Comment by 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.
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.
Well, no, it never went to court.
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.
Problem is that was before DMCA. New law can override judicial precedent.
First, no it wasn’t.
Second, the DMCA has nothing in it that explicitly targets emulators. Now what some hardware makers have done is include some kind of cryptography and called it an anti-circumvention method, but that is a later phenomenon and the earlier attempts at this didn’t amount to much in most cases.
Third, the Yuzu Devs brought the wrath of Nintendo of America down upon them through means other than merely writing an emulator, in particular they were likely engaged in actual piracy. They probably knew they were cooked and chose to settle rather than go to trial.
So again, FUD. There’s been a lot of it everywhere on this specific topic, so quit spreading it around like so much manure to nurture Nintendo of America’s basic stance towards emulation. They can have their opinion, but it doesn’t overrule judicial precedent.
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We've been hearing that for decades, and we still out here emulating