Comment by pipes

2 years ago

I thought this was going to be all Nintendo emulators, thankfully it is only yuzu (switch emulator) related.

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radicalbyte  2 years ago

They're DMCA'ing code they have no right to DMCA - it was released under a permissive OSS license. Sure they own the copyright but they also gave everyone a license to distribute it.

Adhering to these fraudulent DMCA requests endangers all of OSS.

  • TazeTSchnitzel  2 years ago

    Nintendo aren't using the DMCA takedown process for copyright-infringing material (the thing people normally mean by DMCA). They're sending letters to GitHub about how Yuzu is, in their view, a tool for circumvention of technological protection measures and therefore illegal in itself (under different provisions of the DMCA).

    • xg15  2 years ago

      Very good point.

      The whole "technical protection measures" clause is in my view the most atrocious part of the DMCA, more so than the actual copyright stuff - because this communicates that the state is not just ok with vendors using their devices against their own users but actively endorses and encourages it.

      This is basically the legal basis for Doctorow's "war on general computation".

  • Hamuko  2 years ago

    I've seen people post that the Yuzu devs had a Google Drive share that contained a bunch of pirate ROMs as well as a Nintendo Switch SDK, so it's possible that Yuzu did in fact have some Nintendo stuff in it.

langsoul-com  2 years ago

For now, Nintendo won the lawsuit against Yuzu, on grounds of piracy.

Given how most emulators can allow playing pirated games, the others might be next.

  • SllX  2 years ago

    Read up on Sony vs Connectix. This is basically FUD. Yuzu is cooked but that doesn’t mean all emulation of Nintendo consoles is.

    The Yuzu devs settled, and among the allegations in Nintendo’s filing was that they, the developers themselves, engaged in piracy.