early access to an update to make it playable with Yuzu.
That Yuzu reportedly has generally better performance than a Switch console couldn't have helped, either.
Making money and credible potential to eat into sales. A less litigious company would still have complained.
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